Reminder that if Steam didn't exist, Games For Windows Live would have become gold standard for PC gaming. That means all of Xbox's past and current faggotry would have been the norm for PC.Remember to say>thank you gaben for saving pc gaming from microsoft
Getting real tired of all the anti-India spam on 4chan.
what is that stuff?
>>735084609I remember the Microsoft Loot boxes and Keys microtransaction scamAnd that time they sell the end of their biggest hit (Half Life 2) as a DLC, but then the real, real ending was a dlc that never came out (episode 3), so no ending...
>>735084682>anti India It's morally correct to hate jeetfilled shitholes like Microslop. Valve is the white mans choice.
>>735084910>whole extra game>that does not require the base game to play it>calls it dlc
>>735084609You know what would have really saved pc gaming? Companies not bending over backwards to fuck pirates, whom never once were going to be effected by their efforts to try and stop them, and only resulted in the honest customer getting raped in the shitter.
>>735084609And a reminder that most of the good games on Steam are DRM FREE if you just launch the game from the .exe.
>>735084609thank you gaben for saving pc gaming from microsoft
>>735084609I would rather gfwl be the standard because they make games
>>735084609Wow, I love Valve now.
>>735084609>hunger provoking image
>>735085671>xbox>gameslmao whut
>>735085407PC gaming hasn't not been saved. Billions of ppl play on PC.you're trying to broaden the argument to fit your narrative but if you're going to do that you can't just arbitrarily stop where it helps you the most. broaden it the whole way and see that the entire world functions the way it does. hoping for a different PC gaming culture is, at this point, wanting the entire framework of the world to be different.im telling you to start hating capitalism btw.
>>735084609I recognize that vaginal blood frosting
I'd rather have physical discs. Burn in hell Gabe.
>>735086059there's a physical limit to how much data can be stored on a disc and you're installing the game to your machine anyway. nowadays it's faster to download the data online than it is to read it off of a disc. unless you want game companies to sell you USB drives with the game on it. console discs literally just let you download the game online these days and then act as a verification key.
>>735084846Cookie with pink coloured icing.
>>735086186barely anyone even has a blue ray drive on PC so much that MSFlight Sim printed the game on a ton of DVDs. Valve killed the attempt at keeping up with or advancing physical tech.
I love those fucking frosted shortbread cookies, I can never get them to come out as good as the bakeries do, but fuck me are they good.
>>735086186>SSD read speeds are 7-10 GB/sWhere the fuck are you living with such download speeds, and why are you lying
For me this is the ideal big pink cookie. First encountered them when I was a wee lad at one of those drive thru espresso stands that were everywhere in the 90's. My older sister got an iced mocha and I'd get one of these. Lofthouse is pretty good too but I prefer the cookie:icing ratio on this one.
>>735084609>Games For Windows LiveGod I still remember launching games from steam and needing to login to this shit. Thank god it died.
>>735085407honest customers dont notice denuvo as proven by RE9this is just a false narrative by piratesonly people fucked over are the pirates
>>735086971NTA but>sequential read speedsliterally a useless marketing metric
I miss playing RE5 online with randos. Probably the only GFWL game I remember playing with other people. I wonder how far off the RE5 remake is.
>>735085407As much as OP is sad bait, you're in the right. Pirates arent lost sales. They literally didnt want to pay X to play (you)r game. Even if you made pirating impossible they wouldnt buy it, since (obviously) they found the price too high despite the interest.However its a compelling tale to shareholders: "if even x fraction of pirated bought the game line would go up even harder!". For some weird reason they entirely miss the fact that the most succesful games retailer (steam) makes its entire bank on the fact that second-hand DRM sucks so you buy (cheap) "premium" on Steam just to avoid shitty DRM schemes, and thus Steam is the king because all based retards refuse to look beyond the graph go up
>>735084609Thank you for reminding me that shit existed and flopped>ALWAYS online, even for fully single player games>gfwl dies? so does your game even if its single player>needed a account for everything>borderline unplayable multiplayer that straight up killed multiplayer for some games (dawn of war, GTA4)>Z E R O support, anything wrong with your game or account? Tough shit
>>735087468And the majority of people on /v/ were in diapers when GFWL was menacing PC releases.
