What advise would you give him to defeat Steam?
>>723146167I would tell him to stop relying on fucking retarded ESLs (like yourself) for marketing purposes Pranjeet.
just put your games on steam lil bro.maybe if you put your pride aside you could turn a profit
sell games significantly cheaper than steamthats it
>>723146167KYS Sanjay
>>723146241But he's literally already giving them away for free...
>>723146241Steam doesn't allow that. They don't want devs to use their resources but cut them out of the sales of the game.
fix the ui its just so unappealing, it needs to also have all the social media shit that trannies go googoo gaga over steam for like the community stuff and profiles and achievements. If it looked great and felt great and had kino socialness it would have done a lot better
>>723146167invent a time machine
pretend to step down and hire a good looking guy to represent him in his place and just tell him to repeat the same thing you do but not in a retarded way.that's probably all it'll take for people to realize he's not wrong.
Anyone that has used the store steam should be killed.Don't mention it. No thread about it.Any invalid because of it either. Anyone that has used it: gone. Traitor.A hub like thepiratebay where people try, for free, pay for what they like, all elements listed. That better than a fucking store online taking a percentage doing nothing but causing inhibition.Like 4chan. Moderators.Freeedom is good. With it you can make. Bound by rape you make that in whatever cell you are left with. Chosen to have rapists above you you make that true and yourself nothing.Kill anyone that has used steam.Keep prison, torture etc degredation and impairment, from being connected and claiming themselves responsible for progress and art.It (progress, art) survives through standards kept in play and in examples.replacement is not advancementNot by these bastards that would erase it.And make a hell none would appreciate, or worse, do.
Valve and PC gaming is basically garbage at this point. We get no real good games aside from shitty indie slop and everyone just plays old games.You need to somehow make multiple great games, basically Tim's own orange box. Making god like great games will be more than enough to kill steam's monopoly. But I doubt investor suits would risk something like that in 2025. Better to make slop and make number go up. Who cares about long game?As much as I want valve to get rekt by a competent studio it's just not gonna happen. No one cares and no one will fund them.
>>723146167>Timberly's gotten THIS desperate
>>723146167Remake his launcher with sleekest design possible, since zoomies like it and it's more important than focusing on convenience for devs (where he is presumably focused)
>>723146167completely uncensored clone of steam workshop with complete integration for every game, online games includedadd porn gamesday one -30% discount for every game (the cut steam takes you give to the users instead)yearly airdrop of EGS tokens you can sell for cash/gamesmake launcher super lightweight, if it takes more that 4 seconds to boot up it's still too bloated
keep giving me free games and I promise I'll spend 1000% more money on your store, Timmy. sure 1000% of $0 is still $0, but it's the thought that counts.
Probably not being a console loving kike who wanted PC gaming dead until he saw how much money Gabe made with Steam and got jealous.
>>723146241He already does that with cashback that is even up to 20% sometimes.
>>723146167Chew less on remotes
>>723146734>good morning, sir
>>723146167Let GOG have the exclusives instead.
>>723147993>7.6MB/s is good enough for everyone, goy>be a good old goy
>>723146167>>723146612>>723147006UI is the answer. It basically needs a new website and program. made from ground up
>>723148194No store except Steam offers anything like small mode. It's so retarded the way other store launchers are designed.
Find a time machine, go back in time, take his head out of his ass, listen to the feedback he received. Then offer some good sales for a few years.
>>723148128Yes, yes it is. Any game above 10 GB is already suspicious to me.
>>723146167Whatever you're doing now, stop. Please stop. You're wrong.If a Chinese businessman (that owns 1/3 of your company) tells you to add something, throw an egg roll at him and tell him to fuck himself. The less you look like a Chinese scam launcher, the more comfortable human beings will be using your launcher.Let humans review and discuss games. Let humans share screenshots. Pretend human beings matter on your launcher for humans. Yes, it's hard. Those little buggers are shifty, I know. Try it, though.Steam's UI is caught between the sterile original UI and some kind of modern Apple inspired big picture dogshit for fags and children. You can beat them there if you drop the sterile Chinese unfriendly UI and make something that draws people in. It's your only realistic chance to pull ahead.
>>723146412Steam doesn't allow that for Steam keys, which is fair. They're fine with you selling your game for cheaper on other stores, as long as that other store manages everything like installing the game and cloud saves and shit.
>>723148448>cheers from BrazilAlso, that speed is retarded. It would have taken me 2 hours to download that game (then I would have had to manually install it afterwards). If I used Galaxy, it still would have capped out at 100MB/s or so.
>>723146891Good morning sir.
>>723146167>What advise would you give him to defeat Steam?Stay the course, steam are already eroding all their good will when they bow to the electric jew
>>723146891>As much as I want valve to get rektGenuinely why would you want that? Valve is by far the most pro consumer and benevolent company in the gaming industry. If they go, PC will be enshittified in the span of a couple years and be no better than consoles are now.
>>723146167>more featuresmake a client that doesn't break constantly>give some big games for super cheap so people do spend money
>Epic takes less in % of a sale>price is still the same on Steambased retards
>>723148743>and the developer makes less money anyway because nobody buys on Epic
>>723148719>Valve is by far the most pro consumer and benevolent company in the gaming industry.Anon, this isn't 2000s anymore. Did you pay attention to what Valve was doing in the last decade or so?
