I...I don't get it. Why is Valve being so....kind to us? Companies don't do that. Is it a trick? Subscription service or always online daily check in thing? I....what are they doing?
>>725793543>zoomer discovering a brief glimpse of what things were like 20 years ago
>Zoomers have never experienced what it's like for a company to actually care about youHush child. You are safe here...
They're laying the groundwork for what comes next once Gaben retire. And you're not going to like it.
>>725793543they're privately owned.
>>725793543why dont these niggers make steam library sharing lenient then?
>>725793543is this actually a good idea? are SD cards fast enough nowadays?
>>725793543Some people want to make games so they can be a billionaire. Gabe wanted to become a billionaire so he could enjoy games.
>Gamecards if good
>>725793676>Steam library sharingYou're literally on a PC. Just pirate it fag
You guys know this would work with or without Valve's """permission""" right?
>>725793641I know Gabes kid is a racecar driver. I hope Gabe is teaching him well about Valve and what it means to him. We need someone with the same views as Gabe in charge. I really don't think people realize just how great Steam is right now. It's the single best thing in all of gaming.
>>725793762Snoys getting scared already eh?Kek, don't flatter yourself. You're not even a player
>>725793543That's actually a really neat feature. I mean I have high speed internet on my phone and a bajillion gigs of gata banked but still, neat. Also if you connect two steam devices on the same network steam can detect that one device has game data and automatically streams it to the other when you hit download. We've come a long way from the says of having to create system links to shuffle and move our stream library around.
>>725793676>Make account in a country with shit GDP.>Buy games for literal US pennies.>Share games with your main.Geez I wonder why.
>>725793543Wow, you can move files between PCs using microSD cards, truly amazing. Next you'll tell me you can do that with USB drives too.
>>725793941You lost eric
>>725793762and other companies would include firmware to brick your cube if you did so
>>725793543>Is it a trick?It's what' they call win/win. see>Saves downloading them all againThis saves Valve money in the long run.As a side bonus, it also increases the "value" in being a Steam customer. Something that Epic, Microsoft, and Amazon simply don't understand is that by giving customers what they want, they become loyal customers. By adding this feature it makes it harder for other game stores to compete, which I'm sure they'll bitch and moan about later saying Valve is a monopoly because they treat customers well
>>725793543>I...I don't get it. Why is Valve being so....kind to us?They need reasons for people to actually buy the fucking thing.
>>725794187If people bought deck, there's no reason to think they won't buy this.
>>725793762companies dedicate entire departments to try to forcibly stop this type of freedom
>>725793868Unironically nothing wrong with this though its basic economics
>>725793676Family share is extremely generous, don't even need to be same household.
>>725793771Gaben just rides his yachts around all day. He's not even associated with any of this stuff. We don't even get appearances from him once but every 3-5 years. We've been in the post-Gaben decline for almost a decade.
You know, full sized SD cards existed for the purpose of shuffling data between machines; micro SD obviously traded that practicality for hidden persistent storage.
Steam already transfers data between computers on the network so this is pointless.
>>725793543You don't own shit, they're just trying to suck dick and gain free PR from retards
>>725794331Exactly.I'm sharing my library with people on two different continents and never had any issues
>>725793868They don’t even allow “family sharing” if the family member doesn’t live in the same house.
>>7257937712025 Winner of the "Most obvious Pantone 448 C"-Post award.
>>725794331I thought you needed to share the same billing address or some shit. At least that's the error they had thrown at me when I tried it some time ago.
>>725793543steam was super convenient compared to alternatives before they had the majority marketshare
>>725794331>>725794452why are you lying on the internet?
>>725794153wasn't there some setup where you could share the same game throught wi-fi so you wouldn't need to download it all over again on another device in the same network?
The load times though
>>725793637I remember when warhammer had tutorials on how to build vehicles out of garbage. Now I can buy it for $100...