>>735084846Pink cookie they serve in Valve's cafeteria. Some obsesive faggots and enthusiastic gamers went all in on their obsession with valve that they started documenting what the employees eat at the mess room
I will say one thing for GFWLNot having to add people to your friends list to message them made invading in dark souls way more fun
>>735084609whenever I see this cookie I have flashbacks to TYLER MCNIGGER beating his wife
>>735088004On one hand, it really was autistic Valve fans digging into it, but on the other it was Valve themselves who made it a bit. They all gushed about it as a joke during an interview.https://youtu.be/aEi3U77b6yE?si=OSOuV1n3fMIx7phZ
>>735085925There is a major difference between what pc gaming is now, compared to what it was before the drm holocaust of the mid/late 2000s. Pc gaming absolutely is worst now, because its a shadow of what it once was. You say to look at the entire picture, yet you only focus on current sales. PC exclusive genres were either wiped out or bastardized into the horrible service game shit we have now, and "pc gaming" beyond that, now means "i want to play console games on a computer". The identity of the platform and why it was good, is gone, but the newcomer steamies of the 2010s think they are a part of the master race, yet they never gave a damn until things got decayed down to their level.
>>735086507>Valve killed the attempt at keeping up with or advancing physical tech.by offering a superior option. physical in this day and age is retarded, only third worlders want discs because they don't have the connection to download a 7gb game.
What does the pink taste like? Peanut butter?
>>735087169Honest customers were once given infinite installations and the ability to host their own servers.
>>735090360probably a buttercream frosting, that's the most common variant down here.
>>735090360It tastes like pink.
>>735086059>muh physicalGabe didn't do anything. Corpos already were busy raping physical copies with malware tier protection and licences demanding people to never share or resell their games. Not just that, they were also willing to do shit like LIMITED INSTALLS. Are you clueless, or innocent?
>>735085925>Billions of ppl play on PC.11-12m*
>>735084609you are the same as nintodlers, if valve cared their platform would be full of trash. most of the games are shitty cash grabs and there is alot of corruption like paid/bot reviews.stop sucking gabes cock faggot
>>735090348You will own nothing and you will be happy
>>735084609I like that proton is also helping to break the windows monopoly too. And that shit they have in the Steam Frame looks like it can help break the x86 monopoly too.Valve are doing lots of cool things. Considering how incompetent other companies have been with their launchers (origin, windows store, epic, etc.) they seem very much above replacement level
>>735090654If Valve and Steam never became a thing, you woule UNIRONICALLY own nothing. All the gaming action would only be happening on consoles while PC would only get pity crumbs and as a final attempt at stopping le evil pirates you'd only be allowed to play games through an online service demanding you to provide your full name and ID. I genuinely assume you're just a console toddler who doesn't know how bad the DRM's on physical copies could get, while Steam DRM is extremely light and forgiving
>>735090905lmao keep sucking gabes cock faggot
>>735091016Thank you for admitting your defeat.
>>735085671Someone who has never used GFWL detected.
>>735087468>ALWAYS online, even for fully single player games>gfwl dies? so does your game even if its single playerMongoloid.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVRWweWbp0>needed a account for everythingThis is true as much as it is true that you need to have an account to use Windows.
>>735086507Retarded prices and low speeds killed physical media. Noise too. Fucking hell the PS3 I had was noisy as fuck when it was reading a BD.
>>735086186>you're installing the game to your machine anywayJust like it always was on PC?
>>735085925You sound like a faggot
>>735085407>whom never once were going to be effected by their efforts to try and stop themI dunno anon denuvo has caused a fuckton of seethe on here
>>735090654You don't own console games either unless you can run them entirely independently of any licencing checks or verification, and even fully on disk games still belong to the publisher legally.The only real way to own most modern games is having your own cracked copy of the files, anything else is just a corporation letting you rent it.
>>735092404people getting mad at a performance hog on their legitimate copies doesn't translate to pirates seething over waiting a couple weeksif anything that's yet another point against it
>>735092157>t. can't handle facts
>>735084609all the anti valve shilling is just retards being contrarian for (you)s in an anonymous website. its deranged autism, probably just for screen shots they can post in their contrarian buddies discord or twitter.
>>735092404>living in the second world and pirating a lot of games>denuvo shows up>can't pirate games>can't convince first worlders I talk to online that the game is good and worth purchasing because I can't play it>barely bothering to buy a game that has Denuvo (I don't think I have any in my Steam library) when I do have the money to spare because I never got to play it to see if it's worth buying so I relegate it to the bottom of the priority list>developers neglect to remove Denuvo after it stops having any usefulness (the first few weeks after releasing a game)I can't really say I'm seething because the amount of vidya covered by it is pretty low, but thankfully people didn't pick it up en masse considering how it's there pretty much just to appease the executives
