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You can make a store that's better than steam in every way, and it still wouldn't catch onSteam was the first, so nothing will ever replace it, just like with youtube, twitter, facebook etc.
>>736280812Like myspace and yahoo, right?
>>736280812>Facebook, Twitter pretty sure MySpace existed before them
>>736280812>You can make a store that's better than steam in every way, and it still wouldn't catch onso why didn't any other company try that?epic's valuation is more than twice valve's, so they're perfectly capable of creating a platform that's better than valve's.
>>736280812Ah cool, excited for Sega's new console?
>>736280648Sorry I only use GoG or pirate.
>>736280812>This user is underage.Before Facebook, there was MySpace. Before MySpace, there was Friendster. Before Friendster, there was SixDegrees.Being the first does not give you domain by default. You become the default by being the least shit for long enough to accrue enough mindless slaves to your cause. No other storefront has met this criteria nearly as long as Steam has.
>>736280912>GoGalright >pirate brown behavior
>>736280879SMOLL INDIE COMPANY PLEASE UNDERSTANDGOTTA FIRE 1000 EMPLOYEES TO KEEP STEAL A BRAINROT RUNNINGPLEASEWE RELEASED IN 2019 AND ADDED CARTS IN 2021, OUR LATEST UPDATE IS THE GROUNDBREAKING CHATS UPDATE
>>736280879>so they're perfectly capable of creating a platform that's better than valve's.They absolutely are. They just chose to do retarded shit instead.
steam is good. some day, gabe will die, and the company will go public for the epic IPO cashout.Then, it will be liquid shit.
>>736280957found the jew
>youtube, twitter, facebook All three of those replaced the first of theor kind to the market.
Steam allows you to refund shit without forcing you to jump through a million hoops just to be told "Actually no"That's literally it
>>736280648What video were you watching when you took this screenshot?
>>736280812GoG is doing alright
>valvegan desperately trying to edit the original
>>736280879>they're perfectly capable of creating a platform that's better than valve's.Not really. If they tried that, shareholders would rape them in court for wasting money on shit that benefits the customer instead of maximising shareholder returns. Even if they managed to make a competitor that's better than Steam in every way, they'd be legally obligated to enshittify it to make shareholders more money.Don't you just love judaism?
>>736280812Make a store without DRM and I'm there. I use GOG as much as possible.
>>736280812Nah, if steam started enshittifying people would start leaving. Lmao. It's a miracle the worst of their morality are the gamba mechanics that literally everybody in the world does.
>>736280812name one digital game store thats genuinely as good as steam
>>736281167I saw it on Reddit
>>736280812Your half right its just that you need to make a better store AND Valve needs to fuck up severely so you can take marketshare.Really once you have a good storefront then its an endurance game, a game really only Epic could of done, if they had actually made a storefront equivalent or better than Steam.Before Xbox gave up that's how the console market worked, since most consoles outside of a few exclusives are mostly the same the winning console was whatever company didn't get cocky from winning the previous generation and trip over their own dick
>>736280812While everyone rode the PC is Dead bandwagon, Gaben saw opportunity. They're just mad they didn't have the foresight.
>>736280648I wonder why centralized web storefronts even exist for games. You don't get that shit for movies, can't even download them at all to begin with.
>>736281308>browns portraying themselves as chadskek
>>736280812>You can make a store that's better than steam in every way,Can you?
>>736281139>youtubeWhat did Youtube replace?
>>736282909Theoretically, yes. In practice, no.
>>736280812>You can make a store that's better than steam in every way, and it still wouldn't catch onHow would you know? Nobody has ever tried it.>facebooklmao only boomers use that shit now.
>>736281151This is how it works on Xbox as well. Literally 2 clicks away. It's sony that needs you to call them in for a maybe and Nintendo straight up does not do it.
>>736280812fpbp, that's just the truth. doesn't mean steam sucksjust that the first mover advantage it has is impossible to dethrone
>>736282535because the normalfags decided they want to get fucked by streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu instead of actually owning their movies. The supply gives in to demand.Also because normalfags don't have storage space, they just have a "smart" TV that they don't know how to stick a hard drive into to store data, so streaming is essentially required for a majority of audiences. Whereas gamers have a computer as a prerequisite, thus ensuring they have harddrive space to store games.
>>736280812>You can make a store that's better than steam in every waySo why don't you?
>>736282909Can't be that hard, just copy what works and improve what doesn't
>>736284681NOOOO, FAIR COMPETITION DOESN'T WORK LIKE THIS. YOU CAN'T JUST EXPECT ME TO MAKE MY PRODUCT ACTUALLY GOOD. STEAM IS CHEATING SOMEHOW. YAARRRGHHH
>>736281308>dude I downloaded like 10 zips file I can show you the forum's screencaps of the tutorial in 720p I'm such a gamer. doante to the patreon btw
>>736280648>soijakKill yourself
>>736281265Does GoG have workshop support and community forums, voice chat, remote game streaming, and VR support? Or library sharing?The other platforms are genuinely lacking in features that make Steam great.
