He's Professor Light

>>107749765
peepeepoopoo shit BRAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPP

>>107749765
its not public owned company

>>107749852
/thread

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>>107749765
it seems ridiculous now but before steam you couldnt just go to one website to download and install games. you had to buy them from all over the place

>>107750101
This. Steam simply was first successful online games shop.

>>107749765
>were the first ones to make a centralized video game store
>had zero ads and cancer even back then, still has zero ads and cancer (not counting furfags on the platform) to this day
>just straight forward - launch > play games / launch > store > buy > play
>displays useful things like a game requiring 3rd party acc/launcher or tpm2.0/secureboot so you can safely ignore it
>as above it tells you if it will run properly on linux/steam deck
>valve is the only one actually investing into linux - arch at that lmao
>made their own emulator to fix a lot of winshit games on linux
>steam support actually reads their tickets and will 99% of the time refund you any game you wish/choose
>steam will literally send a replacement/refund if your steam deck gets scratched in a month or has such a minimal error nobody should care, yet they do
>made EA, Ubisoft, Epic & PSN crawl back to their store after those realized they lost money by forcing their launchers (which somehow still lack a proper store page? niggas at epic still can't even change their pfp)
>is now starting to tag AI slop and has one singular button to filter it all out
>24/7 sales that people literally just buy games on Steam instead of claiming them for free on dogshit launchers like Epic
Gee I wonder why?

>>107750145
This. The only real competition they have is GOG. All other alternatives are so nakedly anti-consumer that most people wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole.

>>107749765
Not a publicly traded company = no need to change what's working.

>>107749765
not being beholden to shareholders grants immunity from pozz and the capacity to think beyond the next quarter, valuing things besides pure profit, short term gains line must go up infinitely brainrot

They try and provide a better service than just pirating games. Who would have thought that people will pay for a service if it's good enough, shock horror, lawmakers destroy this evil monopoly. Oy vey.

>>107749765
Americans are rich and wealthy they don't have to pirate

>>107750145
>>made their own emulator to fix a lot of winshit games on linux
more like made a bundle of wine+dxvk+some more+configurations because it's such a fucking mess and too easy to get it wrong without even knowing.
Also they provide native linux runtimes for native games. Think of it like flatpak kde or gnome runtime. Devs can just target that runtime instead of playing a guesswork game of which distro is causing a bug.
iirc they either donate to projects or put people on payroll to make projects like mesa better

Post it again why don’t you.

Piracy is a service issue. They provide good service and that's literally all they've ever done. Everyone else just shoots themselves in the foot constantly.
Plus they were first.

>>107750145
You forgot
>reaps 30% of the game developers revenue as pure profit
>has a complete monopoly on PC gaming and holds the game libraries of its userbase hostage
>has the most hardcore diehard fanboys the world has ever seen, putting even iToddlers to shame

>>107749777
spbp /thread
the last thread was already shit this one will be worse

>>107749765
racism
anime avatars
forums
trading
free cases

>>107752351
Hello Tim, finally got that shopping cart figured out?

>>107752362
>30% tax when Apple does it
BAD
>30% tax when Microsoft does it
REE
>30% tax when Google does it
EVIL
>30% tax when Valve does it
BASED!

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>>107752378
>mm--m-m-m-muh fee!
No one gives a shit Timmy, but keep coping, I'm sure if you keep giving games away that people don't even want for free people will use your failed store.

>>107752378
>WHY WON'T YOU THINK OF THE CORPORATIONS IT'S ANOTHER SHOA OVER HERE! THEY ARE MAKING US PAY THE FEE INSTEAD OF PAYING US!

>>107750253
Within 15 years Gabe will die. His kids will be too stupid to run it so they will IPO and enjoy the next 50 years of their lives on giga yachts. Some cockroach CEO straight out of Yale will add some stupid shit like AI or a subscription service to the platform every quarter until gog comes in and takes the crown. There will probably be some collusion between the two stores because there is a big opportunity for autistic gamers to rebuy their entire libraries on the new popular storefront. Screenshot this

>>107752405
>rebuy
Re-rent.

