Wanderer

Yeah smells a lot like them. Throwing Chinese money away to force a "monopoly" shift didn't work and everyone saw through their practice. Loosing bribed companies left and right (Ubislob and Scam Enix for example). They are desperate and they know they cant count on Fortnite or Tencent forever.

The Valve typical silence treatment worked wonders on Swiney's mind.

Now I can not buy it on Steam. :)

And inventor of predatory monetization. . . I mean "convenience purchases" in singleplayer games.

I hope you've read the news that two Volvo devs are speeding up the Wayland development. :)

I was hoping to see this comment!

Go watch the newest Dungeon Soup video, for extra Easter eggs enable subtitles.

The devs from Tango who worked on Hi-Fi Rush are now working for Valve on Deadlock.

So all in all a worthless article.

The App Lounge from /e/OS has access to the play store if you choose to log in to Google. It is possible (but not recommended because of a possible ban) to purchase stuff, I haven't done that yet, but some apps want to talk to Google to see if it was purchased and that gives an error.

For example, Wavelet can't unlock paid status, All-In-One Calculator gives the option to link an email so it can restore paid status, Nova Launcher uses a different app to restore paid status so it works as well.

Piracy is a byproduct of a bad service. If I pay for a product I shouldn't be locked to a specific hardware or operating system and those issues are resolved with piracy.

They probably blame piracy again for their loss in profits instead of throwing out those woke activists and listening to what their actual customers want.

Probably because its the most selling hardware they produce.