• Evotech@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    This is why they are actually profitable and roll out new features. Because they don’t spend time redesigning old shit every time they have a new design in mind.

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      13 hours ago

      there is a thing called shared front-end components, so each time you need to add a button on an interface, you don’t need to recreeate a new one and it looks consistent for the user. And Steam is known for being super slow at rolling out anything.

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      15 hours ago

      I thought it was because they made gambling open to minors and took 30% of all game sales

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          14 hours ago

          technically tf2 was the first loot box

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            9 hours ago

            Man, looked at my bank statement many years ago and noticed several little charges. A few cents here and a few cents there. The biggest one was maybe .80 cents.

            My son had fallen for some scam ran by a YouTuber and was buying and trading skins.

            I will say though, now that time has passed, some of those skins are worth insane amounts of money. I’d sell them if I wasn’t so stupid sentimental.

            My son got in trouble for doing that, but it still takes me back to a pleasant time when I look at the inventory.

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        13 hours ago

        Last time I said something similar people down voted my comment all the way lol