cough steam deck cough

Although it works out for these developers I hate that people can do this to avoid the full consequences of their actions.

Fair enough, I wasn’t intending to offend anyone.

If Matrix could compete on both a quality and inertia level I’d use it instead of Discord. I’ve spent many hours on IRC too. What matters is where the users are and I’d rather spend my time developing software, not doing admin.

Why are you so angry over an opinion different to your own?

I never said it’s never going to make it, I said I care about what works for the majority with the least amount of friction.

If you took that as a personal attack that’s on you.

The you’re free to use it, that’s the great thing about choice.

The article is wrong, you disrespect your users by forcing them to use a platform that they otherwise wouldn’t just to engage with you. Github isn’t free either, but the majority of us use it for free software too.

It could install itself and I still wouldn’t use it. Nobody I care about is on there and inertia is important too. This has been true since the dawn of real-time communications platforms and isn’t going to change either.

Any non-trivial support enquiries should be directed to log a bug report/formal support request regardless of the community platform you’re using. Discord isn’t any worse than IRC in this regard and we’ve been offering support via the latter forever.

Matrix sucks, that’s why most people won’t use it. I’m already giving my software away for free and providing free support for it, why would I want to take up even more of my free time running and maintaining a Matrix server as well?

Sure, I could use an already available Matrix server but I already have a Discord account, all my friends and contributors do as well and the entire thing is easy to set up and use, plus I’m already running the Discord client too.

On top of this, the argument about searchability is irrelevant. Projects have been giving support via IRC forever which has all the same problems. The best thing to do for any non-trivial support inquiries is to direct the user to lodge a support ticket and always has been.

Matrix just isn’t a compelling option, even if it had feature parity with Discord and was easier to use, it doesn’t have any real inertia anyway.

How long until this trickles down into the major distros?

It’s happenend with the AUR too.

Snaps however have a certain expectation that newer/inexperienced users should be able to trust them.

Those goalposts shift a lot. You are just guessing at this point despite the evidence being pretty much against any actual simulation happening.

What you call a “bug” everybody else sees as fake.

They literally didn’t implement a simulation, they simulated the simulation.

You’re just making excuses at this point.

No it wasn’t finished but they shipped it as a full priced finished game and deceived a lot of people.

They weren’t honest about the state of the simulation either, the UI updates as if there’s a full simulation running but it’s all magic fairy numbers to appear as if the simulation is functional. They faked it and just hoped nobody noticed.

It’s like releasing a factory game but you don’t have to link anything up to churn out products, instead you can just plop down the final stage factory and call it a day. This isn’t just unfinished, it’s deceitful and unacceptable.

Oh it’s fake.

The shops do not need to be connected to industry nor to residential or outside connections to function. It just fakes all of the commerce information.

The devs might call that a bug to save face, but it doesn’t mean they didn’t deliberately ship it like that.

I am a big fan of city building games and took a chance. Fuck me for wanting a new game to play after work I guess.

No Linux support won’t even be the worse thing about this game.

I sadly bought Cities: Skylines 2, a simulation game like this from the same publisher and they got caught faking the simulation in it.

Only seems fair if you don’t pay your bills.

Traitor.