>>725793762*removes sd card slot*what now empowered consumer
>>725793762So? It adds to authenticity that the guy in charge is saying its ok. It just shows you that it isnt some loop hole being exploited that will be patched
>>725793543>hurr you can move files between pc's durr?Jesus fucking christ you consolekids really are retarded cucks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/
>kindProbably because selling consoles or even their own games are not their primary revenue stream, running a storefront and lootboxes are.I don't mind this business model, but you can't expect other companies who don't have a monopoly and a top revenue generating gacha game to do this.
>>725793543>Never leave our ecosystem>It's so convenient (for us)
>>725795114You'd have no chance of removing my "SD card" from your "SD card slot" is what now, retarded bitchass.
>>725793543To have an excuse for selling you less storage
i'd let gabe gape my sd card slot with his gargantuan deck if you know what i mean
Xbox has had that with SSDs since last gen
>>725794889"household" is their term, nothing about that invalidates anything they said about how it actually works
>>725793543it makes way more sense then downloading and installing all 3 devices
>>725793543They make money off of sales, not ads. So all they have to do is dangle Steam sales in front of you to make shit loads of money. This box makes you more likely to buy more Steam games, so it doesn't need any telemetry or anything else.
>>725795692Too bad the internal nvme is locked to what they approve. Valve isn't doing that with their Steam Machine.
>>725795451They literally just did with Nintendo forcing you to use a specific SD card on the switch 2
>>725794417Yawn>Looks at 15 year old steam library that I started in 2010Remind me how many new consoles and upgrade editions have you had to purchase since then so you can keep playing games on your console?
>>725795540You don't need anymore than 512gb at a time>BUT MODERN GAMES-are fucking shit and if you seriously are whining that you can't download the latest 300gb CoD to play you're the problem with this industry
>>725795885First of all, why the FUCK are you tweeting me? 2nd, we're talking about PC shit not Nintendos.Lastly, shut the FUCK up.
>household (noun)>those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family>a social unit composed of those living together in the same dwellingWhen Valve says household they mean household
>>725796136>TweetingOh my bad, I thought you were pretending to be retarded, not an actual double digit IQ loser
Bro the japs already do this with USBs
>>725793771Settle down faggot, Gabe is a fat fuck that peddles a blaoaware renting store
>>725793639is it true he is single handedly holding back the enshitification of pc gaming?
>>725796090It's advertised as a PC as well, so it would be primarily for storing porn and anime
>>725796358Nope. We have another warrior
>>725795868last gen games work with any SSD
>>725796412>already colluding with jewgle to fuck over everyone else
>>725793543The glory of being a privately owned corporation, is that there's no out-of-touch executives breathing down your neck about what would make the shareholders happier, you just say "Let's do this", and... you just do it.
>>725796358Yes.
>>725793771>We need someone with the same views as Gabe in charge.You mean a pants-shitting level of hatred towards Japanese games? No thanks.
Beeitch I'll keep them installed on each machine, tyvm
>>725796827Steam is the reason why basically every japanese game is now on PC, retard.
>>725796412>he offered me free candy and therefore has my best interests in mindliterally you could not pick anyone more anti-speech, more corporate, and anti-consumer than this guy. He's owned by disney and the chinese. He is working to monopolize the games industry with his bloated engine and you are delusional if you think his pursuit of market majority has any goal but squeezing out more money for his shareholders.Valve has blown their dick off in front of the customer less than anyone else in 30 years and I have no reason to believe they would start now just because another company thinks they deserve a bigger piece of the pie
>>725796427Those are the troons. He needs to let them go, but because Valve's in Washington, it'll just be a repeat. Doesn't help their European location is in Germany either.
>>725797184Fuck >>725796827
>>725797081Read about Epic Games v. Apple and Epic games v. Google. He's doing the world good and redirecting billions of dollars from them to the developers
>>725796827>brings 500 japanese console exclusives to PC and shows devs what a big market there is going forward>bans "molest your underage sister 7 vn" for being borderline illegalkeep crying delusional pedo
But does it literally print money? I fucking doubt it
>>725793543>I...I don't get it. Why is Valve being so....kind to usits still being run by its original founder and he is still calling all the shots unchallenged and has not grown incompetent yet
>>725796943>>725797370Sometimes I forgot how many people here are young enough to not have been around for when japanese developers avoided pc like the plague. 30+ /v/ when? Certain subjects are harder to discuss when the person you're talking to is too young.
