>Overwatch crawls to Steam like a beaten dog after repeated blunders
>Now Diablo 4 now even after a fricking year is crawling to Steam as well
>Gaben continues to win by doing fricking nothing
How the frick is he so powerful?
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*not even
>make a service that works
>just wait until all your greedy competitors frick their shit up
His master plan.
this.
the only thing the other companies have is exclusivity
It's like everyone else in the industry is too incompetent to compete
They don't want to get Dodge v. Forded out of the job.
Maximalise profits or else is more or less the law for public companies, valve never needed to go public since both it's founders were already multi millionaires when they founded it.
Preach
This, as much as we hate the greed of other companies, it's their duty as public traded companies to make as much money as humanly possible, or they get sued by their own investors. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Either way when they frick up we get to laugh.
There is a semi-loop hole to the dodge v ford thing, which is that you can do things that don't benefit the shareholders IF you have a justified reason to think it will be beneficial in the long term. But you need a controlling share in a company to even attempt something like that anyway.
Steam is just too lazy and slow
If you think Steam is lazy and slow, then what the frick is the Epic store? It lacks all basic functionalities.
I know absolute zero about programming/web design and I'm confident I could learn enough to make a far better program than EGS in less than a month.
GOG Galaxy is easier to use and cleaner. Steam has a bunch of social media features that take fricking 5 minutes to load if you have a ton of friends.
>if you have a ton of friends
imagine having friends
imagine using steam as a social network
I unironically prefer Bnet over Steam so kinda sucks it'll be retired.
It isn't like most of the corporations shit out braindead, overpriced garbage, no sane self-respecting human being will ever play, year after year, for more than a decade now, or anything...
>please, gimme your big, throbbing chinese spyware mining launcher, daddy, please
>i love it when daddy goes all unoptimized on me
Shame on you.
Forcing videogaming to be mainstream is the worst.
Bnet runs a lot better than Steam and its well designed for what its meant for its far from barebones Chinese spyware shit like Epic Launcher.
No, it didn't. The worst fricking piece of bloatware I've ever seen from a U.S. based company. It lagged as fricking hell and has over9000 bugs.
>be lizzard
>layoffs or some project?
>let's update the launcher for the millionth fricking time this year for NO reason. (outside of cancerous ads)
>release unstable version to the public
And you have to undestand that I don't like Steam, GoG, or any other bullshit either. I just want to click on a shortcut on my desktop and my game will launch offline without any bullshit or additional bloatware, whatsoever.
Besides, I know it's government's faults, but Steam does a poor job of satisfying the customers, because they ban and censor shitloads of different videyahgarmez, depending ofc on the country you're in. Easily checkable with a good VPN.
>be the first big digital storefront
>get people comfortable with the idea of digital distribution vs CDs
>now physical media on PC is nonexistent(and digital share of consoles is increasing by the day)
>people do not want to juggle a dozen store clients
Steam IS PC, and Steam is also exceptionally better than all alternatives that competitors struggle to get market share.
You can pirate most of the shit.
And this is why Steam won: they found a way to at least partially pirates solve the pirate problem.
How the frick do you beat someone who is used to competing against the idea of "you can get everything for free"?
It's kinda baffling that Timmy thought giving away games for free would work, when his main competitor has over a decade's experience combating just that.
This is actually a pretty smart point, and it's true. The convenience factor of steam makes it worth buying some games even if technically you can pirate.
>The convenience factor of steam makes it worth buying some games even if technically you can pirate.
Also the sales. PC gayming has become so cheap thanks to steam it's not even worth the hassle to pirate when you can buy 6 games for the price of one.
>It's kinda baffling that Timmy thought giving away games for free would work, when his main competitor has over a decade's experience combating just that.
kek, EGS lost even before its release
what timmy doesnt understand is that even if someone downloads epic for free games, there is nothing actually stopping that person from still using steam for everything else.
the core flaw with timmy's plan is the platform itself, steam is better in just about every metric, so people will prefer to use steam whenever possible.
this is how gaben (mostly) snuffed out game priacy when it comes to good games. its just better to use steam than to pirate. it has just about every feature you could need friend onsite reviews to a built in community.
epic in comparison is a shell of a platform, you cant even review games (you are instead fed critic scores) and the friends list is barely functional for actually keeping in touch.
No anon, you don't understand. All those Fortnite zoomers who got free games will suddenly start buying on EGS because of...reasons. Nevermind the fact it's been 5 years and Fortnite is on the decline. Two more weeks!