Literally do any fucking thing that makes gaming less of a cluster fuck, like the controller wrangler that steam has now.Pretty much the only thing Epic brings to the table is cross play with console, but even that is external to the Epic launcher. Epic also has a mobile store, but there's no cross buy between it and the PC store, so that's more low hanging fruit they haven't plucked.tl;dr do something, anything
>>723148951>Did you pay attention to what Valve was doing in the last decade or so?Allowing you to legally share your games?Supporting a fat people OS for lunatics?Providing a built in game streaming service?Fixing shitty control schemes in old games?Yeah, those guys suck.
>>723148951Name another company that has spent as much as Valve has developing Steam over the years, and generating goodwill, and the platform features to show for it.>Login to Steam>Your own profile>Shows what you're playing>Shows your reviews>Shows your friends what you're playing>Supports user created groups>Supports user curated content, art>Supports ETC.and the list goes on and on.
>>723149031>>723149135Those are the best you could come up with to make valve look good in 2025?Now behold: https://valvetruth.blogspot.com/2023/04/after-watching-platform-of-steam-and.html
>>723146241https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/features/epic-rewardsHe's doing that right now. Considering Steam hit an all time high yesterday and games like Battlefield 6 and Borderlands 3 outsell their EGS counterparts 99:1, it isn't working.
>>723149228not reading a schizo link
>>723149228>blogspotNot reading.
>>723149228>First bullet point is schizo rambling about Sweet BabyAnnnnnd tab closed.
>>723146167to kill himself, since his autistic nigger chink-owned retardation is what keeps epig gays being a retarded nigger company that shits out shitty jeet engines and can't even code a shopping cart or any fucking thing into their shitty "store"and hopefully whoever takes over after him removes the fucking spyware faggotry from unstraight troongine, oh yeah and makes it runnable instead of a stuttering ugly mess, even unity is better at framerates
>>723149031>selling steam decks at a loss, constantly updating Steam Decks for free>creating awesome VR content in spite of META ruining the market>promoting tiny indie games on a global platform>tolerating user reviews for 20 years>giving everyone HL2 commentary for freeTheir second place rival doesn't even do 1/8 of what Valve does. It's not even a close competition and they still keep making cool shit and improving their platform. It's like a runner is three laps ahead of everyone else and he just keeps going faster.
>>723146167user profiles to flaunt hours played and achievementsit's dead without it
>>723149228https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Slistingservice/discussions/0/1519260397777204288/
>>723149251Steam also has reward points. Show a lower price than Steam store.
>>723146167It’s not just about building a storefront. Valve had an actual library of games enforcing their ecosystem. Fortnite alone isn’t enough. You need a lineup to actually get the ball rolling.
>low effort steam shills when they meet an actual oldfag autist without memory of a goldfishpatheticthis is why no one argues with steam drones
>>723149341They have a comparable library (and are the only competing store that does), but the launcher is so shitty that nobody wants to use it.
>>723149336Steam reward points are worthless. Nobody is buying a $70 game so they can get some funbux to spend on chat emojis.
>>723149408>anti-jeethate poster uses Takao-lite as his avatar>this guy uses Takao-lite as his avatar
>>723147520this guy gets it
>>723146167he should make a modding platform like Skyrim dude is sitting on gold but he's dumb
>>723149442I traded them for tf2 hats
>>723147993Gog is going out of business
>>723149251>Earn 20% back on epic slopCan't they just make everything 20% cheaper?
>>723149546How? They have the most games, sell the most copies of games, and have the fastest download speeds. I use GOG Input and GOG Link all the time in addition to GOG Family Sharing.
>>723149525EGS has that. Two games use it.>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/all-mods/a-total-war-saga-troy?sortBy=installs&sortDir=DESC&count=40>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/all-mods/mechwarrior-5?sortBy=installs&sortDir=DESC&count=40
>>723149408good morning saar, please do not redeem the needful bloody bitch benchode lasagna
>>723149679no one cares about those games, I'm talking about a game to kill elder scrolls in gameplay and modding
>>723148951Yes.In the past decade or so they've:Added incredibly useful features like Steam Input and Workshop that other companies would have locked behind an extra subscription.Basically single-handedly turned Linux from a meme into an actually usable OS, allowing people to finally leave microdick and jeetdows.Generally NOT enshittified anything like any other company in their position would do.And so on. Sure, they've done some bad things, like lootboxes and paid mods, but even then, they've been better about them than other companies would have. They allow you to resell your lootbox items which no one else does, and they immediately apologised and backed off of paid mods and never tried it again, while bethesda is still doing it.
First-party exclusives.Gamers are autistically retarded about this, but for some reason they think exclusivity is fine if you made the game and it's not fine if you pay for the exclusivity.Generous loyalty system.Developers are not allowed to undercut Steam on other platforms due to the terms of Steam. So you need to undercut steam in a way that's legal, like a loyalty system where practically, games sold on Epic games are cheaper.Match basic steam features before pushing your platform. First impressions are important, when you're dropping millions upon millions to claw market share, you better make sure the underlying platform is at the very least equivalent in the most basic features, before you spend that money.DRM free, eventually.It doesn't need to be specifically this, but picking some moral hill to of consumer rights will help shield you from criticism. GoG has many fans for purely ideological reasons, including myself. From a purely clinical perspective, it's a good idea to take a moral highground.
>>723148951Yeah, it was pretty based how they told companies to stop scamminh people with shitty season passes, supported Linux or slapped a big warning sign on all early access scams that got abandoned.