>>725793639The company doesn't actually care, they just believe that kindness will bring loyalty. Most companies are just switching gears to abuse the built-up loyalty.
>>725797370It's unreal how much trouble valve could have saved themselves by just never allowing porn on their platform and no one would have ever questioned it. Literally top 3 most retarded move Valve has ever done.
>>725793543>swap your sd card many times! >go on, put your games on an SD card>no one will know
>>725793673This. They're allowed to be good because they don't have to cater to shitty out-of-touch shareholders first. Shareholder primacy is a mistake.
>>725797490Yeah just wait til Gabe retires and they replace him with some generic CEO stooge with a name like "Goldstein" who has 35 years of experience managing shoe companies
It turns out if you don't have to answer to shareholders you can still be wildly financially successful AND well liked by the public
>>725797632>nooo you can't allow that my Christian eyes and brain, Jesus noooooooSuck start a pistol, banning the right kind of porn game is key.
holy shit steamfags are embarrassing.
>>725793762You know most companies would pay extra money to ensure it didn't, right?
>>725793543Why don't they make a Steam Card™ micro ssd?
>>725797810Fucking retarded emotional response that didn't comprehend a single thing I wrote. Completely proving my point about the fucking rabid audience they invited on their platform for zero gain.
>>725797463About that...
>>725793543Valve built their "technical monopoly" off of doing that.Loyalty and trust go a long fucking way once you get the ball rolling far enough.Steam and linux do so much for them that they can comfortably experiment and continue to maintain their goodwill.
>>725797884because they aren't conniving gooks like sony
Epic being so massively incompetent to the point they took ages to add carts to an online store was really an eye opening experience for me. Basically the entire fake hype about AI passed me because I always remember that a multi billion dollar company was unable to add carts to their store for some bizarre reasons.
>>725793639Like valve won't try to lock down their ecosystem the moment they have enough market share like every other corp has done so farFormer console cucks will cheer for it, compooters bees racis n shieet
>>725798748Yeah.. because random retard on the internet said so this must be the case. For sure unc, don't have a new conspiracy theory to post in your facebook group?
>>725798748>market shareDoesn't Steam basically own the market it sits in?
>>725798748It's not their ecosystem, they're selling PCs. This whole thread is dumb. no shit you can use your library on any device because they're all the same fucking platform.
>>725798847Zoolatto tard seethe
>>725797754>Shareholder primacy is a mistakeThe problem is that large companies don't need to actually compete with each other any more. If a big company does something bad people are more likely to scream "much capitalism" or "ze J00s" than blame the company and all the other big companies just follow suit and set that as the new standard.
>>725798748>Like valve won't try to lock down their ecosystem the moment they have enough market share like every other corp has done so faranon they have owned the pc market (excluding self-published launchers a la league/roblox/hearthstone) for well over a decade, every company and their mother is part of an anti-monopoly suit against them right nowIf that was going to happen it would have happened by now, I'm not trusting a new company to resist the allure of power when valve has been performing fine for as long as they have
>>725799154Fucktard poojoo
>>725798992When your entire business knowledge comes from a few random 4chan threads and youtube comment section.
>>725794889and gabe comes to your house to personally verify that the account you're sharing with is in fact a family member?
>>725799340This you>>725799295>>725798986?
>>725799413No. Was that your only defense or have you actually something to say about being retarded?
>>725798952It's their hardware, you don't even know anything about it yet or how locked down it is fuckwit retard
>>725799514We know it is you fucking retard, it's a PC that with steamos installed.
>>725799502I dunno. You got an actual attack?
>>725793639Companies don't care about you, some are just better at taking a little of your blood overtime and let you replenish while others just want to suck you dry at the first occasion like demented vampires.
>>725799701Who's 'we' you sukhdeep fucking poojoo
>>725797338Epic v Apple and Epic v Google isnt the story of a good buy fighting two giant evil megacorps.Its the story of a megacorp wanting to piss on the other megacorp's lawn.