Honestly I think EGS could have worked. Fortnite did genuinely get a lot of kids into pc gaming, I think it was probably as popular as something like minecraft at it's peak. If you want to open up a games store it's a prime opportunity, you're not gonna immediately overtake steam but you could set up a legitimate competitor. The problem was that EGS just fricking sucks, and sucked even harder at launch.
Besides, Steam has already established itself for many players as the "hub" where they choose what to play. Many people will buy on Steam just because they want the game associated with their online persona, which has its own library, friends, achievments, etc.
This makes competition very difficult. GOG tried something interesting, a launcher that unifies Steam and GOG games, so you can see your playtime, achievements, etc., from Steam and also from GOG games, all in the same environment, but it doesn't work that well.
People downloaded and installed the Epic Games Store for those free games, which was arguably the hardest part. But no one stuck with it because, as you said, the service was shit and games weren't even cheaper. So why the frick would I ever buy a game on Epic when it costs the same on Steam.
>no one
>nobody
>100 of 0
xD
>>now physical media on PC is nonexistent(and digital share of consoles is increasing by the day)
This is true for all forms of media now a days you donut.
The PS5 comes with a model that doesn't even have a fricking disc tray, because whats the point?
Even before then games haven't been on CDs for years, you would just pop it in and have to do a day 1 50GB download because western devs can't optimize for shit.
Yeah I dont bother pirating anymore. I just wishlist on Steam and wait until its on sale. For Ubisoft games (guilty pleasure) I used their launcher since you can use points to get the games almost free on sales. Somehow it turns out the ubi points have an expiry date. Turned on the Ubistore and saw my points where gone. Deleted the client, will be buying their next game from Steam while also giving it a bad review even if I liked it.
lmao yeah, 10 years of "doing fricking nothing" (that nobody else was trying to do) before someone else thought "I could do that!"
Good luck, you greedy slime
How do you even get this working? Graphics cards can only support up to 3 or 4 monitors
Its truly amazing how big companies keep tripping over themselves in their greed trying to match steam.
Ebin game store is probably the most successful but afaik people just use it for free games alongside steam rather than as replacement.
Epic ran out of PC exclusivity money and chinks don't seem eager to pump more of that into them, so EGS is already dying, I guess.
>DA CHINKS!!!!!!!!!
not my problem amerimutt...
just give it a year or two and this dog will come crawling back too
Nah, Tim gets a lot of money from UE so he doesn't care that the games on EGS sell like shit
>fortnite crashing
>layoffs already started
tick tock, timmy
Fricking who?
Gravity.
by having steam as a private company so that he doesn't have to sucks the investisor's dick
everyone else is incompetent
More like everyone else is greedy while offering worse services with lesser features.
Steam has so many advantages
>The default option in the minds of consumers. When you think PC gaming you think Steam.
>All your friends have steam. If you want to play with your friends them having Steam makes it so much easier.
>All Valve games are exclusively on steam. Valve games are some of the primary reasons to play PC games in the first place.
>The majority of other stores are just actively worse
GOG is pretty much the only store that's better than Steam in terms of functions by actually giving you installers so you can properly own your games in the long term. But the majority of consumers don't give a shit about that.
The only thing I fear is what will happens to Steam when Gabe retires or dies of fricking heart disease.
I entirely forgot about GOG, they've been doing pretty well afaik though from what i heard they introduced some gay launcher thing which im not a big fan of as lack of any extra garbage besides an installer was one of their strengths imo.
>The only thing I fear is what will happens to Steam when Gabe retires or dies of fricking heart disease.
If Gape Newell dies and steam becomes the new EA/Activision/Whatever i'll just go back to pirating games tbh
gog galaxy is optional except for some multiplayer games I think
>I entirely forgot about GOG
And that's the problem.
I wouldn't be surprised if only like 5% of PC gamers know GOG exists.
Counterstrike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 are still 3 of the most played games in all of PC gaming. Chances are that if you're playing on PC you're playing at least ONE of these games.
>I wouldn't be surprised if only like 5% of PC gamers know GOG exists.
Whatfor? I know it exists, I'm not using it. The only reason I even give CDRP and GOG my money is precisely because for the titles I'm interested in, I need no bloatware. At all. I can just get an installer, run it, and the play the game without anything running in the background.
So let me ask you this, might this be part of the reason, Cyberpunk 2077, for example, seems to be such a greatly optimized piece of software? Is it really that super optimized to run on 10 year old CPU's in 2023 with 30 fps, or maybe, maybe, garbage fricking bloatware, like any launcher, is the source of evil for videogames?
