games

this will sound like a meme, but this is just backporting quantum cryptography to data compression

which solving efficiently using traditional compute is genuinely impressive

also this will have limited impact on consumer AI (decode constrained by memory BW) and have zero effect on RAM prices (stocks are responding to Russia increasing the price of Helium-4)

actual gaming post

this is a cool change

the multivariable thing seems to screw over some countries

the GB pound one makes me feel iffy about it

making someone pay essentially 70 usd

I feel like this doesnt include the perspective that "hey its okay for them to pay 70 in their country because things are fucked"

the yen one for example

feels the most fair

it's weird that in some countries it fucks them over

and others it helps

if it was all like the yen one or closer

id be more ok with it

but it really fucks up some countries way too much

into paying like 20% more

which is insane

even if its "normal" for that country to do that

doesnt mean that its fine

its basically saying "because we all pay 20 dollars for a burger here, we're not going to notice our burger being 20 dollars"

I understand Valve have to (at least pretend to care) about 3rd world scams and keysales but honestly, just let devs charge nothing for most countries

S. America are the ones I know are the most fucked

because their "normal" prices are a joke

and everyone just buys from the black market

it works best for all those third world countries at the bottom

dand everything else it looks like it fucking sucks for

cad is still lower than for direct conversion, but not much lower

some of them just being higher is funny

if you could set it so that

if multi variable was higher than exchange rate

it picked exchange rate

otherwise multi variable

itd be perfect

Yeah taking the min of those two seems optimal imo

that way third world countries dont get screwed over

but

4th and 5th option for devs

actual real world countries

dont get fucked

min/max of all

s. Some developers may choose to use a mix of methods for their games or manually set prices for one or more currencies.

if they had an option to just straight up do it

itd be better

but i assume you have to like

manually go down the list

and flag each one