>>725796136RETARD ALERT>RETARD ALERTRETARD ALERT>RETARD ALERT
>>725798057Valve makes $11b rev, no one cares.OpenAI loses $12b, val goes up.stonks are weird.
>>725794889What if you have a transnational household, chud?
>>725798941yes, overwhelmingly so, last I checked it was >80%
>>725793543kind?they made a pc so you'll pay them retard whats kind about that
>>725799950https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachineThe fucking store page you braindead faggot.
>>725797338that's just one rich cunt trying to fuck over another rich cunt, you are delusional if you think there is any benevolence behind it
>>725793639Praise Lord GabeN! He dieted for our sins.
>>725798992the actual problem is antitrust is never enforced, we made laws to prevent megacorps from fucking over everyone but then we just dont enforce them.if antitrust was actually enforced the share market might look a little smaller but things would be better for literally everyone that isn't a billionaire.
>>725800142Doesn't say shit you circumcised autistic
>>725800004Can't wait for the bubble and for the aifags to go > jk, we never meant for it to be a real intelligence, it's just a superGoogle haha
>>725800307How are you THIS tech illiterate? Wtf do you think it is?
>>725800004Because Valve is a private company and they're looking for investors. OpenAI is operating in a bubble economy.
>>725800348they're not* looking for investors
>>725800329Where does it say anything about what you can boot on it you circumcised ratfaced mongoloid
>says its going to be competitive with consoles >this would normally mean its going to be around the $500 price>nintendo is selling a ps4 for $500 though so it will most likely be $900 or more and thats still being generousI mean my only hope is that its steam. They are selling the steamdeck at a reasonable price but that was BEFORE nintendo fucked over the market. And their vr headset is still a grand which is insanely retarded.
>>725798748>the company that has completely dominated the PC gaming market for nearly 20 years will suddenly switch gears and become aggressively monopolistic for no apparent reasonwhy?'greed' isn't an answer here, steam is a money printer with almost no competition whatsoever, at best you could claim 'profound retardation' but since we've seen no evidence of that, I have no reason to believe it
>>725800491First, tell me what you think it is.
>>725793543They earn so much money from lootboxes and steam they can do these passion projects without worry
>>725793683they are, just not with the interfaces on these valve devices (only sdxc, not the new sd express standard)
>>725800516They don't dominate shit it's a storefront downy tard, the games they produce are flops too
>>725793771Gaben is still part of the interview process.
>>725800559Zoolatto mongoloid
>>725800491Are you retarded?
>>725793543private company, no shareholders, no dividends.
>>725800704You have the tech literacy of an 80 year old grandma, go back to consoles.
>>725793543Valve is not publicly traded.They are not bound by law to make as much money as possible for shareholders.Understand that every publicly traded company is FORCED BY LAW to make as much money as possible.
>>725793543Don't do what? You still have to have an account that has licenses to those games.
>>725800723Zoolatto downy cope
>>725793543>steam shuts down >sd card games no longer work due to being tied to steam (((drm)))>nothingness status: ownedthey sure saved gaming
>>725800631>They don't dominate shit what causes this profound retardation? 75% of all gaming on PC happens on Steam.
>>725800723don't waste your time, bro. cattle can't read.
>>725800765Zoolatto downy copes and seethes
>>725800491>>725800850How did you figure out how to post on 4chan while being this tech illiterate? Holy shit.
once gabe dies steam will become another soulless corporation that only exists to inflate its stock price
>>725800874Prove it, I don't use steam to launch my games, they can only collect data from the people actually using their platform, all if this will go over the head of an inbred ghetto poojoo like yourself
>>725795393Valve is not a monopolyCS is not a gacha
>>725801074Valve doesn't need external funding so its not going to go public
Honestly this shit reminds me that I bought a third party 360 drive so I could download my copy of Boom Boom Rocket, and as it turns out they have to be formatted a really specific way or fuck you, you can't download or launch software off of it
What will the death of pc gaming be like after Gabe dies? Slow decay? Total collapse?
i member when hannaford had a double money back guarantee.. i miss white people.