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>>107752378
>>30% tax when Apple does it
>BAD
>>30% tax when Microsoft does it
>REE
>>30% tax when Google does it
>EVIL
>>30% tax when Valve does it
>BASED!

>>107752378
imagine still trying this bullshit in $currentyear
yeah yeah steam bad because muh fees that's why games on the epic store are 30% cheaper than anywhere else right? because the fees are lower right? all for the consumer right? go fuck yourself you subhuman piece of niggershit and stop insulting the intelligence of people that bother to read your fucking drivel

>>107749765
Doesn't want to constantly fuck uses raw in the ass for short term profit

>>107752378
You get a lot for the 30%

>>107752378
It's not the same thing and you know it. Stop being disingenuous. The 30% for Valve is much more fair.

>>107749777
>t. totally mindbroken consolefag

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>>107752426
>that's why games on the epic store are 30% cheaper than anywhere else right
From here suicide is the only way forward for Epic shills lmao

>>107752351
The reason you guys get bullied over this is because you are edgelords who think they're sitting on classified information. Everyone knows this. Valve does a lot of other minor things and as a whole props up PC gaming. I'd rather overpay and cuck devs a little than risk PC gaming sphere become a wasteland to corporate interest like we so many other places. The few moral fags who are cognizant of this probably already buy from GOG or directly to get around this. The reason why people responds is because it rustles because you're basically going full retard and revisionist by spouting such moronic shit.

If you're truly in the know you should be sitting on your last GPU by now, waiting for RISC v and be ashamed that you ever gave Nvidia money.

>>107752351
>>reaps 30% of the game developers revenue as pure profit
They don't take the full 30%, learn how it works, it's 1 google away, or ask ChatGPT, other stores take a % as well.
>>has a complete monopoly on PC gaming and holds the game libraries of its userbase hostage
Nobody is hostage on Steam, they're willingly there, as it's a good monopoly which only offers good things in return.
>>has the most hardcore diehard fanboys the world has ever seen, putting even iToddlers to shame
Fanboying Valve is literally justified, Valve does absolutely nothing wrong and has full respect towards the consumer.

>>107752378
This just proves how fucking retarded you are, if you're this desperate for a you just write it, I will pamper you little boy.

>>107752597
Nah the reason these retards get clowned on so hard is simply that even the dumbest gorilla nigger understands >>107752426. Nothing is going to improve for gamers if Steam loses it's monopoly at best (as in the delusional fairy-tale outcome) nothing gets worse. In reality it'd just lead gaming to go down the path of streaming.
>230749823749234 "competing platforms" pop up for a few years
>profitability collpases
>sales collapse
>market consolidates back into just one or two companies controlling anything but now fees are 300% higher than they used to be and you get less content

>>107749765
Loaded question. It isn't successful. It failed gaming; turning it into a plantation of DRM, DLC and microtransactions.
Now, you must take your medication.

>>107752651
>They don't take the full 30%
Kek

>>107752778
kekw on your entire family

>>107752676
>turning it into a plantation of DRM, DLC and microtransactions
nah that were the studios you're pimped out by you aids ridden whore

>>107749852
some would say this is anti american

>>107749765
lots of tranny losers praise whatever valve does despite of being treated as shit like letting their games rot with cheaters and bots while at the same time fans being ok with that and still giving valve's money for not doing anything or finishing their games (cs2, deadlock, tf2)

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>>107749765
you had this thread yesterday, why are you so obsessed

>>107752424
15% tax when Epic does it
>BAD
30% tax when valve does
>BASED!

>>107753871
Yes. Keep seething about it Timmy.

>>107752351
You forgot the most important part, no one is able to even emulate it because they're too greedy! Timmy can't even COPY a storefront LOL!

