What do they hope to achieve with this?

Have you read the article ? Here’s two articles from the STJV website with their demands, translate at your convenience:

• https://www.stjv.fr/2025/02/gg25-greve-generale-du-jeu-video-quelles-revendications/

• https://www.stjv.fr/2025/01/gg25-greve-generale-du-jeu-video-pourquoi-pour-qui-comment/

It goes further than your oversimplification ; i don’t know where you live but in France workers have rights that they fought for thanks to unions and collective actions like these, and quality of output is not the sole metric to “deserve” just pay.

All good!

Steamdb mentioned it’s not a recent ban :

Valve has created a dedicated page describing that in-game ads or ad-based revenue models are not allowed in Steam games.

This has been reported as a new policy, but this has been the case for at least 5 years as seen on the pricing page, there just wasn’t a separate page.

https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lhsxkmaj7c2c

Overwatch moment

I think their “library” link is just a list of the content, and you have to go to https://archive.gamehistory.org/ to actually access the content

We are taking this opportunity between full development cycles to reimagine how we work at BioWare.

Given this stage of development, we don’t require support from the full studio. We have incredible talent here at BioWare, and so we have worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues with other teams at EA that had open roles that were a strong fit.

Today’s news will see BioWare become a more agile, focused studio that produces unforgettable RPGs.

https://blog.bioware.com/2025/01/29/bioware-studio-update/

Look how that turned out lol

As far as I remember, I’ve never bought anything in my life that I couldn’t enjoy immediately after payment (not counting delivery time if it had to be ordered and shipped). I did buy early access games, or games at full price on release day (twice only, Overwatch and Baldur’s Gate 3), though.

Boost / Sync for Lemmy

In french, Jonathan sounds like ‘jaune attend’ (yellow waits)

What’s yellow, and waiting? Jonathan.

e: i promise it’s not racist

Clean a little every day, clean a lot on Saturday morning

Sodium bicarbonate and white vinegar is super good

No it’s illegal!

Katana Zero did it for me

Infinite forest for Destiny 2’s Halloween event did it as well

Trackmania sometimes does it

Super Hexagon too

It seems to me that the game was laughed at on release (the whole walking delivery simulator thing), and it needed time to be praised for its innovations by people, it’s really weird and I don’t have a good enough memory to remember similar change in public opinion for other games

Game of the Year : not sure yet what to pick

VR Game of the Year : Metro Awakening, I don’t have a headset but it looks like a great adaptation in the Metro franchise

Labor of Love : Deep Rock Galactic, this time for sure they’ll win 🤡

Best Game on Steam Deck : Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

Better With Friends : Helldivers 2

Outstanding Visual Style : not sure yet

Most Innovative Gameplay : not sure yet

Best Game You Suck At : Balatro

Best Sountrack : not sure yet

Outstanding Story Rich Game : not sure yet

Sit Back and Relax : Tiny Glade

Hell yeah, it’s quickly become my favourite game to play, it’s just so much fun, joining !

PCGamer really hates doing journalism mhm ? You have to figure out which link goes back to the actual article about the mentioned report, and then find which link directly goes to the report : https://www.adl.org/resources/report/steam-powered-hate-top-gaming-site-rife-extremism-antisemitism

The full report actually provides a lot more information and answers some legitimate questions, and other ignorant comments raised in here, there’s an entire appendix about their method and how they fine tuned an ai model to review 150+ million profile pictures / 600+ million comments

There’s also interesting info about the customization of Steam profile, which I don’t remember Steam publicly sharing :

At the time of data collection, Steam Community had 458.32 million users. Of these, 418.4 million were public profiles and 39.68 million were private profiles (even if a profile was private, there was certain related information that was publicly available).

Many of Steam Community’s 458.32 million users have not customized their accounts extensively. Only 7.4% of public profiles have a summary, Steam Community’s equivalent of a social media bio. 41.8% of profiles use Steam community’s default profile picture, making it the most common avatar on Steam, present on 191.2 million profiles.

Most Steam Community users are also not particularly active. One proxy for activity is player level, which users can increase by activities such as buying games or collecting trading cards while playing games on Steam. Among the 91.69% of Steam Community users who publicize their level, the average level is 2.8 and the median level is 0.0 (the maximum level observed was 5,001). Our detections should be interpreted with this context in mind.

I mean that’s one of life’s main lesson, right ? You can be nice, invested, do everything right, and still fail

Set up a strike fund