>>725793543Once upon a time most companies treated their customers well. Just look at what fast food used to do 20 years ago. It's only recent where companies decided to fuck over customers whenever and wherever possible right to their face.
I fucking hate MicroSD cards so much. Their limited read/write cycles are terrible. Can we PLEASE come up with a better memory card-like format?
>>725800963Zoolatto drone with no future because it's retarded
>>725799514Its a pc and you can install any os on it you want.
>>725797628Actually once upon a time the people who ran companies actually cared about what their customers felt and so the idea of purposely fucking them over was foreign to them. Much like you don't screw over your friends or even random people in real life.
>>725801295A lot of brain dead jeets like to cope that Valve will magically stop being shit after Gabe dies but they've got like a whole system set up for after the fact.
this is how steam share works right nowif anything you should expect it to be like this off the bat
>>725801074>Once the sun falls from the orbit into the earth nothing matters anymore lol>we're all dying anyways lmao>we'll all own nothing anyways
>>725801358We know what hardware it's using. What know what OS it's using. What do you not understand?
>>725794832I share library with 4 others friends and one of them is currently working in japan, works fine.
>>725801382Prove it poojoo
>>725793543He's tricking you into buying the whole set. It's a malicious tactic to get you invested in the ecosystem. Want to play your Deck game on your TV? Well better buy a Machine and switch over the SD card instead of buying a proper console with an actual concept behind it.It's downright evil.
>>725801295PC gaming won't die. Even sony is looking to create a PC launcher and migrate everything there. What will happen though i predict is that we will have to many launchers just like the situation with movie streaming services.
>>725798748Just like prebuilt pc manufacturers are locking down their platforms?
>>725801354Use an USB stick, external SSDs, even fucking HDDs, literally ANYTHING that holds data. This is not a shitty fisher price tablet
>>725801470Lol 'we', dumb fuck poojoo from some ghettoIt's not even been released yet downy jeet what the fuck do you know
>>725801151you cant just get the number of people who report playing games, then the number of people with a steam account and cross reference?what would proof even look like you?
I am prolly gonna buy the steam controller if its not 100$
>>725801470Stop giving him attention already
>>725801492SteamOS is linux based and its a open source OS. This means all the knowledge needed to uninstall/modify that installation is public.Just like valves handheld.
>>725801530Where are all you circumcised autistics coming from
>>725801587What? All of this is listed on the store page.
>>725801619That's right, stick to astroturfing and leave the thinking to the white man sukhdeep
>>725801686Your tranny moms boypussy.Im your older brother and you really need to stop wetting the bed, you're 27 years old
>>725801701What sound card does it use poojoo, since it's all on the page
>>725801630I think it's going to be over 100 bucks, it's basically the steamdeck without the screen from what i've seen so far.
>>725794397Except you have to redownload through the network as a file transfer and have a dedicated MicroSD for each hardware. MicroSD card is just plug and play this play.
>>725801905It's not the 90s, who the fuck uses sound cards anymore?
>>725801826>what would proof even look like you?answer the question, I know you have nothing so you turn to name calling.
>>725793639>multi-billion company really does care about me!you are mentally ill
>>725801884Circumcised downy cope
>>725801185>Valve is not a monopolylol>CS is not a gachalmao
>>725802020No need to sign your posts
>>725801974Shows how retarded you are, good to know you have no future dumbfuck zoolatto lol
what the fuck is a poojoo
>>725802054CS has no gacha mechanics.Having better platform than your competitor doesn't make yours a monopoly
>>725802139Is this a schizo meltdown? Are you ok?
>>725802142It's what you get when a brownoid mystery mutt is also circumcised
>>725802142whatever the fuck shat out that guy
>>725802318Im not ur mom
>>725802216Lol keep pulling your last few remaining strands of hair out in frustration downy
>>725802054definition of monopoly is pretty loose but steam isn't stopping anyone else from competing and it's not some technical marvel to compete with them, so they only have a majority by being the best.experts likely wouldn't call it a monopoly for those reasons alone.Amazon has a monopoly because of their logistic/production networks, you couldn't set up an amazon competitor even with a trillion dollars.you could sell your video game on your own website today in less than an hour of setup.
