>This is what Steam will do 0.01 seconds after Gaben dies.
>>732747374Actually, he'll pick one random Steam account to be the new owner of Valve. And it's gonna be me and I'll put futa games on the frontpage.
Why? Does steam have CP sharing and grooming discussion boards?
>>732747450gay
>>732747450zased
>>732747450No changes then? bold.
>>732747374steam already does this if your in the UK
Good. Keeping groomers, children and tinfoil hat retards off the internet would be the best thing to ever happen to it.
>>732747374pretty sure steam already has this but its not phrased the same. you dont have a real steam account until you spend 5 dollars on steam. which means you gave a credit card number.
>>732748932Minors can have bank accounts and can be gifted games and vouchers when they don't.
>>732748851If it works...
trooncord really opened up the market for rivals now, no? people had no trouble ditching skype, vent, ts, mumble, raidcall etc before it
>>732748726this. discord users seriously lack self awareness
>>732749429Seeing absolutely nothing happened after Twitter implemented the exact same thing last year in whole Europe, they'll be fine.
>>732749429Discord offered better features, mostly public chatrooms unlike skype which were clunky. It had moderation tools that let people delegate 'heirarchies' of mods, which teenagers are deeply attracted to because kids at the age play their stupid highschool games
>>732748726>not grooming young russian twinks in cs lobbies
shut the fuck up tim
>>732749560Literally anything else had the primary feature of file transfer. Discord fails massively and records every single thing you say.
>>732749592Wish I had a cute twink bf, although not eastern european if possible
>>732747374How does this retarded meme of Gaben being this bulwark against shit practices continue to exist in 2026?
>>732747450based
it'll be required by law retard
>>732747450if gabe doesn't pull a willy wonka to decide his successor I will be deeply disappointed
>>732749853>shut down WON to force everyone to use Steam as a DRM client to play games they already paid for online>axed multiplayer from Half-Life 2 to sell separately >deliberately manipulated and primed TF2's playerbase into getting excited for microtransactions and lootboxes>made standard social features like sprays an exhaustible paid item in CS:GO, and went after server owners that let you use whatever skins you want>literally invented the battle pass with Dota 2Valve under Gabe has genuinely been scum, and people just give them a pass because of things that are either A) stuff that the courts absolutely forced them to do (e.g. the refund policy) or B) stuff they didn't even do themselves and instead basically just threw money at (Proton and FEX)
>>732749853>>732750204Don't forget Valve being the one in the partnership with Bethesda to push for paid mods, with Gabe himself saying "Actually money is how the community steers work"
>>732750281Valve actually backed out of it and acknowledged it was a bad move. It was Bethesda's idea, and they continue to insist on it.Also reminder that lootboxes were first popularized by eastern F2P mmo's like Maple Story and FIFA, not TF2.
>>732750117we're definitely seeing a coordinated push from every western government to make the entire internet like this, yesdon't you think this is a bit of a problem
>>732750281There is nothing wrong with paid mods. Modders should be compensated for their work. That said Bethesda and Valve do not deserve a cut at all since modders are adding value to their games and platform.
>>732750342>Valve actually backed out of itThey don't get credit for fucking anything when they were pushing it in the first place. You don't give credit to someone threatening you with a knife just because they then put it away.>It was Bethesda's idea and they continue to insist on it No, it was Valve that first approached Bethesda with the idea in 2012. The whole creation club thing isn't really comparable either, since that's more akin to licensed content a la Final Doom.>Also reminder that lootboxes were first popularized by eastern F2P mmo's like Maple Story and FIFAWho cares. That's not what was touched upon.As was said here >>732750204 the scummy thing with Valve is that they actively conditioned the players to be excited by microtransactions and lootboxes. That they put active effort into tying hats into the identity of TF2 and trying to give them status so that they could then start offering at a price in what was still a paid release at the time.
