Many people praise steam. Why? It's an ok game store but it always had some weird Jewish shit, like paying 5$ to add friends and have the right to speak.Other game stores have flaws too, for example epic doesn't have user reviews.I just don't get the steam praise.
>>732192431>Other game stores have flaws too, for example epic doesn't have user reviews.Thats actually a positive. Most steam reviews are full of pure retards
>>732192431>why do people like steam!?because every other store is worse
>>732192431finely a Lawsuit (that always goes nowhere) that I get behind
>Steam gave me a good service for many many years and I had no reason to complain with my purchases>literally every other option besides GoG is liquid dogshitGee I wonder.Also if you want to talk about "Jewish shit", Timmy needed years to add a shopping cart so people who actually WANTED to use his store had to buy games one at a time and eventually ended up getting blocked for "suspicious purchases". And then he wonders why literally NO ONE buys games on his store.
>>732192431>It's an ok game store but it always had some weird Jewish shit, like paying 5$ to add friends and have the right to speak.Any time you see a weird design choice like this, you just need to remind yourself that its because 3rd world niggers couldn't help themselves and made infinite accounts to botspam shit that made them pennies via events or the marketplace.
>>732192431Generous sales, top tier support, little interference in communities, linux gaming.It has it's flaws, censorship is a big one, caving to payment processors. With some other more niche example like "Devotion" or "Horses" more recently.There isn't better, that's the main things.GoG is sort of doing it's own things and not aiming straight at Steam's turf. Compatibility for old titles and No DRM. It's a given they would have support by virtue not being comically bad/incompetent.inb4 do nothing and win.
>>732192431>sidharta f. rasidiLegit AI made fake clickbait news.
>>732192431>Other game stores have flaws too, for example epic doesn't have user reviews.Out of all review sources Steam user reviews are the most worthless.
>>732192480How are you supposed to find out if the game has game breaking bugs five hours in?
>reviews from people who actually played the game are worthless>unlike my favorite shill sitesBeyond retarded take. Probably bait, so no (you) for you.
>>732192431>paying 5$ to add friends and have the right to speak.That's to keep poorfucks and bots from bothering people. I had no idea this was a thing until the 3rd world started flooding the service and started complaining. Imagine any other store where some fucking goblin is just standing there bothering people but refuses to buy anything.
>>732192431Steam doesn’t set the regional pricing, publishers do. That lawsuit is a farce.
>>732193365I mean not to disparage actual users that leave actual reviews, but the paid review cancer has moved on to steam.It's not too difficult to find actual reviews written by actual users with useful info though.
>>732193365>reviews from people who actually playedThe majority of steam reviews are by redditors posting le epic maymays, 1 word garbage, children throwing tantrums because "woke" shit is in the game, or developer dick slobbering that feel suspiciously as if they were told what to post.
>>732192431>$5The account is free, they just wanna make sure you own a game before they let you shitpost and scam people.The limited account thing also prevents people from having one big account and a bunch of free accounts to join the big account's "family" for access to a bunch of free games too.If Steam made you pay them to unlock these features, then yeah, that's pretty jewish, but nigga, all they want is for you to own a fuckin' game on the game launcher to make sure you're real.Unless you exclusively only play F2P games, don't buy bundles, don't buy games, don't even buy cheap indie games, that shouldn't be a problem, it's a self-solving issue, it's not like EGS where you only make an account just to collect free games every week while Timmy bitches and moans 24/7 with his Fortnite/UE-inflated ego that he doesn't own the whole industry.>>732192751This.>>732193365>try to use reviews to learn if a game on EGS is good or not>the whole service uses this weird-ass system where you can't even actually review anything unless you're randomly chosen to review a game you play a lot>you don't even get to write a review, there's just a bunch of tags you click and a star rating and that's it>this results in super vague, soft-handed, brown nosing of games because not only are the tags kinda useless, but only giving review permission to random people that play the game a lot means only people that like said game can review it, because anyone who doesn't like it wont play it for longAlso:>played a ton of Dauntless and a few other games on EGS (for free, duh), including a couple hundred hours of Death Stranding 1>got permission to review a game one time (don't remember which one though)>didn't see the little alert until another page was in the middle of loading>never got to review that game>never saw another chance to review anything ever againComplete bullshit.
>>732192431It's like 4chan vs. the rest of the internet. It's not good but everywhere else is worse.
>>732194371>They want you to own a gameWe could joke about this if you think you own them.>They want you to own a gameWhat about free to play games?
>>732192480>>732193301>steam reviews are useless>when theyre the only means a customer has to force a change through giving a negative reviewBeing against steam reviews means that youre an inexcusable bootlicker. Theres a reason epic doesnt have them because it gives consumers too much power.