>>725793673Its literally this. Sad to see zoomers not remembering a time when companies actually made products for their consumers and not to please faggot shareholders.
>>725802332Lol poojoo triggered
>>725802415you can even sell your shit on multiple storefronts, the only spergout was about steam KEYS being sold outside of steam iirc
>>725802605No need to sign your posts
>>725802563will say though steam did have a thing recently where you weren't allowed to sell your game for cheaper on other platforms (including your own site).I can't remember if this has always existed or I just heard about it or if it's already gone.
>>725802645Do not redeem the post saar
>>725793639Literally who
>>725802771Im typing in the code right now
>>725802740Alright. I was wrong about steam being a monopoly, but I still think CS is a gacha because of the skin retardation.
>>725802982Its your mom too
>>725793543Valve is privately owned, no shareholders to make an excessive profit for.
>>725793543This has been the case with Steam games since forever it's just the wording that makes it seem like some new idea. You have always been able to take installed Steam games on one drive and simply insert the drive and play or copy them onto a new PC once you verify the install location, assuming you already own the game on your account.This is literally the same thing but instead of it being an SSD or external drive it's just with a Micro SD card.If you don't want to do that than you can also just transfer the games over LAN and its trivially easy you just need to have both computers turned on and connected to the same network.
>>725802740I think it was the case for Steam keys specifically, yeah. They can sell it for whatever price anywhere but if it's activated on Steam, and presumably uses Valve's infrastructure like download bandwidth/mutiplayer servers and shit, it should have price parity with the store itself.
>>725803080Put down the meth pipe downy
>>725802950I think diablo 2 is a fighting game because of online pvp
>>725803164Ur mon gave it to me
>>725803127I keep seeing this jeet astroturfed nonsense coming up like it's supposed to mean anything
>>725802950depends, They're not locking gameplay/progression behind lootboxes, you could make it all the way to pro esports without ever touching a case.it's predatory and I dont like it but it's not as bad as gacha games where gameplay characters are timed exclusive naked women.I do think world would be better off without either.
I already have 8gigs of vram on my pc though. The only think that sucks with my pc is the processor, but in order to upgrade that I'm going to need a brand new motherboard. I wonder if it would be better to buy this? Valve says its going to be 6 times stronger then the steam deck. Well, steam deck runs some games better then my pc, despite me having 8gigs of vram. For example Granblue Relink. It slogs on my pc but on steam deck it runs flawless. Samething with Cyberpunk.On the flipside, if I'm playing any REengine game, like REmake4 or Monster Hunter, my pc fucking plays is perfect and meanwhile the steam deck can't run them nearly as well.
>>725803254Keep smoking it then retard, but go smoke it with your fellow mulattos on skidrow
>>725803424I am, ur mom is here too
>>725803321Meaning customers first and not kikes.
>>725793639Can I have my cunnyge back now Mr Gayb
>>725803480Lol downy zoolatto huffing its own shit again, run along now rapebred
>>725803705Huffin with your mom
>>725803526Why are you shilling for them, are you tarded or do you get paid at least
>>725797081>literallyStopped right here. Brown hands typed this post.
>>725803321Do not call me a jeet. I love animals and i hate poop.Anyway. A publically-owned company operates with the fiduciary duty of profiting it's shareholders. Customer comes second.A privately-owned company can do whatever the hell they want. If they want to make money, it's in their best interest to put the interests of the customer first.
>>725793543No Valve just didn't sell out to shareholder fuckwitsYet. Gabe is old.
>>725801924Nah it'll be a loss leader like the steam machine since there is a lot more money to be made in software sales. Especially since this is them trying to break into the market, you start cheap then boil the frog once you're an established player.
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>>725803934Ur mom is posting here?