>>736280648haha i saw that on twitter too xD
>>736284917I don't use any of that, DRM-free games is literally all I care about. Simple is best.The majority of other people like those steam features though, which is why steam is da bess
>>736284837wojaks are 4chan-core, lurk more newfag
>>736284917>steamies are this mentally illNot beating the fanatical cult allegations.
>>736285074well, does it?
>>736284917No but GOG is good at support for older games, the original Resident Evil games dropped on GOG first, they had to convince capcom that people gave a shit about the old games.It's their niche and they're good at it.
>>736280812Valve makes no games and their store is console ports. PC gaming is up for taking. All you need is something like old blizzard to make a couple GOTY classics in a mature industry where marketing is more important than gameplay and then make them exclusive to their store. Easy task right? Actually downright impossible. HL2 is piece of shit garbage by today's standards. You ain't making a shit like hl2 and using it as a bait and switch to get people to use your shitty store anymore. That ship sailed. Steam monopoly is staying even if Microsoft eventually buys it. Mark my words.
>>736280812WHY THE FUCK EPIC DIDN'T DO JUST THAT THEN
Any game that uses Steam's lobby features is a Steam game.
>>736280648Steam is not perfect by any means, and does couple of shitty things, but is objectively 10000x better than any other online game store and that's a fact. I would love to see some PC online shop competitor, but they all fumble so hard.
>>736280951And how much investment you had in those social media sites? Oh yeah, nothing. You could just make another account elsewhere because they are literally free unlike your steam games. But I bet you think you are smart and smug
>>736281265GOG is the best place for old games, they literally have everything there even back from 90's. But for modern games it's 50/50, store has less features overall and their dedication to only allow DRM-free games automatically filtrates most of modern games.
>>736285565>He didn't drop a couple of grand at farmville
>>736281308>south american doesn't understand the point of the imageHow is steam shooting itself you actual lobotomite?
>>736284073>Nintendo straight up does not do it.so we're just lying
Honestly I expect steam to follow suit when gabe dies.
>>736285674They improved the regional pricing and now I don't get exclusively cheap deals
>>736280857Myspace was only big for a few years. Youtube has been going for 20+ years strong and no signs of anything stopping it.
>>736285612>you now remember those shitty facebook "mmo"si wish i forgot about this completely
>>736283976ebaumsworld
>>736285754Honestly, why would steam die? Valve pulled so many shit on everyone already. Tim is absolutely right about gamers. Their opinions don't matter and they'll use steam regardless who owns it.
>>736285868I remember ebaums world and that shit was nothing like Youtube. Ebaumsworld was more like a tamed version of efukt than it was Youtube.
>>736285674remember paid mods? yeah i bet you don't
>>736284917gog has forums and allows mods on there at least, but no to the other stuff
>>736285901I mean that I expect the new owner to run steam into the ground. People will still use it even if it turns to shit but I expect everything to go wrong.
>>736285056Wojak is. Soijaks aren't.
>>736280861Usenet is still around...as a website that sells ISPs
'jakker on the 'log
>>736285970If GabeN dies and steam staff don't have any preventative measures against doing stupid shit, then this is absolutely how Steam goes under
>>736281308I'm never trying to compile software again fuck.
>>736285970But everything did go wrong with steam under Valve already? How much more censorship and enshitification you need? /v/ was complaining about steam ui sucking, reviews, forums, basically everything except 1 thing not valve is responsible from and that is akamai download servers. We aren't even talking about unethical stuff like paid modding in an effort to steal 75% from modders, taking 30% from indie games while taking 20% or less from triple a slop etc.
>>736285994It's literally the other way around. W*jak originated from KC /int/ whereas Basedjak originated from our /int/
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>>736286182If you want decompiled ports of old game you'll have to not be dogshit at linux lmao loser
>>736280812>you can make a store that's better than steam in every way...so why hasn't anyone done it?
>>736286223>taking 30% from indie gamesAll the other things you bring up hold weight, but this argument right here is the stupid most retarded shit. Literally every media type and publisher, TV, movies, games, music, books, takes a 30% cut. This is industry standard shit, but somehow Timmy got it into every retard's head that taking a 30% cut is unfair now
>>736280648One thing to fix: Nintendo is shooting itself in the head, but missing every time. This is to portray the fact that no matter how much they mistreat their ̶s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶s̶ fans, they're still deified.
>>736280812America really is the only country that did fuckall worth doing for humanity, and Japan rode their tailcoats as DLC. Everyone else kinda just fucking consumes what has already been established 30 years ago with 0 innovation.
