The fact that AutoCAD needs tutorials like this is a bit of a UX smell for AutoCAD itself…

But regardless, to echo someone else, I would suggest aiming at corporations. On a personal level, I would just use YouTube videos for free, and quite frankly would invest my time in learning something open source like Blender rather than something closed like AutoCAD or Fusion.

I started my programming career teaching myself to script and code to write tools to automate large aspect of my electrical engineering job. Eventually I hit the point, where my tools were getting huge and complicated and I realized that my professional software skills were lacking and I couldn’t just keep producing this untested spaghetti code and hope to actually get things done in manageable way.

I then left for the world of professional software engineering, and in the time since, I’ve seen two companies that actually build software properly, and three companies producing worse code with worse practices than my self taught code from years ago.

Quite frankly the world of software development is downright embarassing to work in at times. I don’t think we necessarily need to gatekeep software development with engineering degrees, but I do think that all developers should be required to take engineering ethics courses to understand their own responsibilities to push back and say no, this is not done and shippable until it’s properly built and documented.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Valve literally hosts petabytes of game data and allows any user to download them at any time. That’s not nothing, data storage is

No, it’s really not. Azure and AWS storage is dirt cheap, especially if it’s cold storage and you can have a second or two delay when retrieving the file. If it was expensive, they wouldn’t be the most profitable tech company per employee.

Steam has so many backend features that allow devs to skip so many networking steps that can otherwise be a huge nightmare.

No, it doesn’t. It provides a small handful of APIs around friends and matchmaking, which Xbox and Epic also provide for half the fees, in addition to the generic Azure and AWS versions.

Not sure why you think they are literally just a webpage that has a purchase button next to a game.

I’m a software engineer whos built both an app store and 3d rendering engines. I know exactly how little work it took Valve to build Steam and how much work it took Epic to build Unreal.

They are not remotely comparable. Gamers are just lemmings who love Valve cause everyone loves Valve and talks about Valve, when in reality Valve has overcharged and ripped them off for decades.

for building most of those games

providing an engine does not build the game.

Well good thing I said “most” of a game. Go ahead and write your game logic and then tell me how you get it to render graphics on a screen without any engine code.

Valve has recieved 30% for doing fuck all. Why are you so adamantly defending them?

I’m not defending valve, I’m attacking epic

Yeah, in the context of a discussion about whether or not Valve is overcharging customers.

Jesus Christ, keep up.

Yeah, for building most of those games. Valve has recieved 30% for doing fuck all. Why are you so adamantly defending them?

If you’re building a game, and you build it on Unreal engine, so it’s handling literally all of the rendering, development tooling, animation engine, game logic engine, etc. etc. you’ll pay Epic a smaller percentage than you’ll pay Valve for hosting your exe file in cloud storage with some reviews and comments.

Think 5% vs 30%.

Given that they offer half the fees of Valve, it’s more like 'we don’t want to keep having to pay Valve 30% of our entire Revenue on every game we want to sell when we can make a profit running a store that charged half as much.

Lowering fees would have resulted in everyone liking them even more.

You’re thinking of revenue, not profit. Profit is revenue minus costs.

So is your solution to have Valve hire more people and be less profitable? That would justify their fees?

No, they should have charged lower fees.

You talk like a shill.

You’re literally defending a billionaire who made his money overcharging gamers for decades.

Because per employee, Valve is one of the most profitable tech companies ever. That means they charged far higher fees than their costs.

Oh yeah, let’s all repeat the playbook of GoG, first you just have to spend a decade establishing yourself as the only publisher able to get former Soviet gamers to pay for games rather than pirate them, then turn that trust that you built with two third party developers into a storefront selling their classic titles for them for 6 years, then use your established customer base and goodwill to try and transition into being a proper AAA storefront.

Totally viable business strategy /s

Another thread where gamers praise Valve for ripping them off for years, and think Tim Sweeney is the devil for trying to break into the market.

Valve never had to because they established a monopoly so developers did that on their own without Valve paying them. Meanwhile Valve has ripped off the entire gaming industry for its entire existence, charging absurd fees to gamers and developers and you guys are all so bought into their monopoly that you blindly praise them for it.

Gabe Newell is a billionaire. No billionaire earned their money. Every billionaire exploited people for it.

The epic launcher is exact as spyware filled as the steam launcher.

Lmfao, says the guy who immediately devolved the discussion to ‘youre defending a pedophile’, when I suggested that a world wide conspiracy might not exist.

Keep insisting that a cabal is putting you down specifically, I’m sure it’s easier to accept than you just kind of sucking as a person.

Oh wow, an edge lord on the internet called me a pedophile billionaire apologist, how original, what keen intellect, what honest discussion.

Quote the exact words where I called children prostitutes. Don’t worry, reading comprehension is a learned skill, but we can get there.

Please quote where I said it was ok.