>>725803321Learn your own history, fuckwithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
>just make a better product than your competitors>everyone loves you for itThat's all it takes, just don't be a piece of shit.This post is also your daily reminder the real reason they're talking about invading Venezuela is because Maduro outlawed usury.
>>725803881Posting cats won't make you less of a jeet poo poo person
>>725803918In most cases it won't and can't be a loss leader because it's also just a PC meaning if they did this there would be nothing stopping a company from buying 10000 units to only use as PC's and never play or buy games which would be a massive loss for Valve.It's going to cost a lot more than most console players are expecting or used to paying for hardware.
>>725803983Finish school downy
>>725804031But i'm italian-american.
>>725803918oh you meant just the controller, that maybe yes
>>725804095Ur mom didn't and she's the smartest in the ghetto
>>725794832I think it's just same region? I did it with IRLs but I logged into their accounts to make sure it worked.
>>725804128You can just say you're a mulatto, or a zoolatto
yeah you pretty much have to be evil greedy and scam people as much as possible once public
>>725804186Your mom is poor downy you're breaking her poor old back
>>725803983you should look up the original logo for dodge
>>725804356Shes here with your mom huffin
>>725797628>they just believe that kindness will bring loyaltyimagine that.
>game library on SD cardaren't SD cards slow though compared with nvme?
>>725793543>sd card>for 80-100GB gamesAre they fucking retarded? yeah I'll enjoy that choppy fucking mess while I'm trying to play like ff7 remake off a fucking sd card
>>725804517I dont play slop thats above 60gb
>>725804470>>725804517it's pretty much just for swapping between it and the Steam Deck. Nothing's stopping you for using a USB C SSD or an external HDD or something instead.
>>725804470Everything is slow compared to nvme you fucking retard.
>>725803983Wow, so Dodge ruined capitalism for everyone.If you see a charger or challenger, break a window for ol' Henry. The OG who always had your back.
>>725793543this is just a digital library? Its expected that when you buy a game it will carry over. Sony Microsoft and Nintendo do it nowadays too.
>>725804257Mama mia!
>>725804470Sd express cards are quite fast I think, sd tech has advanced a lot in the last 2 years, 2tb cards soon
>>725793543private company so not beholden to stock holders and rotating CEOs which focus on short term wealth extraction.Old business model of building and maintaining trust of consumers to cultivate loyalty.
>>725805086Nevermind 2tb is already on the market and 1tb has gotten a lot cheaper
>>725805096I run steam in a sandbox when I use it, then I crack my games and delete it
>>725801394stop saying anti-semitic things like this
>>725801936>Except you have to redownload through the network as a file transferOk so? That's convenient as fuck.
>>725805238Switch 2 pretty much forced manufacturers to adopt SD Express. The only ones reasonably priced are the Walmart ones.
>>725805343I buy most games on GOG and crack what Steam games I have. Game on Bazzite and Windows 11. Why, because I have 2 gaming laptops and a Desktop.. I have no idea why as well
>>725793543>you can transfer files using SD cardsWow that's crazy, thanks Gabe!
>>725805567Better to be safe than sorry in this time of rampant chicanery
>>725805539Wtf I like nintendo now
>>725793941you'd be surprised at how low corporations are willing to go
>>725793762companies all assfuck youall steam had to do was make the hairpulling optional to absolutely confound the competition.
>>725793639HAil, HAIL! LORD GABE, MAY THE SALES BE BOUNTIFUL AND HIS ANGER SATED!
>>725805086I saw somebody say the cube doesn't take express. funny seeing people complain about the cube not having it when they were calling it a gimmick when Switch 2 required it.
>>725803983Would there be any way to reverse this ruling so that a company's responsibilities are to their customers rather than their shareholders?I think it's time to start a "Customer First" movement ala SKG, initially focused on repealing this law.
>only console that just gives you a spare M.2 slot to use is the fucking PS5That's the only choice Sony made that wasn't completely fucking retarded for that thing.
>>725806951Strictly speaking all laws are arbitrary and all this case suggests is that shareholders have a "legitimate" claim to damages owed to them if a corporation fails to increase the value of their investments.