I don't see what you're getting at but my old potato ass PC could run the steam version of Doom Eternal and the Resident Evil remakes just fine so I don't launchers matter.
My point for GOG not being competition for Steam is that barely anyone even knows GOG exists. Steam presence in the consumer's mind is just overwhelming. The existence of other storefronts doesn't even come to mind for most consumers.
Yes, you're right. My point is, it doesn't make the Steam too good. Rather it shows that the "gayyyming" community is inferior nowadays, with all the normies, journalists, and whatnot.
They were pushing GoG Galaxy (the launcher) pretty hard because it has official integrations with Xbawx and Epic, plus community integrations for other stores (e.g. Origin, Steam, Ubisoft Connect). This meant they had the all-in-one launcher that would let you access EVERYTHING from one program, but the reality was - and still is - that it's basically a glorified middle man. Want to play GoG games that you could just download the installer for? You need Galaxy running in the background. Want to play Steam/Epic/Etc games? Now you need Galaxy AND that launcher eating up RAM.
It didn't really take off because GoG fans don't want a launcher and everyone else doesn't give a shit about a slightly more convenient middle man, so updates have been fairly infrequent. The core idea was relatively solid but it just doesn't work well enough to persuade people to switch, plus 95%+ of PC gamers are barely aware that GoG exists let alone care enough to install their launcher.
As said you don't really need it though, offline installers are still available and honestly work better. There are probably a handful of games that rely on GoG back-end services that are running via Galaxy, but they're a tiny proportion of the library
>Valve games are some of the primary reasons to play PC games in the first place.
Oh shit did I accidentally time travel to 2010?
His son will take over and finally complete the steam brain interface they've been working on.
Pretty sure GOG leaked my credit card info.
>The only thing I fear is what will happens to Steam when Gabe retires or dies of fricking heart disease.
Gaben should be developing the Relic to pull a Saburo Arasaka.
Thats what their mysterious Artifact project was.
literally this
gog and steam are only good stores
buy old games on gog and new ones on steam
No, buy all games you can on GOG and only those unavailable there on Steam. If it's on both stores, GOG is by far the better choice (no DRM)
>The only thing I fear is what will happens to Steam when Gabe retires or dies of fricking heart disease.
Why do you think he's been working so hard on VR shit? He already talked about brain chips and uploading ones consciousness, his end game is clearly in sight.
>Valve games are some of the primary reasons to play PC games in the first place
Anon it's not the '90s anymore
That being said rest of your post is on point
>Laughs in Counter Strike 2, DOTA, and TF2
Still some of the biggest PC games. If you're on PC chances are you're playing one of these.
>GOG is pretty much the only store that's better than Steam in terms of functions by actually giving you installers so you can properly own your games in the long term
I don't think this is even a "win" for GoG. Yes, its more consumer friendly, but I have absolutely zero incentive to spend money on their platform.
>All Valve games are exclusively on steam. Valve games are some of the primary reasons to play PC games in the first place.
ALRIGHT NOW HOW DO WE STOP THE TWIN TOWERS FROM FALLING
>Gabe retires or dies of fricking heart disease
He's going to cavejohnson his brain, Gabe will never die.
>GOG is pretty much the only store that's better than Steam in terms of functions by actually giving you installers so you can properly own your games in the long term
As much credit as they deserve for that, I REALLY wouldn't say they're better in function than steam.
is there a way to stop steam from opening every time I click on a game when it isn't signed in?
Play games without DRM I guess?
That happens because the games still need to "verify" your install, usually with a simple number ID check.
They don't do "nothing", they're just doing a lot of un-flashy shit that you don't notice, under the hood. People rarely applaud a service for simply working, but that's exactly what they made Steam do. They've spent two decades making sure that crashes happen as rarely as possible.
Wanna play with a controller? Plug it in, it just werks.
Wanna be logged onto your account in your living room, your phone and your desktop at the same time? Just werks.
Wanna install shit remotely? Just click the button on your phone, just werks.
Your game doesn't werk for some reason? Go hit the steam forums, someone is guaranteed to have an answer, it'll just werk.
With all the features Steam has, it's kinda shocking how smooth it all works. And surprise surprise, that is how you win the market. Nothing pisses people off more than when the shit they paid money for doesn't work and they have to spend a lot of effort to fix it.
this is really it. gaben has said from the very beginning that piracy is a service problem and its true. its a pain in the ass to pirate games now because devs have gotten so used to push updates constantly because it works so well on steam. updating pirated games is annoying as frick, if you can even find the updates.