>>107753871
>Tim Cuckny learns that no matter how much money he throws around no one will ever like him
It'd be sad if it wasn't so funny.

>>107749765
why are we having this thread again. op isn't even using a different pic.
>>107731743

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>>107753880
>>107753889
you'll never going to be a real woman

>>107752351
you forgot
INCEST
HORSE
PORN

>>107753939
saaar...

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>>107753939
>Y-Y-You're a t-t-t-t-tranny! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/show-your-pride-with-epic-games-in-rainbow-royale-2022

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>>107753954
keep seething trannies, at least we got hogwarts legacy for free, when was the last time steam had a good freebie that isnt shovelware lmao

>>107753969
>NOOOOO YOU ARE THE TRANNY!
>cuts off >xher dick
https://esports.gg/news/fortnite/fortnite-rainbow-royale-2023/

>>107750101
This and patch management for games meant you had to go to fileplanet, <game>planet, or numerous other offshoot sites to hunt them down.

Steam consolidated all that, to where consoles took the idea and just ran with it.

But now a days Valve is doing stuff like supporting Linux while shit stores like GoG and others don't. Then said shit stores wonder why nobody buys from them.

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>>107753969
>hogwarts legacy
>calls others tranny

>>107753969
>hogwarts legacy
>isnt shovelware
>muh trannies
However much you were beaten as a kid it clearly wasn't enough on account of the fact that you are still breathing

>>107753969
>AYY MANE, THAT NIGGA TIMMY GIBS ME DAT FO FREE
Lol

>>107753983
>>107753990
>the moment someone mentions epic
REEEE YOU TIMMY BOT INDIAN CHINK LET MY MULTIBILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE

steam has a partnership with sweet baby, they invented microtransaction the moment they introduced the manco store in tf2, i really think that valve fans are literally masochist, i never said that epic was good or better, just saying that it is pathetic that steam can't give decent freebies anymore and their sales are not as they used to be

>>107754056
nobody said corporations were your friend. you typically have to chose the less shit option, and steam is the less shit option. probably not going to change any time soon.

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>>107754056
Oh great you got completely anally raped last thread when you tried this cope about muh CS cases but hey you soulless bugmen who am I to deny you pleasure of getting raped again.
Oblivion horse armour got released in 2006 for the Xbox 360. Want to take a guess which year the manco store got released in?

Why does every thread have to become schizo basedjak and saar spamming? Literally just argue like normal humans holy shit

>>107754056
>they invented microtransaction the moment they introduced the manco store in tf2
Zoomer detected, korean mmo microtransactions predate this by at least five-six years.

>>107754102
it's the current fashion and even nerds and faggots and autists are subceptible to fashion. that's just how people work.

>>107754102
>saar spamming?
Blame jeets for being so repulsive that everyone is offended to be called a jeet, even anonymously online.

>>107754076
yeah but steam fans think that valve and gabe are saving gaming and act very delusional with everything valve related like when they thought they were going to announce hl3 on the game awards.
they do the bare minimum and steamies act like it is the second coming of jesus christ but its just valve updating their gambling platform and pasting some fans github code in their shitty bloated game but not compensating their fans work since valve only takes advantage of their fans goodwill.

>>107754090
so just because other shitty company did it before makes valve's way of profiting from microtransaction any good?
also steam and epic are drm platforms, you dont own the software, you dont own anything and you're happy, eat the bugs and take your hormone blockers you tranny

>>107754102
Because 80% of this site's current userbase is terminally /pol/brained.

>>107754158
>they do the bare minimum
Name two stores that do more.

>>107754102
There is no argument to be had. Steam provides the superior service. Notice the spam coming from people attacking steam? Gee I wonder who might be behind this totally not coordinated campaign that reuses shit word for word and doesn't even deny it when called out for it directly >>107754158

>>107754158
>epic troon fails yet again at not calling others tranny for one post

>>107754102
>argue like normal humans holy shit
How do you argue with someone that just strawman's and desperately fails at shifting the goal posts literally every single post?
>>107754158
>so just because other shitty company did it before makes valve's way of profiting from microtransaction any good?
Feel free to point out where I said that tranny.