>>732747450there's already futa shit on the frontpage
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>>732747374Not really, Gabe is actually a lazy fuck and follows the "do nothing to win" approach, while his son, who's most likely to succeed his position, is anti-consoles to an extreme and will follow an "aggressively pro-consumer" stance in order to drive playstation and xbox out of the market.
futa girls rock
>>732747450This board needs a homosexual purge.
>>732750736Gaben actively genocided Chinks by making the cosmetics in CS2 cheaper and more accessible for everyone.
>>732747374*after some mossad agents knock at his door and tell him that they need some extra goy control
>>732750736Valve accepted that it was a shit idea. Bethesda kept insisting on it and told people to suck a fat one basically.Attempts to condition people to accept microtransactions were already pushed by eastern MMO's like Maple Story which were way more jewish than TF2 hats. The microtransactions EA wanted in FIFA were also way more kiked. Tf2 is a free game and only has cosmetics.Funny how people like you will bitch about Valve but ignore companies like Capcom putting actual cheats microtransactions in their paid products because that doesn't count, shut up.
Valve should buy some ASML machinery and start making their own chips and hardware.
>>732750640>>732750640Paid mods is worse for the consumer in every single way.Hell the product itself is simply worse.
>>732747374and?gaming is a hobby. it is not essential. you can just not use steam.or you can accept giving away more informational about yourself and use it.EU is suggesting a universal e-ID standard. that's what you should pretend to be worried about as a "privacy enthusiast"
>>732747374Steam doesn't need to do that because you'll presumably have a credit card linked to your account, which is already a form of age verification.
>>732749429Discord is so good that people don't even use it for games which is cooked. My academic network uses it to discuss shit between universities and coordinate events. It is stupid as fuck.
>my account is already 17 years oldGood luck
>>732750640Bethesda and Valve do deserve a cut but not as much as they get now. Bethesda would deserve like 1% if that of the price because they made the game as a licence fee. Then Valve could have whatever the hosting/platform costs are which is probably 2% then 3% goes to your country as taxes. That is all.
>>732753984>Bethesda and Valve do deserve a cutWhy?
So where did this idea that Newell and Steam are friends come from? What exactly do they do for the players? Give discount, like every store does, and shiny achievements?Were paid mods player friendly too?Steamdrones are the only people left in the world who think that corporate is their friend.
>>732748857Bong here, it doesn't. Quick updated and rundown on what happened in the last six months.Valve requires you to attach a credit card to your accound and that's they only way they accept as ID. They aren't interested in government IDs or face scans at all. My account itself is older than 18 years but I was still required to add my credit card despite them having a record of it being used in 2006.Also of interest: If you want to bypass face ID, our school children figured out you could use Death Stranding 2's pose mode to trick it about 3 hours after it was first implemented. Any of the current AI scanning systems will accept that you are Norman Reedus and allow you to access any website you like.Other important detail: Pornhub first went along with our insane censorship, but has since backtracked and decided it's literally not worth the effort of processing UK ID, and as of this month decided to just geoblock the UK instead of playing games. Since 90% of the country now uses a VPN to access porn sites it only really affects a small minority of technologically illiterate horn dogs who will probably just go outside and commit crimes now instead or something, I don't know.
>>732754003One made the game and the other is hosting the files for download. That is what Anon was getting at I assume but all of this is retarded. If there was going to be anything (there probably should not be) then it would be best if there was a 'name your price' donate button that you can simply set to 0$.
>>732754218Only a matter of time before they start going after VPNs, there's already been talks about that in France. That's gonna be a fun game of whack-a-mole
>>732754574You literally can't. China can't.It's not possible on a technical level.Also it's not a matter of time because our government is in fact going after VPNs right now, but it will amount to nothing.Source: We tried to ban "encryption" ten years ago.
>>732748864Good goy>>732752142Same people are behind the push
>>732749524That's funny. No one told me about that and no one has asked me to show anything there.t. Finland
>>732754218>who will probably just go outside and commit crimes now instead or somethingThis is part of the goal, it creates excuses for more overreach
>>732749524That never happened lol
>>732754574they will claim they will and try to make people not use one the way they did with torrents.and that's about it.Goverments depend on VPNs even more than the casual public.