>>732194494>What about free to play games?We already told you about the 3rd world niggers man READ >>732192751
>>732192431I pay a tiny, tiny fraction for games on steam compared to what I used to have to pay on consoles, made even cheaper by the key market valve facilitates that they don't even take any cut from. I'm basically paying $1-5 per game now when I used to have to pay $40-70 + tax. And steam offers so fucking many more benefits and services than consoles ever did. I don't understand how this lawsuit is even a thing.
>>732194754Tim Sweeney just really hates PC gaming.
>>732194494>We could joke about this if you think you own them.Okay, "own", whatever. I know you know what I mean.>What about free to play games?Oh yeah sure, invalidate the whole "make sure the user's real" thing by letting people just play a free indie game for 3 seconds so they can move on to scamming people or making "rental" accounts they can charge people to play on via family share.
>>732192431Because it's by far the best option and actually cares about customers and treats them well.
>>732192431Steam is the only store faggot
>>732194754>And steam offers so fucking many more benefits and services than consoles ever did.And all on a completely open platform where you can do whatever you want and anyone is allowed to just make their own store to compete. Not to mention Valve then takes their profits and pumps them into projects like Proton and FEX, open-source compatibility software that literally benefits everybody except Microsoft. This kind of lawsuit just reeks of trying to drag the best down because nobody else is good enough.
reminder that GoG sells games with DRM and thus is functionally no different to steam, as both services sell games with and without drm, the only difference is the ratio
>>732195632name 3 gog games with drm, and which form of drm
>>732194754>I pay a tiny, tiny fraction for games on steam compared to what I used to have to pay on consoles,Console and steam game prices are the same. Discounts are also the same.
>>732196264its just easier to link you to the gog's forums own thread about it, senpaihttps://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1
>>732197283Incorrect, especially for Nintendo.
>>732195569Yeah tell that to the new Gabe's boat
>>732192431The $5 rule is a good one that hurts nobody, if you have an account on Steam you will be buying something worth at least $5. The absence of that $5 hurdle would make bot accounts and scammers an even bigger plague on steam than they are today
>>732192431>Excessive steam store feesIts literally the same as Epic, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, ect. 30% is a standard rate>Inflates pricesValve has no control over prices. They are set by the publisher, not Gabe Newell and if anything Steam Sales deflate the prices and keep them from being like Nintendo forever $70
>>732197336Inclusively for Nintendo, which games are not on steam. Let's see ps5 and pc gamesRed dead redemption 2GTA 5God of warSpidermanCyberpunk Elden ring All of these games are priced the same. Pc games are not cheaper, whenever a discount on ps5 comes, it comes to PC as well and vice versa. And it's the same discount.
>>732197346Valve makes so much fucking money for how relatively tiny they are that Gayben can buy his own fleet for all I care. They're still doing far more beneficial things with their profits than anyone else.
>>732197425Epic rate is 18% or 12% i think or 10%. Source: reliable source
>>732193830>but the paid review cancer has moved on to steamTotal journalist death.
>>732197481>They're still doing far more beneficial things with their profits than anyone elseThey have a fucking videogame store. How is that a "GREAT THING"? They're just sellers! They just sell videogames!
>>732197425>Steam Sales deflate the prices and keep them from being like Nintendo forever $70That is something you totally made up and makes no sense. There are tons of games on steam that cost up to 100-120$ for the "deluxe buttplug edition"
>>732197506Oh I'm sorry this goes into explaining why Epic is still considered unprofitable
>>732197476>Inclusively for Nintendo, which games are not on steamIt's not just Nintendo's games, which are free on PC, I mean games like the Binding of Isaac which released years later for $70 on Nintendo, compared to $50 for the full game on Steam. You also listed like 6 games. There's way, way more games on PC and when you factor in sites like Fanatical and Humble, consoles don't come anywhere close. You can often get new games off Fanatical with around 20% discounts before they're even out.
>>732197604But unlike Nintendo they actually go on sale. About the only game I can think of that doesn't is factorio because the developer is greedy as fuck
>>732197549And saving handhelds, Linux and ARM and letting me freely share my entire fuckhueg library with my friends and family while giving me full controller support with anything I want all while having readily accessible and relevant information about the game I'm playing be a click away.
>>732192431>I just don't get the steam praise.It's been around since before most Anons were even born at this point, and Valve/Steam has been coasting on goodwill they fostered in the mid to late 2000s ever since. All the really gay shit like pioneering battlepasses, popularizing lootboxes, voice codecs being so fucking awful Discord was born as a result, etc gets lost to time
>>732197476RDR2 is $60 right now on PSN and $15 on Steam
>>732197670>You can often get new games off Fanatical with around 20% discounts before they're even outIt stacks too with coupon codes. When I bought Starfield premium before launch I literally paid less then the base game
>>732197670>It's not just Nintendo's games, which are free on PCWhy do you consider piracy when we talk about business? Nintendo games are free on pc but not given from a company, therefore the process is very difficult. The point of a game store is to make things easy and accessible.