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>>107754158
promoting linux is in fact saving gaming
microsoft deserves to be dethroned
meanwhile timmy is one of the dumbest motherfuckers out there coming out with takes like pic related

>>107754158
>yeah but steam fans think that valve and gabe are saving gaming and act very delusional with everything valve related like when they thought they were going to announce hl3 on the game awards.
dude i think that's actually just you. there is a big problem with some guys is that they think if you can say something that isn't derogatory about something or someone, that means you're their bitch and you just love them and everything they do and you're on your knees with that slurpy slurp. whereas it actually just means you live in the real world and you can see that some people are good or competent at some shit. don't be like that, because it's actually a trap.

>>107754188
you're just comparing shit with shit, just so happens that valve's shit stinks less than epic shits

>>107754189
its just an ok service but lacks a lot of functionalities, UI is bloatware, it literally runs a chromium browser inside your game library even offline, it also has telemetry

>>107754219
i can see you got triggered when i brought up the manco store, so you dont have to explicitly say it lol

>>107754228
maybe, but its still a closed platform, its only good when it comes to using proton to run cracked games from firgirl repacks, but they're trying to make linux what google did with android

>>107754204
>log into tf2
>wait 1 hour queing
>join a lobby
>lobby full of furry pyros with tranny flags and pronouns
> voice chat are just a bunch of redditors screaming cringy 2021 memes while the rest of the people moved on from those unfunny memes

again, you'll never be a real woman

>>107754256
>its only good when it comes to using proton to run cracked games from firgirl repacks, but they're trying to make linux what google did with android
>you don't need to interact with valve in any way to use it but they want to make it so you have to do that!
meds
that's not how open source works
valve already dominates the fucking platform with or without linux
this is just them cleaning up microsoft's enjeeted garbage out of goodwill

>>107754307
>goodwill
they have their own interest in it, and that's to avoid being strangled to death by a microsoft monopoly. i've got no problems with that because i am exiting microsoft after this computer. fuck them.

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>>107754307
> this is just them cleaning up microsoft's enjeeted garbage out of goodwill
imagine thinking that corporations are your "friend", theres a reason why people dont like ubuntu or redhat and google's android

>>107754286
What does your tf2 tranny self help group have to do with anything?

>>107754256
>what are you triggered liberal?

>>107754350
by this point they have no fear of microsoft, they tried competing with them and failed
microsoft needs valve more than valve needs microsoft

>>107754352
because they made decisions people don't like?
valve doesn't give a shit about what you do, proton is distro agnostic and soon it'll even be cpu architecture agnostic
you can use it regardless of what you think of valve without giving them a single penny

>>107752359
>racism
you can get community banned for racism and for some games you get automuted

>forums
more like reddit 2.0

>trading
literally a gambling site, get a real job nigger

>free cases
not free when you have to pay for keys to open the lootbox

>>107754228
Tim said nothing wrong here

>>107754395
>>racism
>you can get community banned for racism and for some games you get automuted
Communities are not moderated by Steam but the game dev/publisher.
>>forums
>more like reddit 2.0
Still better than 4chan.
>>trading
>literally a gambling site, get a real job nigger
Making free money while enjoying games is not gambling.
>>free cases
>not free when you have to pay for keys to open the lootbox
You don't have to pay for anything, time is money.

>>107754387
>valve doesn't give a shit about what you do
is that why valve's games are unplayable bot infested shitholes and every day thousands of steam accounts gets stolen and valve just let that slide in?

