The government hired so many employees in the last few years including tons of positions where they didn’t care about distance from an office until December 2022 (and that are now exempted from RTO)… I don’t think that argument has too much weight to it, people complain without trying to leave their current job, that’s why office workers don’t see as much gains but I can guarantee you, gains at the federal level has make impacts in the private sector in the Ottawa-Gatineau region because employers need to compete (a receptionist position for a small town paying 30$/h???). Make the public service as open to WFH as possible and now it’s employers from all over Canada that will need to compete with it for office jobs and those in the private sector should realize that!

I was happy to see the recent coverage by Radio-Canada/CBC about the TBS communications regarding the RTO options!

Passport applications that were processed by people that were working from the office and by teams that has been cut to the minimum number of employees possible by shipping people to other departments that were actually necessary during the peak of the pandemic!

All unions keep saying it, a gain for union jobs puts pressure on non union employers.

Also it’s the population’s money and time that’s being wasted by pushing for RTO, traffic in the Ottawa-Gatineau region increased so much since September 9th that public servants with other obligations aren’t able to work their regular schedule when they go to the office.

Have you seen the summer of discontent from the federal government over RTO?

Yeah, me neither

At the same time, both need to be done, your solution doesn’t solve the fact that it’s only a license you’re purchasing and you depend on a third party service to download the game in most cases.

Funny how you’re only using positive examples and not the reality for the majority of games…

Sure, because they don’t have any budget themselves…

Maybe NASA would have bothered if its funding hadn’t been cut again and again and again…

Yuuuup

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One employee is a multi billionaire, so no, it’s not a cooperative where the profit is split fairly between employees or redistributed to the customers/members.

That’s on publishers though, if Epic gets a smaller cut and the price is the same, the money is going somewhere.

That wasn’t the question, the question was “Given they’re provided the same set of features, why would anyone migrate?”

That would be true only if a company recreating the same product and improving on it would actually have a chance to compete, which isn’t the case. People refuse to have multiple launchers out of principle, having all your games in one place makes it so you don’t want to split your library so you keep buying from the same store (sometimes people even brag about paying more just to have a game on Steam instead of an alternative).

The only way to break that monopoly would be for a competitor to come and offer to recognize purchases made on Steam for games they offer on their own platform and to start with, at the minimum, everything that Steam offers and I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that’s completely unrealistic.

The only good monopoly is one where the profits goes back to the population or the customers.

If you think about the fact that he’s taking enough profit from every sales to pay his employees more than the industry average and to be a multi billionaire while his clients can barely afford a house or can’t afford one at all then the current CEO is already shit…

Fuck all billionaires.

In trying to switch to Linux but all the fucking around to make some games work gets tiring sometimes, enough that I don’t think I’ll ever switch completely because sometimes it’s nice to just install and play.

Never heard of that

People are saying in the 90s but I know we had a guy dressed as a terrorists with a brown face on Halloween day when I was in highschool back in 2002 and no one cared, but maybe it’s because slavery isn’t part of our history and that part of US culture hadn’t influenced us yet… These days people like to act like it wasn’t accepted for disguises around here 20 years ago even though it actually was. Hell, I know for a fact we even had some on TV after 2005 and no one cared…

If I want a unique wallpaper I go on a walk in the great outdoors and take a picture