AnneBonny

Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave nothing behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way.

Contrast that bubble with, say, cryptocurrency/NFTs, or the complex financial derivatives that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. These crises left behind very little reusable residue.

The 2008 financial crisis was not the result of a "tech" bubble.

well, I don't think battle.net is the worst launcher

Origin is still bad and so is whatever Ubisoft's launcher is called.

edit: for the record I didn't say that steam was the best launcher, but I have found the launchers for world of warships and warthunder to be serviceable

guilty dog barks first

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

Why is it so hard for companies to build a game launcher that doesn't suck? Is it just a lowest bidder situation?

if no one can hear you fart, no one knows who is responsible

I don't like artificial metrics constructed from other metrics without any explanation.

You just need some practice farting quietly.

'Jane Roe' is anonymous no more.

These people behind the times?

In 1994, McCorvey published her autobiography, I Am Roe.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_McCorvey#Anti-abortion_activism

Data: Hines analysis of Census Bureau and Moody's data; Note: Population demand is a theoretical housing demand metric based on long-term household formation and homeownership rates by age cohort; Chart: Axios Visuals

very scientific

Every change will bring it’s fair share of complainers

sometimes the complainers are right and sometimes they aren't

I have considered it.