realistically what's stopping steam from just banning everyone who plays picrel, there's a 99% chance that anyone playing it is currently pirating something
Gaben don't f*cking care
Valve thinks piracy is good for the industry.
Well if you ban them they buy zero games vs now where they buy some games and pirate others.
>>729090267the only time I used this was to play dark souls ptde edition since bandai removed from steam
I don't know wtf that game even is
>>729090267?
>>729090496>>729090502I think so too but i find it hard to believe that any company would hold that sentiment
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>>729090267Valve is like the most profitable company ever, why would they hurt their image doing something as foolish as banning people for having fun?
>>729090267>>729090861Because they would end up banning legitimate gamedevs in the process.https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/api/exampleSpacewar has two uses, the game acts as a reference implementation for the steamworks API, but valve also allow developers to use it's appid (480) for their own games to test some basic steamworks functionality (multiplayer) so they don't need to fill out all the forms and pay for their own appid.
>>729090638The problem is that going that far to ban people that have 'played' spacewar would hit so many normal accounts as well, there would literally be class action lawsuits going up against them.It serves no purpose and creates a shit ton of work(meaning less profit)
>>729090267Bad PRDoesn't accomplish anythingPeople will just move under another game's name
>>729090267They should absolutely ban it but Valve has built their company on appealing to scoundrels and bandits
>>729090267because pirates also buy games
>>729090267if you are developing a game using the steam API it will show up as spacewar. Like, when I was getting steam lobbies/invites working in unity, steam said I was playing spacewar since the game wasn't actually published. It's not just for piracy
>>729090267it has legitimate uses.some devs use it to test steamapi before getting a game up,modders add multiplayer support using it,
>>729090267apart from gaben inventing steam solely to fuck over people who are gamers (seriously he admitted to making steam solely so you couldn't sell HL2 after you beat it since it was tied to your email account)He explained this when he brought steam to russia and people pointed out they'd still pirate. He's fine taking a loss short term if it gives him more money long termSteam deck and t he new faggot cube is going to be also sold below price it's worth. The idea is to lock retards into steam
>>729090267Because they gain nothing from it. And even if they did, the pirates would use another demo or just use a emu to play multiplayer
Pretty sure Spacewar is also used for multiplayer mods and game devs testing shit.But regardless, people would just go from pirating lots of games but buying some to pirating everything.As soon as one of these digital platforms on PC starts banning people and locking access to their libraries in their entirety, the entire paid PC gaming ecosystem will collapse, because it will literally be safer to just pirate everything instead of risking your account because you have pirated software on your PC (which everyone has).Plus it would be super hypocritical of Valve considering they had fucking Yuzu in one of their Steam Deck ads a few years ago.
>>729093283>The idea is to lock retards into steamI don't think that's going to work for the 'eck considering you can just boot it into desktop mode and use it like you would any other computer.
For Valve, it's much more important that Steam users feel they have ownership over their digital purchases, rather than stop a trivial amount of piracy. Your suggestion is what exactly? That valve should lock people out of their accounts for playing Spacewar? You should call them up and tell them, I'm sure they will hire you as a CTO.
>>729093379And look at how good that worked on the deck, anonWe've been through this thousands of times when people bring that point upYou, the autistic retard who buys a faggotcube for 'le hecking windows' is not the market they are targeting. It's the soccer moms, the fratbros, in otherwords: bro what's a computer? Is this like my sony nintengo switch? Can I fifa on it? What about the nhl? Does it have the fortnite?That's all they fucking care for and it's why it sold>>729093608Because zoom-zooms think gabe is something other than a greedy cunt who's trying to ruin pc gaming
>>729093313Exactly, the day GoG, Steam, or Epic closes shop is the END of PC Gaming unless they go back to the era of practically giving away the games. I already don't buy digital on console because of the shutdown history there, but if one of the big shops closes on PC I'm done.
>>729093676What frat bro is buying s steam cube
>>729093676>And look at how good that worked on the deck, anonHuh?What do you mean?>You, the autistic retard who buys a faggotcube for 'le hecking windows' is not the market they are targeting.What the hell are you talking about?You do realize that SteamOS has a desktop mode where it can literally just be used like any other PC, right?I pirate shit all the time on my 'eck.
>>729090638what do they have to gain except for turning away customers? steam is THE store because the sentiment about them being very consumer-friendly still exists.
>>729090267It’s used by Seamless Coop Fromsoft mods to do networking. Some other unofficial matchmaking systems use it too.Steam probably will restrict it in the near future though. Get ready for tons of shit people enjoy and use all the time to break when that happens.
>>729093947>You do realize that SteamOS has a desktop mode where it can literally just be used like any other PC, right?Ah, the shillI'll stop repsonding to you now.You keep on shilling for lord gaben. I'm sure that steamdeck that you have Windows 11 on is a fully hecking awesome 'personal computer'
>>729094027What the fuck are you even talking about?
>>729090861I pirate steam games all the time and I’ve never seen one where the app id was listed as spacewar. There’s no need to do that, steam cracks don’t need to obfuscate the id they just bypass steam’s drm.
>>729093959It's actually funny how much money they invested into PRWhen steam launched and gaben bragged that it was only to stop people selling HL2 after beating it, they were pretty much able to bring together several cracking groups solely to break the steam DRM which was funnyBut I guess if you throw enough money and pr and wait till zoomers arrive, you can change history to your liking
>>729094027nta, you are a retardIt's trivial to pirate on an 'eck and you don't need windows to do it, just the default desktop mode
>>729090530Its a test game, devs use it to test achievements
Before the usualy 5-6 shills fully try to derail the threadSteamdeck wasn't markted as a pirate machine. IT was marketed as a 'pc gaming for non-computer people' and the new faggotcubeIt'll be sold at the same loss of about 300-400 that the faggotdeck was in order to lock in new customersEnd of reality. You may now shill
Spacewar bros our time is now
>>729094364Poorfag seethe is palpable from this post
>>729094151>There’s no need to do that, steam cracks don’t need to obfuscate the id they just bypass steam’s drm.Spacewar cracks are for multiplayer. Some no-LAN multiplayer games like EDF can be played with other spacewar enjoyers.
>>729090267yeah whatever
>>729094164We've been worshiping at the altar of Gaben for almost 15 years, most zoomers were still shitting in their diapers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw&list=RDbUo1PgKksgw&start_radio=1Uploaded 13 years ago. You are right, Steam was not received well at first, but that changed fairly rapidly.
>>729094164>PRFunny way to type "video game sales." People started liking Steam because it had great sales and worked fine. At this point the sales usually aren't so great anymore but the competition is much worse and Steam - for the most part - avoids shooting itself in the foot in a disastrous manner that would alienate lots of users.
>>729094459What released during the peak?
Steam will last until GabeN diesThe minute after he dies private equity will swoop in, squeeze a trillion dollars out of it in a quarter, then drive all of its users away
>>729090267It's used for legit stuff as well. Free VR games use that to hook SteamVR.
>>729097216So it'll last longer than GOG?
>>729090267You do know that developers use it to test mp and api, right?