>>732749524Twitter blocked porn images for europe for about a week then reverted it.
>>732751985Valve doesn't have that kind of cash.
>>732748726It has anime games and discussions which are essentially the same thing.
>>732748851>>732750782>they don't realize steam has its own feed algorithm and they are telling on themselves.
>>732747450This but furry, because that’ll hopefully drive off all the tranime users.
>>732758216Lmao furfaggot hating anime like pottery.
>>732748726Peak threads were literally just people commenting on a discord and using it as a tool to openly groom children into being gay. They were proudly talking about adding underage players to make them more gay when the mods had to step in and shut them down. It's why you don't see any tolerance for those threads anymore. They were actual dens of pedophile discord trannies.
>>732757861Kek this. I like futa but dont play porn games so I have 0 futa shit on my front page
>>732754742You are falseflagging vermin.
Valve is basically a monarchy right now What happens when the good king dies?
>>732749853because steam drones are terminally online losers with nothing better to do than do free pr campaigns for valve (free of charge of course)
>>732751884>Tf2 is a free game and only has cosmetics.Nigger, the weapons?
>>732751671Thank you for your sacrifice.
>>732751985Semiconductor Fabs that make chips for commercial electronics cost 10s of Billions in CAPEX alone, even with how much money steam makes I doubt they're going to spend that much to expand into an industry that's doesn't have that much overlap with their existing business model.
>>732751671It would be easier to ban all faggots on /fit/
>>732747374I just use discord for talking to my friend while we game, so it turns out this change will have no effect on me because I'm not trying to join any adult only servers or stream.
>>732750342>>732751884I see drones are pushing a new agenda or two> "It was something EA said at a conference no one heard about and a korean game no one heard about that popularized lootboxes! Not Valve!."Plain disingenuous lies. Valve's Mann Co. Supply crates were invented by Valve themselves which would later get improved by csgo with tiered items system for extra greed and then blizzard copies this box cosmetic casino crap followed by rest of the industry including actual mmos and korean mmos and gacha cancer introduces themselves to digital world after they learn how low standard gamers have and that they'll gamble real money for worthless pixels. At the root of all this gacha cancer there is Valve. They popularized this shit, they shilled and normalized it. They are DIRECTLY responsible no matter how hard drones cope. Literal undeniable historical facts.>"It was again Bethesda who introduced the paid modding idea!!! They literally mindcontrolled my favorite billionaire! Leave him alone!"More lies. Valve came up with the idea to Bethesda. And they took 75% from mod sales while modders got 25%. LMAO. Fuck all the retards protecting this giga jewish corporation.
>>732754218but it does. literally cant look at porn games unless I attach a credit card. there is no other option to bypass it, even in accounts that are 18 years old you cannot look at porn without doing this
>>732747374Valve already have age verification. Its called owning a credit card.
>>732747374I created my Steam account before I was 18 so I faked my year of birth. I'm afraid of what will happen when I have to prove my identity at some point.Will I just be able to say whoopsy must have made a misclick and they'll change it or will they say, wait a minute... you purchased games you weren't allowed to. Yep that's against TOS bro sorry but your hundreds of games are gone!
>>732759836If you are on 4chan then you are a terminally online loser. We all have our separate causes that we autistically rally for but if you aren't terminally online then you never would have come to 4chan.
A storefront doing this is fine, especially if you could use identity to get your account back if you got hacked
>>732762015I never shilled a fucking corporation, endlessly, for years. I can't relate to valve drones at all.
>>732751985>valve should spend 5000% of their net worth on a factory
If Valve is so great why does everyone use Discord instead of just using Steam? Steam lets you do all the discord stuff, group chat, video streaming, voice chat, what do you need discod for?Oh right Discord is just 1000x better and you'll use it anyway even if you have to verify you're not 15, so stop whining.