>>732192431Ive been seeing threads like this and I always wondered if they're legit, do these anons want egs and microsoft store the rule the pc gaming market or something/
>>732197670Didn't know that. Sounds like a lot of work though
>>732197705And f.e.a.r.
>>732197757Oh. Whoops. My bad.>Steam sells it cheaper than ps5That hurts sales. People buy it for 15 instead of 60. Steam hurts business once again.
>>732198061Console users aren't people.
>>732197283>Console and steam game prices are the same. Discounts are also the same.Lol. Lmao even. Le meow, I dare say. :3Still a dogshit game, but you get the point.
>>732197889No, we want to break the monopoly. Microsoft is a monopoly so we praise Linux.Steam is a monopoly so we praise egs Linux gaming falls back so we... wait hold on...
>>732197889OP is a tendie trying to sow dissent amongst PCfags
>>732198124I wouldn't say that. I always thought pc is the obvious gaming choice if you have basic computer skills, but seeing today's hardware prices I realized that console people are the most based. $350 for a ps5? The pc equivalent costs around 1500!
>>732197863>The point of a game store is to make things easy and accessible.The point of a game is to be unplayable on half it's native systems as well, it would seem.It should be illegal to sell XC2 to Switch Lite owners.
>>732197889>Ive been seeing threads like this and I always wondered if they're legitThey're made by seething consolefags.
>>732198256>no ultrawide resolutions>few games at 60 fps or above>no mods no tweaks>paid online>only a handful of retro compatible games>a lot of the time the pro version of a game look and run worse>current AAA landscape is a joke
>>732198621Only the paid online is an important issue
>>732198256Delusional It's $1100 to match a pro and that deal will soon sour as console stocks dry up and contracts get renegotiated
>>732198723>I don't like videogames
>>732192431Because valve is the only company that seeks to improve the ecosystem instead of just garnishing wages forever?
>>732192431it generally gives customers what they want and is one of the few online platforms left that hasn't been made shit on purpose in an effort to extract more money from themwhich is an extremely low bar to clear to be sure but this is where we are
>>732198256>The pc equivalent costs around 1500!The equivalent of a PS5 Pro is around $800 with all new parts on NewEgg. Buy a used GPU and CPU and you could probably get it down to $600. You are a tech illiterate nigger looking at pre-builts.
>>732199043They've been seeking for decades and what do we have? SEEKS!
>>732199154Let me remind you that a simple ps5 has a gpu with 16g vram and 256 bit bus width. Find a cheap gpu like that and you solved the economy >>732199067
>>732198256obvious shill no one talks like this
>>732199190No, they've only started doing anything in 2020The future is>Linux and proton liberating people from Microsoft>proton enabling playing games on any device as it'll support arm>killing of obsolescence that will come around as a result of devs wanting to sell on arm and working on settings that make it viable to play there>SteamOS and steam big picture killing the retard appeal of consoles>High tech first party controllers that don't get beaten by chinkware on features >Seamless and open VR without cables>Kickstarting form factors that supplant consoles Meanwhile Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Epic and GOG just stay in their lane
>>732199250With the PS5's raw power, you're never even getting to the point to using 16GB VRAM (shared ram too, so more like 10) realistically.
>>732192431>Many people praise steam.Not really. People just use it because it's convenient, and tell whining Epic shills to fuck off. I sometimes shop at Target, and if Target protestors in the parking lot got in my way then I'd spit at them for inconveniencing me, but that doesn't mean I "praise" Target.Stopped reading there because the premise of your argument is wrong.
>>732192480In majority of cases that doesn't involve chinks, you probably deserved the deluge of meme reviews
>>732197863>Why do you consider piracy when we talk about business?Because it's relevant. If Nintendo were actually selling their games on PC, I wouldn't have brought it up since there'd be a direct comparison. As it stands, their games are free.
>>732200287This. Valve doesn't get fanboys the same way console do because there's no initial investment and sunk cost to defend. People don't have to buy steam to use it and then desperately cope with and try to justify that decision no matter what happens, unlike consoles that'll bend over backwards for every shitty thing they do. If they like the store, they use it, if they don't, they uninstall. If they have a library and valve does something shitty, it's piss easy to crack it. There's no stockholm or battered housewife syndrome born of zero recourse.
>>732197302>has Twitch drops which require Galaxy and a connected account. And Twitch of course. lmao, great list
