because he doesn't give us half life 3.
also DRM sucks and bunch of steam games don't work. GOG has no DRM, you download the game and you'll forever have it and they make sure the games on GOG actually run while steam doesn't give a frick. GOG is just the better service so no idea why everyone shills Steam but no GOG shill. I pirate all my games.
>you download the game and you'll forever have it
multiplayer games, servers, netcode?
Also you have to archive them yourself. >DRM sucks
Steam doesn't force you to use DRM outside of Steam, also big Publisher will never release their games without DRM >I pirate all my games >amazed that DRM exists
I can't blame him tbh. He probably new the vidya industry would become the shitfest that it was today and saw that it's just not worth it to make another Half life.
>that also makes video games occasionally when they're bored.
that's not how game development works, you don't just get bored and decide to frick around with a multi year workflow involving hundreds of people.
Good by modern standards because he never went completely evil. Imagine steam but owned by facebook and you can kinda get the idea of what that would look like. As soon as he dies steam users are fricked.
Because the alternative to Steam was a platform where you own nothing. Because he got in early and set a standard for how PC games are digitally distributed you aren't paying a monthly fee to keep games you love. And don't act like this wouldn't have happened because it ended up happening with every other media industry. Digital platforms where you own nothing and have no control over the content. Steam is far from perfect but it's better than all the alternatives.
>Because the alternative to Steam was a platform where you own nothing
On Steam you own nothing too. In the eula on Steam it says as such. Access to your games may be restricted at any time for any reason. And it has happened to some people who have got banned.
GabeN only cares about your money, but won't go out of his way to dick you out of it. Instead he will entice you and seduce you with good deals, and you will want to give it to him.
He's a "good guy" only by relative standars, but it's because his basic attitude is one of staying hands-off (often to a fault) and letting the users use his service how they want within fairly generous limits unless and until some hustler looking to game the system or plain edgy Black personhomosexuals insist on forcing his hand to step in and introduce more rigid limits.
In retrospect, he probably did more good than harm with Steam.
Imagine if a company such as EA started the whole digital distribution hype instead of him.
>So, why is he the good guy again?
He hates Microsoft. That for me makes him a shining god. I like Phil Spencer and it genuinely shocks me that Microsoft hasn't replaced Phil with a 'yes man'. Microsoft want to rape and kill you and everyone you know. Microsoft are one of the most evil companies (tied with apple) in existence.
Frick Microsoft, the only good things they've ever done in their lives is W95, WXP, W7 and One Note. Every other thing they've every done from gaming to the computer industry have been pure poison and all they truly care about is raping your face with a burning iron wiener.
t. IT Support butthole who is only employed cause Microsoft are incompetent at building quality software.
I look foward to your xbot posts telling me
B-B-BUT SNOY MUCH WORSE!
because he made buying and acquiring vidya easier than ever before in a time where games, if they even came out on PC, still had to be bought from a brick and mortar store.
Why would he be a bad guy?
because he doesn't give us half life 3.
also DRM sucks and bunch of steam games don't work. GOG has no DRM, you download the game and you'll forever have it and they make sure the games on GOG actually run while steam doesn't give a frick. GOG is just the better service so no idea why everyone shills Steam but no GOG shill. I pirate all my games.
Steam doesn't mandate DRM. You can publish your game without any DRM.
>you download the game and you'll forever have it
multiplayer games, servers, netcode?
Also you have to archive them yourself.
>DRM sucks
Steam doesn't force you to use DRM outside of Steam, also big Publisher will never release their games without DRM
>I pirate all my games
>amazed that DRM exists
>multiplayer games, servers, netcode?
remember when games let you host your own servers? glad we got rid of that antiquated system haha
Ya'll gotta stop thinking as Valve as a video game company. They're a tech company that also makes video games occasionally when they're bored.
Gabe stopped giving a frick about it all a while ago, I guarantee he's just chillin on his billion dollars.
I can't blame him tbh. He probably new the vidya industry would become the shitfest that it was today and saw that it's just not worth it to make another Half life.
>that also makes video games occasionally when they're bored.
that's not how game development works, you don't just get bored and decide to frick around with a multi year workflow involving hundreds of people.
I care more about their work on proton and the steam controller than any videogames they may of made
>They're a tech company
pretty much. gaben is obsessed with vr but at least its for video games. shame about steam controller getting patent trolled.
um cause i loooooove half life 🙂
Good by modern standards because he never went completely evil. Imagine steam but owned by facebook and you can kinda get the idea of what that would look like. As soon as he dies steam users are fricked.
Because he created Valve that changed game industry forever
>loot boxes
>stores in video games
ye he changed it.
Again?
Because the alternative to Steam was a platform where you own nothing. Because he got in early and set a standard for how PC games are digitally distributed you aren't paying a monthly fee to keep games you love. And don't act like this wouldn't have happened because it ended up happening with every other media industry. Digital platforms where you own nothing and have no control over the content. Steam is far from perfect but it's better than all the alternatives.
>Because the alternative to Steam was a platform where you own nothing
On Steam you own nothing too. In the eula on Steam it says as such. Access to your games may be restricted at any time for any reason. And it has happened to some people who have got banned.
Damn, he finally lost weight. Good for him.
GabeN only cares about your money, but won't go out of his way to dick you out of it. Instead he will entice you and seduce you with good deals, and you will want to give it to him.
At a time when all the PC game developers were moving to consoles he kept their game meant for PC.
he and we believe in open source, modularity, and video games 🙂
He's a "good guy" only by relative standars, but it's because his basic attitude is one of staying hands-off (often to a fault) and letting the users use his service how they want within fairly generous limits unless and until some hustler looking to game the system or plain edgy Black personhomosexuals insist on forcing his hand to step in and introduce more rigid limits.
>gets interviewed on ausgay tv
>nobody knew who the frick he was
lel
his most outstanding feature is that he would have been one of the top 5 richest men in the country
He was fashionably late to a supervillain party
In retrospect, he probably did more good than harm with Steam.
Imagine if a company such as EA started the whole digital distribution hype instead of him.
This tbh. Valve might suck, but at least they're lazy and not outright malicious like EA, MS or Epic.
he seeks to dethrone windows
>So, why is he the good guy again?
He hates Microsoft. That for me makes him a shining god. I like Phil Spencer and it genuinely shocks me that Microsoft hasn't replaced Phil with a 'yes man'. Microsoft want to rape and kill you and everyone you know. Microsoft are one of the most evil companies (tied with apple) in existence.
Frick Microsoft, the only good things they've ever done in their lives is W95, WXP, W7 and One Note. Every other thing they've every done from gaming to the computer industry have been pure poison and all they truly care about is raping your face with a burning iron wiener.
t. IT Support butthole who is only employed cause Microsoft are incompetent at building quality software.
I look foward to your xbot posts telling me
B-B-BUT SNOY MUCH WORSE!
I have a Switch, PS5 and a PC.
FRICK MICROSOFT!
The only bad thing they're doing is allowing trannies from campo santo to ban Japanese games from steam for no reason.
Because he is and was right in everything, and still pro-consumer.
Because he is wise and worships the mighty penguin(Linux) god. Like you all will sooner or later.
he turned into the Dude
because he made buying and acquiring vidya easier than ever before in a time where games, if they even came out on PC, still had to be bought from a brick and mortar store.
The day Gabe Newell dies is the day world hunger is solved.
gabe looks like a leader of some cult
unironically pc gaming would be next to dead if steam didn't exist.
He lived long enough as the hero.
Anyone remember that huge poster with greetings from anons here, including myself, that was sent to him? Good times