>>725793637>>725793639>xhe says, clenching his funko pop and typing on his 2000 dollar iphonemilllenials are the most braindead cobsumer who just gobble up whatever companies throw at them
>>725802809Should be ban worthy
>>725800775My middle school had a little terrace like thatBrings back some....pretty awful memories desu. I fucking hated middle school
>>725802952Kino
>>725804517Tendie
>>725807236The thing about it is is that putting the profits of the shareholders first is incredibly shortsighted and will invariably lead to damaging the companies reputation as well as potential longer-term profits.
>>725806183Literally the stupidest fucking decision any game company has ever made, next to "always online" for the Xbox One.What in the fresh fuck of all fucks were they thinking
>>725807614proprietary memory cards worked for ps1 and 2, just keep going with it!
Mark my words, there's going to be a hostile buyout of Steam in the next few years and it's going to be more consumer hostile than Apple.
>>725793543>16gb of ramok I guess, steamOS doesn't take much up anyway>8gb of vramwhat the fuck were they thinking? niggers even promoted it being 4k capable with FSR but it's still not enough to copethis thing is gonna cost like 700-800 bux anyway so what's another 50 dorra for 16gb of vram? cucks
>>725807279angry underage lol
>>725807886you can't really perform a hostile takeover on a private company
>>725808262Yes you can. Everyone has a price and Microsoft has the fucking cash thanks to AI.
>>725793639Delusional
>>725793637>20 years agoIt was 2005, which was essentially the peak of anti-piracy protection and anti-consumer practices. Denuvo looks acceptable compared to the crap from that time, we literally had ‘online only’ single-player games in the late 2000s before Steam came along.
Don't mention degenerate companies.They haev nothing to do with games.They are enemy.Any raped by them spreading that rape aren't innocent by it.
>>725793838Inceldom really did a number on your already autistic brain lmao
>>725802415>but steam isn't stopping anyone else from competing>price parity/no favored nation clause while holding 73% market share
>>725808127brand loyalty is part of millennial identity. just look at the console wars. sucking off their multimillion dollar company while shitting on someone elses. whenever someone points out design flaws of their favourite machine the millenial response is "works on my machine" or "poorfag". compare an IBM thinkpad(gen x) and 2013 macbook(millenial). the latter is unrepairable and overpriced garbage, but millennials praised it because it's whoopin' lightweight(less durable) and has a minimalist design(less features). electronics devolved so much in the 2010's when millenials were in their 20's. or how about millennials gaslighting themselves into thinking using an android phone(open source) means you're a poorfag?if you look on youtube it's zoomers who buy used laptops, preach about right to repair and promote stop killing games.
valve is just doing the same thing nintendo did 30 years agoyour children will suffer from steam cultists just like we are suffering from millenial tendies once they begin their own enshitification
>>725793543>kind to us?Please stop being a simp for ten seconds. They are being proactive. Windows is turning into a "YELL AT CORTANA/COPILOT TO TAKE A SHIT" unproducitivity device and they see the writing on the wall about how much Microsoft cares about gaming (they don't). If it were up to microsoft, all games would be exclusive to the microsoft store and all third party software would require a lengthy compatibility review to ensure it works exclusively with Copilot and can be controlled hands-free using AI. That is the direction Microsoft is going in, and Valve is seeing this and saying "Oh fuck no" and pushing what I feel is their panic button: Make mid-range hardware themselves that is game-centric using Steam OS as a liferaft to escape Microsoft's plans to sink Windows as a general purpose consumer platform. We're going to see the smartphoneification of Windows even more than we've already seen. It seems pro-consumer only because their interests align with ours this time, I don't want to be raped by AI. Only a few companies like Nintendo don't want your games raped by AI, and Volvo is one of them. It's pro-consumer because it's not windows trying to shove nu-Cortana down our throats and it's in valve's best interest as they are looking at a future where Steam may not even work on Windows. Microsoft may be getting ready to do to Steam what Valve does to random Japanese games and simply shadowban it without any explanation nor support on making it work.
>>725808839>You'll get just as bad as us!!!Nope