This has less to do with steam being convenient and more with constant updates becoming the norm. It effectively flips the other way -- piracy has a "service" problem of not enough people caring enough to upload/seed all these minor updates consistently, so Steam becomes much more convenient, if you care.
But Steam is fricking garbage that's been getting increasingly bloated, so at this rate more people might start to pirate again.
well before steam you had to go to a developers fricking website just to get updates often
Yeah, except back then it was more likely that the game on disc would just work, and devs weren't pushing out minor patches constantly. Instead of DLC you had expansions that would patch your game to the required version anyway.
>Yeah, except back then it was more likely that the game on disc would just work,
Ancient boomer here, lol no. Nothing sucked more than buying a game from Babbages, getting home, installing, and then getting a game stopping bug an hour in. I'm looking at you, Quest for Glory 4.
I just wish the UI wasn’t laggy bloatware written in javascript or whatever webdev toolkit
Yeah the shift+tab overlay could use a bit of work.
The library browser is a fricking nightmare. Especially on Steam Deck. I swear to god I get worse FPS browsing my game collection than playing games on the Deck. I swear it’s like the UI is written using old school window draws and has absolutely no GPU acceleration at all, which is utterly moronic
That sucks. Works fine on my PC luckily though.
It’s more responsive outside BPM but the image streaming for cover art is still pretty laggy. It doesn’t ruin the experience or anything it just makes you wonder why. If every game cover was a 2x2 quad with a 512x512 texture I could render thousands of them at a time at 120FPS but in the main browser you scroll down from one page of 30 to another page of 30 and wait 3 seconds while all the rectangles populate.
>2x2 quad
Not sure what I was going for there. Just quad. 2-tris. IDK what that 2x2 is about.
Yeah. This is only tangentially related, but the other day I checked the PSN store on my PS3 and jesus fricking christ. Not only does it take a full five second to load each page, but it doesn't even have a keyboard search function. You have to select each letter from a vertical, alphabetical grid.
Even with Steam's occasionally wonky functions, I don't think anyone can deny we've come a long way with storefronts.
iirc the old steam ui wasn't event-based so i wouldn't be surprised if the new one has the same problem
>Now Diablo 4 now even after a fricking year is crawling to Steam as well
What you talkin about willis?
Shit's been out for like 4 months. You got a fricked up clock if you think thats a year.
Long term steam will be dead. Microsoft wants to move Windows to exclusively run programs from an app store so Steam will have to pay to be on Windows.
Microsoft tried this in the past and got BTFO'd. Will never ever happen.
>Microsoft wants to move Windows to exclusively run programs from an app store
Let them do it. (not to mention it's impossible ofc, but let them try to force it). My complete switch to Linux is long overdue. Off the top of my head, Gaming is pretty much the only reason I use Windows at all.
>SteamOS
>Steam Deck
proton works so well now they could give Steam Machines another go
>proton works so well now they could give Steam Machines another go
Creating a PC-like console for $500 would be almost impossible for Valve. The Deck was already painful enough (Gabe's words), building a full fledged console with mainstream components would cost $800 at the very least.
>Creating a PC-like console for $500 would be almost impossible for Valve
Anon the Steam Deck, which was released 1.5 years ago, is as powerful as a PS4 in terms of specs and the cheapest version costs 400. The frick are you smoking?
You know laws and shit exist? That's why it took 2 years for Microsoft to even be able to buy Activision-Blizzard
There's now law stopping operating systems from only allowing programs to be installed through an app store. iOS has been doing it for 15 years.
They tried that once and it's a big reason why Steam started going so hard into Linux development.
>Windows to exclusively run programs from an app store so Steam will have to pay to be on Windows.
Lmao let them do it, it will be Unity 2.0
the long term play for steam is linux. Id happily jump to linux if I could just play all my games on there.
This. I only use Microshit Winblows because of games. At work I use Mac because corporations are israeliteBlack personfricks but for all other things at home I use Linux.
Same, next time I get a new PC or have to re-install my OS I'll give GNU/Linux another try. The 'eck showed me what's possible today.
You could just buy a cheap ssd, hook it up and dualboot linux on it if you want to try it out.
Which games you can't play yet? Do they happen to be here https://areweanticheatyet.com/?
Fortnite
my condolences
>steam launches Proton for desktop
>no bloat and spyware means every game runs smoother than ever
>microdick btfo again
Just remember, Microsofts eventual plan is to own Steam. Slowly but surely they'll do things that will harm Steam and cause it to lose money/customers until eventually selling to Microsoft seems like the better idea.