>>107754416
>have no rebuttal
>deflect to something completely unrelated
an old timmy classic

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>>107754406
what are you going to do about pic related huh?
make petitions? say shit on twitter?
nothing faggot
you have zero possible impact on microsoft changing course

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>>107754407
>Communities are not moderated by Steam but the game dev/publisher.
community bans are a steam thing, and you can get banned for using slurs and other redneck biggotry slang

>Making free money while enjoying games is not gambling.
like making 10 dollars while playing for 8 years the same game? lazy ass nigger

>You don't have to pay for anything, time is money.
cs2 and tf2 cases need keys to be open which you have to buy on the marketplace, and time is more valuable than money

>>107749765
It just works.
My steam account is around 20 years old and I had ZERO issues with the whole platform for about two decades.
10/10 value

>>107754444
Tim sued google and won, and Apple is going to be forced to open up in other regions, dumbass. Nice quads tho

>>107754459
you think you can sue microsoft into unfucking windows?

>>107754449
how? Steam used to be nice with low memory usage but every major update it gets further into being laggy bloatware in exchange for dropping legacy OS support. I maintain several PCs from different eras, as my account is 22 years old. I can't even play fucking Doom on the system I bought the damn game on

>>107754446
>and time is more valuable than money
Which is why (You) spend your time smearing a billion dollar company on a Mongolian amateur cave diving forum? Yeah your time is clearly highly valuable.

>>107754430
>expose valves their lack of interest of fixing their services because fans will eat that shit without consequences
>steamie will call you tim since he's out of arguments

people who defend valve are mentally ill trannies who dont work

>>107749765
Network effect.
Everyone is on steam, everyone has all their games on steam, might as well keep all the eggs in one basket.

>>107754486
>waaaa why doesn't my single core 2003 notepad get the same performance as a machine with orders of magnitude more performance in a single core never mind the whole chip
The world has moved on beyond your toaster kiddo. Are you still seething that basically every distro has dropped x32 support too? Or Itanium?

>>107754489
so is you kek

>>107754493
ok faggot, should we talk about epic bribing publishers into exclusivity with children's money? or how about the fact that ue5 is one of the worst fucking things that happened to games? or how about them actively being kike niggers and breaking linux compatibility?
you're throwing stones from a glass house
epic could fucking disappear and the gaming landscape would be measurably improved overnight
they contributed LESS THAN NOTHING

>>107754506
>so is you
>SAAAAAAAAAAAAAR WHY DO YOU CALL ME CURRY TIM
kek indeed

>>107754477
you think you can piss yourself enough that everyone will switch to linux? maybe in another 10 years, but for the foreseeable future I use Windows.

>>107754504
Address the actual point that Steam is laggy fucking bloatware, plus you don't own your games

>>107754506
ESL should be a ban able offence.

>>107754524
i don't care about your tech illiteracy
answer the question
HOW do you imagine windows being fixed

>>107754504
its not about hardware is more about how their software is bloated because of the amount of telemetry they put on steam only so the cia niggers can have a profile of your activity

>>107754515
>e5 is one of the worst fucking things that happened to games
and source 2 is ultra shit it can't even compete with ue5, so your favorite multibillion company wont do shit to stop epic's monopoly on game engines
> how about them actively being kike niggers and breaking linux compatibility
so is valve for partnering with sweet baby and other woke libcuck organizations
> epic could fucking disappear and the gaming landscape would be measurably improved overnight
gaming is already dead even steam charts shows that most players play old and indie games and dont care about AAA goyslop, i really dont give a shit if steam, epic or your black ass disappears that wont affect my linux experience

>>107754541
by staying on win10 nerd

>>107754535
>muh laggy bloatware
>y-y-y-you don't o-own anything
I bloated your mom last night want me to talk about that instead? Certainly seems to have more of a point than talking to a retard that can't comprehend that software has changed in the last 22 years. What do you even want me to say? I can continue mocking you if you get off on that or something.
If you're so pissed about steam being muh bloatware do it better yourself, build a nice lean client that people want to use where you actually own the games.
You won't because you're either retarded, a shill for other even more bloated bullshit like Ubisoft/EA/Epic or both.