>>732762015I've been on 4chan since 06 and I only check the boards for a few minutes every other daybesides that I'm rarely online, I have no social media but many rl friends, and I enjoy the outdoors a lotyour shut-in life is not everybody'syou can enjoy vidya and not be a loser
>>732747374>you've had you steam account for 40 years please verify your age.
>>732762419>>732762921The only person you're fooling is yourself. If you are here, at all, you are a terminally online loser. You just might not know it yet.
Discord is extremely accessible, centralised and feature rich. The alternatives are all ass.
>>732747374My biggest fear in life is the fact that GabeN will in fact die some day. Steam is so great and it will almost certainly become garbage as soon as he's gone
>>732749524>in whole EuropeYeah, because no one gives a shit about Europe, and your own people are even worse goycattle than the most corn syrup fed American.
>>732759657You're an astroturfing shill.
>>732760106One of your friends posted booba as a joke though a few years ago. Sorry, you've been locked out until you verify. It's painless! Just do it. Come ooooon. We already know everything already, a little more data won't hurt. Don't be a pussy leftist. Just submit.
>>732762862Nobody wants to keep their eggs in one basket. Steam is just as good but I won't be using it. >so stop whining.Why so upset?
>>732747374Steam already has your data and financial information
>>732749853You can use Steam without ever touching TF2
>>732749560skype wasn't clunky though when it was at it's best, retard.microshit bogged it down with bloat + ads, if they never did that I doubt anyone would have ever left for shitcord.
>>732747374gayben has been hand sculpting Robin for 200 years to make sure this doesn't happen tho
>>732768859>skype wasn't clunky though when it was at it's best
>>732748726well it does sell literal animated CSAM games and rape simulators, so...?
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>>732769003>animated >CSAMoxymoron>rape simulatorsfagboy gabe had that one removed from stores, unfortunately
>>732747374You already sold your data to Steam long ago
>>732760930That's what he said and it is the best possible move valve could have made.It is a massive red flag that X or Facebook ask for documents to prove your identity.Valve doesn't.All a credit card shows them is that you are 18, doesn't have your DOB on it, doesn't have your address or anything else on it like a Passport or Drivers license would.Valve are already dealing with and storing payment information, they adhere to the relevant regulations regarding encryption and data storage for payment information.So them holding your credit card is just normal for them and most people who already had one attached to steam.I said it was a perfect move for valve to use credit cards as a form of verifying age, because in the UK banks cannot provide credit cards to anyone below age. Meaning the banks verify the age before they issue one, which means credit cards are defacto proof of age.Beyond that it's just up to the owners of the cards to keep them out of reach of 10 year olds. But if a 10 year old is able to view tits using a credit card he just got from his parents wallet then there's more problems than that kid seeing tits going on.The UK has the digital ID government app rolling out this year too, so we'll have the option to only disclose information we select in the app. There also a neat feature of a confirmation handshake where the app confirms the information held without disclosing it.Basically>We need to know the person is over 18 before we let him watch this hardcore futa hentai porn>He is>You sure>Yep, I have the official government issued birth certificate and relevant documents given to him through his life, he is over 18.>Ok cool
>>732747450>>732750193>gonna willy wonka this shitUUUUUH BASED?!
>>732747374they can not require it from users who made account more than 17 years agocheck mate faggot
forced ID checks would be based if it autobanned brown people and troons
>parents unable to educate and do basic check-ups on the well-being of their children>now the internet has to turn completely shitHow about Discord just introduces some client side parental controls? Instead of shoving dildos up my colon?
>>732762862To be able to say no-no words without risking my entire steam account and all my games.
>>732750281Still don't get what the fuss was about. If a tranny says I should pay him 10 dollars for his shitty self-insert companion, what stops me from just not doing it? Now he's just selling his mods bit by bit on patreon instead. If anything, paid mods were a rock solid red flag for me to know from whom not to download.