And just remember Ganker. You guys were cheering at this kind of behavior and think Microsoft should be able to do whatever it wants because they're in last place and can't possibly have any sort of monopoly in the video game industry (also frick snoy right??).
>t. seething snoy
>Ignoring the leaked emails that stated Microsofts long term plan is to financially harm both Nintendo and Steam so they have the opportunity to buy them
Your hatred for Sony has literally blinded you from everything else bad happening in the video game industry. Your hatred of Sony has made you unhinged as frick.
does that change the fact that you're a seething snoy
The same email that also said actually buying Nintendo will more or less never actually happen?
The same email that said through a 3rd party Microsoft have been buying Nintendo stocks for years now and once they own a large enough share they're going to start exerting pressure on them?
The Japanese government would block it if it ever came to that, discussing Nintendo is moot.
>Microsoft is a heckin good boy they don't try to invade spaces they're unwanted in and expand their market share, you're just a snoy
holy kek
it's laughable, Nintendo and Steam have die hard fans, the only way to bankrupt them is hunt down and kill those fans. Also gamepass is trash unless they have amazing game in it, they had their chance with Starfield, and turns out it's a steaming pile of garbage. The only good games in Gamepass is Forza
Steam isn't even publicly traded.
>Been warning people on the internet for over a fricking decade that going all digital and scrapping physical media is possibly the single dumbest trend that could ever take place, and it doesn't take more than 5 seconds of foresight to understand why.
>People ignore it, call me a schizo, or say, "If you lose your internet to some government coup, you have bigger problems to deal with, dude," as if they aren't doing it superficially for content/media control, and to siphon even more money out of you, and it could ONLY be an issue if some worldnwar were to take place.
>Fast forward to present day.
>Everyone panicking about "media preservation," now that streaming is the way and shows/movies/music/games are starting to be lost in the aether.
>Bring up that physical is the solution.
>Everyone scoffs and continues to scream into the void.
>Slowly but surely they'll do things that will harm Steam and cause it to lose money/customers
And how exactly are they gonna do that? Valve has invested a lot into Linux gaming development the last 10 years and the Steam Deck being Linux-based has shown that Valve is capable of completely detaching itself from Windows if the need arises.
>You guys were cheering at this kind of behavior
I was cheering for this kind of behavior with Activision/Blizzard because I want Microsoft and/or the current AAA game industry to implode.
>can't infiltrate and subvert it from the inside via the public trading system
>twist the economical landscape surrounding it
to cause damage
That's the equivalent of setting fire to the forests just to kill off a termite colony.
The only real threat microsoft poses to steam is through gamepass
that type of Walled Garden is something Gabe was already afraid of when Win8 came out.
He was also afraid enough of VR growing up in a Walled Garden environment that the moment Facebook gobbled up Oculus, his stance switched from "hey Oculus you're cool enough that we're handing you our VR research so we can focus on Steam Universe" to "frick, we quickly need to cobble together our own VR headset"
If there's anything that could kick Valve's ass into making Linux viable, it's Windows going full Walled Garden like you described.
I just hope it'll work to some appreciable extent, for everyone's sake.
Steam deep diving into linux would be cool.
SteamOS on deck is one of the few linux OSes that "just works" and I didn't have to open the command terminal just to do basic fricking tasks.
what is with corporations trying this moronic shit of being so insanely greedy they kill their own company?
Happened with unity
probably gonna happen with google's youtube if they keep pissing people off with this adblock shit
Its like every corpo got told to double profits NOW or be executed isis style
Read a bit about late stage capitalism. Then look at the world around you. Not saying Communism at any other kind of -ism is better, the point is that ultimately the people in power will exploit any system for their own profit, causing its fall. It's a neverending cycle.
Because there is no ceiling, corporations and shareholders demand infinite growth forever. They can never have "too much" money.
>Its like every corpo got told to double profits NOW or be executed isis style
thats pretty much it, all that matters is increased growth. linearity is not accepted.
>Its like every corpo got told to double profits NOW or be executed isis style
You can blame Dodge for instilling that mantra into the psyche. Ford had an idea and he was ostracized for even suggesting it.
Ford wouldve given his cars away for free if everyone went to his repair shop. No different than a subscription service
>Windows to exclusively run programs from an app store
It's too late at this point. It could've worked ten years ago (well, they tried and failed with Windows 8), but if they try to pull this shit now everyone is switching to Linux.
we are so fricked when he dies
I will just die with him
Right? Like you just KNOW they're going to frick it up. I really hope his son is as passionate about it as his dad.