>>107754584
Oh and just in case you are a GOG shill: Kill yourself. Imagine implicitly defending shit like the GOG launcher and then complaining about laggy bloatware.

>>107754577
how did that work out for windows 7 users?
oh right, they're literally gone from the steam survey now, less than 1/1000 of steam's windows users are still on it
this is your fate, being forced into obsolescence and soon barred from new hardware

>>107754584
anyone who defends bloated software and multibillion corporations in this site, it just reminds me when basedjack party hacked 4chan and showed how feds work on 4chan and probably create those retarded bot posts and threads

>>107754584
If you buy software for a system, you should be allowed to keep using it on the system you bought it on. Its a simple principle and the core reason Steam's DRM should allow you to use your software independent of its constantly bloating client

Its something a slackjaw gamer retard busy sucking corporate cock wouldn't understand

>>107754608
that's why tim said fight for the freedoms on the OS you currently use today. If Linux had 100% compatibility with all windows games, I'd jump ship, but it doesn't, and I'm not talking about games with kernel anticheat, but lots of legacy games that aren't and probably will never be supported, and even games that are labeled as Playable on proton infact have lots of unreported issues.

Do whatever you want but I'm sticking with Windows until Linux can actually best it

>>107754620
>>107754634
>gets called out for being a useless waste of air
>immediately retreats to buzzword bullshit bingo with nothing said at the end of it
As I was saying, your mom...

>>107754669
fed triggered

>>107754667
your idea of fighting is doing nothing and getting left in the dust
you have no recourse here
if you were actually fighting you'd switch to linux and be a demographic significant enough for them to cave on anticheat support and not be a literal npc making safe decisions

>>107754710
Fine then, but you will say all this shit about "fighting", but then throw a fit if anyone gives Tim credit for using his fortune to actually sue the biggest tech companies and win. So I suspect its less about principles and more about being a Steam fanboy

>>107754762
so you're extrapolating now?
fuck off
this is about windows, not whatever else you want to suck his cock for and there's no argument to be made that you could possibly be fighting anything on windows

>>107754762
>IMAGINE BELIEVING CORPORATIONS ARE YOUR FRIEND LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO
>btw Tim is on your side actually you steam fanboy!

>>107754762
>sues them to get more money from children
how exactly does this benefit me? i want linux on a phone where those freedoms are built in, not to play garbage on jeetdroid or gayphone

>>107754843
nta but the case bans Google from paying phone makers to lock the phone to only allow the Play store

>>107752378
>30% tax when Apple does it
except we pay for that
>30% tax when Microsoft does it
no one buys Microsoft products
>30% tax when Google does it
no one buys Google products
>30% tax when Valve does it
On checkout I don't see a 30% tax, so I don't care

>>107754873
if that actually came to pass i would've just bought a freetard phone a month before
this doesn't benefit me, i want android gone and timmy sure isn't working to improve that

>>107749765
Benevolent Dictator For Life governance model. All good software follows this model.

>>107750101
>>107753988
dont forget you have to go to a SPECIFIC store to get preorder DLC bullshit and before that, SPECIFIC stores would refuse to sell certain games because of their own brand image (wallmart wouldnt sell games over a certain violence threshhold, for example) so if you only had 1 kindof store in your town you were FUCKED if you wanted something on release. I played a game before steam that had fuckhuge patches so you could request the developer to send you a cd instead with the latest updates but that was super rare.

>>107752378
>logon to steam
>90% sale
>buy a game for a dollar

when valve taxes a game company, they tax the company. when everyone else does it, they take you the consumer. Go fuck yourself sweeny todd, Im not installing the epic store nor will I let googleplay know my location.

>>107755028
gabe is the last great white boomer alive, hes a representation of what the world could have been but never will be

>>107753948
Where can I find this? Asking for my son.

>>107750145
All of this, and
>barely there drm that's not even required and some games don't even have it
>the social aspect: you can compare your gaming progress to your friends
>just werks, is practically easier than pirating