Expect to see a modern day exodus the moment he croaks.
>Valve won by doing literally nothing at all
They really are in the money making business. They even managed to make millions off of a half assed engine port of a decade old game
Don't need to do anything when you can see the giant companies around you blundering themselves to death. You're actually in more danger by getting in the way of the explosion.
valve shill cope thread
What are we supposed to be coping about? Steam was, is and will be for foreseeable future 'the' PC gaming platform.
>be slightly competent
>automatically win by default because everyone else is moronic
He's unironically brilliant. He thinks so far ahead it's ridiculous. He's literally a visionary.
Literally just because valve are happy with what they have. They don't aggressively pursue constant growth or try to squeeze extra pennies out of their profit margins, they just run their service and slowly add new shit to it at their own pace and that makes them miles better than the competition, and because they jumped into this stuff so early they have a big enough market share that it's basically impossible to bully them out of the market with anti-competitive practices.
>and because they jumped into this stuff so early they have a big enough market share that it's basically impossible to bully them out of the market with anti-competitive practices.
That's arguably the biggest factor. A company like Valve trying to enter an a preexisting market probably wouldn't survive.
Bro who even uses Epic Games luncher
Tim is already planning his move to Steam. First he'll shut his store down and blame it on Steams monopoly.
Then he'll move his games to Steam.
Then he'll try and skip paying Steam their cut because 30% is too much.
Then when Steam removes or disables his games from the platform, he will sue them.
Microsoft will use any legal documents obtained from Steam during this lawsuit to guide their eventual strategy of buying Steam.
Timmy would commit sudoku before going to Steam.
fortnite streamers. not the regular players because they play on mobile or consoles.
Wow has lost so many players that the bnet store doesnt cover enough players anymore
Sure theres COD but COD heads wont buy Blizzard games, theyre already too busy being milked by COD
If people are smart they will refuse to buy it because a launcher is still needed
It's incredible that Valve are still such a lesser evil in this day and age, with their position they could be horrible tyrants.
Privately owned company run under the benevolence of Gaben himself instead of purely for maximizing infinite profits for israeli and Chinese investors on the board of executives. I hope his son isn't a moron and doesn't do something stupid like making the company go public.
>with their position they could be horrible tyrants.
They used to have one of the worst customer supports on the planet. The European Union has been pressuring Valve to do better for many years now.
Seriously. I was iffy on steam when it started, but it's "competition" has just made me support it fully after seeing what the alternatives could have been.
GFWL existed (a few years after steam started?) and everyone knew it was dogshit compared to Steam even back then.
wow look who it is, the inventor of lootcrates and how to turn games into gambling.
>stole tf2 over achievements.
>..people made modded maps to jet through achievements to unlock new weapons when they put them out, put behind stupid achievements
>throws hats in game ooh just for ~~*FUN*~~
>..people make modded maps to idle in that automatically move you so you dont get autokicked for idling in game so they can idle and get a free drop
how to ruin games creator tell us all about him
Lootcrates were created by a Chinese developer though, and it was EA to popularized them in the west.
but they didnt come out in tf2 they shoved them in them without asking but did it with theft.. which was blamed on achievement "theft" thats the worst thing you can do to a game. oh gee guess we can only stream games now so you cant "steal" it by using a gameshark, etc. like he isn't the one bringing in the nwo and you guys slurping up every drop of precum that drips out of his dick. god i hate you homosexuals so much
>zoomer has never played shitty korean online games
valve didn't invent shit
maple story aka the eternal LEAF did lootboxes first
Its Gay Ben you dipshits get it right
Its G.A.B.E.N at valvesoftware DOTCOM
Steam is so consolidated it doesnt matter what they do, it's a YouTube situation
Yeah it's impossible to beat Steam now as a store but game pass might start to eat away at them if it keeps growing
It's not impossible, you just need a lot of money, some time, and a bit of skilled work.
Epic has two out of three.
I'd rather have one spyware client slowing down my CPU than five for one game.
This guy has done so much to make games accessible to poor children in third world countries that he might as well be modern Santa Claus.
Except in the EU, of course, they've decided their poor countries must remain poor and suffering, like every good totalitarian regime.
Blame the EU
I mean I already did so in my post.
I apologize, I misread your post
As a former EU2 country, frick the EU. AAA games used to cost €40 here.
>Diablo 4 still doesnt have rebirth
Why the frick are they doing seasons when they dont even get the basics right?
>mmmh yes, obese unwashed dick mmmmhhh
Will I still need Battle.net or is it standalone? EA/Ubisoft games need their dumbass launcher even when sold on Steam.
The only corporation I trust is a corporation that does literally nothing.
If I ever meet someone who has used steam I will kill them. I equate them to pederasts but instead of only scarring kids for life they also erradicated all wonder from their life as well.
Stab until they aren't capeble of causing any more harm.
Most stable pajeet
So, does anyone know why exactly Valve has to restart all of Steam every Tuesday?
But what about Artifact?
I heard the FRICKED OVER the Artifact fanbase
Shit's crazy, man
Artiblart was a failed attempt at capitalizing on dotards by copying hearthstone, unfortunately they didnt realize that asshomosexuals autists dont care about card games
Simple. Gaben got there by listening to feedback and not being an evil, greedy israelite who has to please his shareholders bottom line.
The main perk of being a private company.
Epic Games is also private and controlled soley by Sweeney but they do have a major stakeholder in the form of Tencent, non-controlling I believe.
well, timmy is a fricking moron, and so is his company by extension.
And Tim Sweeney is a greedy pig and a moron. QED.
Battlenet isn't really that bad of a launcher, lightweight, efficient, it's just annoying to have a separate launcher to play a few games.
Epic Games Store on the other hand.. frick that shit and frick Sweeney for letting the random fluke of Fortnite BR think he actually had any acumen on leading a business.
The only two storefronts I use are Steam to play TF2 and itch.io for free gay furry games. I haven't bought a digital game on PC in at least 5 years.
>doing fricking nothing
He didn't "do nothing", he made Steam. And Steam gets better with each update, it's actually properly maintained and I have never once in my life had a single complaint about it. It works.
>steam gets better with each update
apart from the constant unneeded ui updates for the past 4 fricking years which keep getting progressively shittier
Seriously the gimmicky over stylized over designed UIs we're getting is the reason computers need 8 gigs of ram to just boot nowadays
No anon you don't get it, steam is much better now for having hover windows everywhere and 8 autoplaying videos on a single page.
the only thing I don't like about Steam is that unlike most other launchers, it lacks an automatically minimise to notification bar option for when you launch a game
>chuds mom/dad works 3 jobs
>also chud: COOPERATIONS ARE AWESOME! MONOPOLIES ARE GREAT! I REALLY HOPE THESE PEOPLE THAT FRICK ME IN THE ASS LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS!
????
But enough about Epic Games Store
>crawling to Steam
blizzard has never been on steam
they must be desperate for consumers if they are after steam monkey money
well, he didn't say crawling "back" to steam
>see a chinese guy asking people in the review section of some hentai game to add a chinese translation to the game
>check his profile
>over 800 hours played in under 2 weeks
>check his games
>most of his games have over 300 hours, some over a thousand.
>loads of hentai games, many in the same franchise suspiciously with the exact same amount of hours played
What does it mean? What did I just stumble upon?
farming playtime by afk'ing with the game open
But why?
A hopeless case of autism coupled with an unfortunate case of Chinese-ness
To sell it? Since valve are after smurfs it will be pretty obvious to find one without playtime in any game. Ever noticed accounts with 800 hours in one game and few others with 30-50?
Trading cards, probably
There's services that run like 30 of your games at the same time just to farm playtime.
>just to farm playtime
Why though?
I used it to farm cards. I then used another third-party program to auto-sell my entire inventory, easy €20.
Found it, some moron on my friends list was using it a few weeks ago: https://idlesteam.com/
Probably the unique son of some high ranking government official who doesn't have to worry about his social credit score and is free to coom all day.
>That profile
You stumbled on a chink gooner from the looks of things.
I don't buy the "he's selling/farming" thing if he's leaving reviews asking for Chinese translations, that dude just wants to nut.
>plays 5 hentai games on different monitors 24/7
The ultimate gooner
most fascinating thing i've seen in weeks
why the frick he do that
cards and badges, he's even displaying how many he has right there
>cards and badges
but WHY
is this the mythological fun-enjoyer i've heard so much about
is this a person who does things purely out of drive for a goal to accumulate satisfaction
it's never that simple
what is the chinese gooner's nefarious plan
That shows you how devoid of meaning some people's lives are.
>That avatar
I was literally in a CS2 game with 2 players with that exact same avatar.
what does it mean
the day Gaben die Steam will get worse and worse, you will see ads in your steam (26 millions daily users) so they will make billions from ads per year, worse sales, worse games, more bullshit, etc.
>827 hours while a week has only 168
hmm, that guy is breaking time
stop noticing things
>1 game running 24/7 for a week, 168 hours
>2 games running 24/7 for a week, 336 hours
>3 games running 24/7 for a week, 504 hours
Etc., you get the idea
>Be useless fat frick
>Have games platform that sucks rancid ass but its still the best one
>Release 0 in decades games, make some shitty remake of your most succesful one and frick it up tremendously
>Still fricking win
I despise this c**t
Why? You should despise the useless fricks who can't do better than him if he's so bad.
I had a dream a few nights ago that I met Gaben somewhere randomly and we talked and he liked me enough that he gave me a job at valve.
>we talked and he liked me enough that he gave me a job at valve.
that sounds like something gayben would do tbh
>daily epig steamie thread
m a z e d
Steam is cancer, buy an ad, c**ts.
Gaben wont live forever, you know?
Microsoft will buy steam and steam come pre-installed on each windows release after W12.
Gabens son will take over steam, he already has his own independent game studio.
By the time steam sells out you and I will be dead anyways, and the world will have much bigger issues beyond the complete global takeover of the video game space.
Valve is the best white boys. If it was not for steam and valve, PC gaming would be fricking trash.
And the steameck is the best handheld ever.
give it back, jamal
>overwatch
how does it feel playing 5v5?
how does it feel seeing your entire team die when you try to dive alone as the tank?
how does it feel being flamed by your teammates from the spawn room just because you picked Hammond?
how does it feel having loot boxes taken away from you?
how does it feel knowing Bobby Kotick singlehandedly ruined the game and will be walking away with a gigantic paycheck in his ass?
hopefully you're only playing overwatch 2 ironically
Diablo 4 is on steam? Holy frickin shit. What a disaster
Valve is privately owned, so there are no shareholders who can dictate to milk the platform to the detriment of their customers.
Has a company ever went back private after being public? Or is it literally not possible short of bankruptcy?
>Has a company ever went back private after being public?
Sure, famously and recently Twitter.
He isn't even powerful enough to get the steam.com domain.
Domains don't mean shit in the current age anyways. Nobody directly types a domain into the URL bar besides their search engine of choice.
Who remembers here how a lot of people were seething about the mandatory Steam install and internet connection before being able to play HL2 ? Who remembers the launch day mess because of course the servers couldn't handle all the traffic ? And now look at where Steam is. He's winning because he was the first to have the balls to really push for dematerialization, and commited fully to it. As long as no other platform gets better UI and catalog than Steam, it will stay number 1.
I member. Steam was fricking dogshit for such a long time, it works perfectly now comparatively.
Yeah but back then some people were still on 56k dial up internet.
The issue was more that a lot of people still didn't have internet at all. Internet cafes were still a thing back then, I used to play CS and other MP games a lot there. And most people were still against the whole idea of dematerialization, remember the Xbox 360 fiasco.
Yeah I didn't have internet at all and my friend bought Half Life 2 and we had to like dig through another friend's box of PC stuff for a 56k modem and borrow his dad's government dial up account lol
I hope you didn't had to do it at launch, shit was fricked. The servers were unusable for a day or two. Complete shitshow, tons of people were crying on forums about it. Luckily for valve the game was amazing so it saved their asses. Then came the migration of CS from WON to Steam. New player outrage and huge ahitstorm. Funnily they're still pushing the same kind of shit with CS2 but people will seemingly gobble anything coming out of valve's ass. They've won, simple as. Valve is the America of PC gaming.
Oh we did lol. It really was fricked and we had to wait hours, we actually wandered off to the arcade and played like DDR and fighting games all day then came back and played MTG and Yugioh.
>we actually wandered off to the arcade and played like DDR and fighting games all day then came back and played MTG and Yugioh.
Now you're making me feel melancholic anon. It was a better, simpler time.
This. This is what's killing the industry, and most of the western societies for that matter.
>stay private
>don t have to listen to israelites and their moronic israeli ideas
>it s a success
not that hard.
can directly sell games to chinses.
>YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR GAMES homosexuals moved on to MICROSOFT WILL BUY STEAM AND SHUT IT DOWN
Valve won, get over it already gays.
It's because Steam is a private company. If it were publicly traded there's no chance in hell it would be allowed to just tick over making consistent profits. Investors would force them to run it into the ground in the name of 'growth', which will happen when Gabe dies and some corporate blob absorbs the company.
>How the frick is he so powerful?
he's the last white man in the business and his enemies are ESL street shitters. He towers over them like an angry god.
>steamie und epig thread still up
unfathomably mazed
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