>Steam has a monopoly>anyone could do what they d- AAAAAACCCKKIf even Amazon can't do it now what?
>muh niggazillion dollar greed company couldn't do it, nobody CAN>why yes i always turn a blind eye at GOGs existance(you)
>the literal no refunds memefucking kek
>>737389904other companies scam you that means the company that doesn't needs to fucking die
>refundsfor what? nigga you literally bought nothing, a bunch of 0s and 1s that are somehow interpreted as some slop game by your digital abacus
Sorry goy. No refunds.
>>737389904Maybe they should have asked a few random steam users why they liked steam instead of pouring millions of dollars into the toilet.
>a subscription-only model focused on games included with Prime and the paid Luna Premium tierfucking lmao, i love hearing about new things i am 100% going to ignore
>>737390263It also doesn't help that they spent over 15 years doing that and most people didn't realize it.A good place to start is making it known that you are doing something.
Dont worry OP, when the Rothschilds successfully sue Gaben you'll lose all those games too!
>>737389904Steam is not a game streaming platform, retard.
>>737389904skill issue
>>737391619So it should be easy right...oh wait.
>>737390129I'm going to come seize your house. Why would you care, it's just an basic arrangement of atoms and electrons made to behave like a living space.
>>737390129I'm gonna take your car then, why should you care? You didn't make it. The manufacturer did. So they have the right to take it back whenever they want.
>>737389904isn't that one of those "you vill rent a pc in the cloud" bullshit platforms
>>737391619How could this possibly be true when its a storefront full of games and it constantly has sales events? If anything Epic Launcher is the one for third worlders since it desperately tries to give shit away for free constantly and its biggest draw is also free (Fortnite)
>>737390015>GOGLiterally a money burning piece of shit. CD Projekt even lost faith in it and just tossed it over to some dude. THAT'S the competition that Steamies cite as the reason Steam isn't a monopoly?https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
>>737390263The line went up, this is a success.
>>737392104tfw governments can do this if they want to
>>737390263>Ask a few random steam usersKEK do you people even listen to yourselves. Here's your answers>All my games are already there>I think the fat yacht billionaire is my friend>I'm lonely and use it as social media
>>737392104His house is the (((bank's))) property, you cannot seize it.
>>737389904they're going all in on AI and pulling out of other ventures
>>737392624>let's acquire things and ruin them insteadThis is also Steam's future, it will get acquired and turned into SAAS garbage whether you like it or not.
>>737392624Well I cant play TF2 and Deadlock on GOG
>>737392489>some dudeit literally says in the hyperlink you posted that it's been acquired by one of the founders of GOG and CDProjekt Red. the dude who founded it took a majority stake from CDPR. are you retarded
>>737392624sounds better than listening to a bunch of startup fags, VCs and amazon execs
>>737392624>Oh yeah and steam is still the best storefront>And they still have the best track record on consumer rights compared to their competition>And they aren't a publicly traded company so shareholders aren't going to flush my stuff down the toilet to make line go up
a few days after Stop Killing Gamesseems like a power moveget mogged, ross
>>737392624Fat yacht billionaire is my god
>>737390263>because they were already using TwitchHow retarded can you be? It's netflix but for game playthroughs. Gaymors are playing games not watching them
>>737390263This is the demonstration that Amazon cannot create anything, Amazon is literally homosexual. Even look at their initial strategy, buyouts, absolutely sterile company.>we needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do soNot by chance, they cannot build period.
>>737392624Here's why I buy games on Steam at times instead of pirating them>workshop>no matter what controller I use, as long as it is connected to my PC, it just fucking works without any issuesOther launchers could try and copy that. They won't.
>>737392912Fat Santa said piracy is a service issue, after all
>>737392912i tried epic for a little bit and it gave me pop-up ads for chinese gacha slop in the bottom right of my screen even when I specifically turned it off in the settings, and it would do it when it was minimized to tray. Made it feel like spyware even tho the actual storefront was fine
>>737392489Well there is also Epic Games and Microsoft with PC game stores, to give two other examples of well funded competitors. Of course, its not Steam's vault their competitors suck. Amazon, Epic, and MS obviously have the resources to copy the features that have made Steam so appealing, but they actively refuse to do so. Honestly, its rather baffling; I am having a hard time thinking of any other business that maintains a dominate market share mostly because its would be competitors just refuse to even try.
>>737390526Whats that amy animation from?
>>737389904Can people get refunds for all the Nintendo games that they bought digitally for their Wii U?Same thing
>>737392450Because Epic Store has ties with China, that's why.Also I heard that Roblox has more users than Steam, so they keep trying to copy Steam but Steam has already been beaten.
>>737389904I've never heard of luna
>>737393097Yeah, this is what it ultimately boils down to. They offer convenience that piracy doesn't, or at the very least, could involve a lot of pain in the ass depending on the game. As long as I don't care about multiplayer, other platforms offer me fuckall. GOG is nice and all with their offline installer gimmick but it doesn't really give me an incentive to spend money there. If I were a turbo normalfag who is deathly afraid of piracy, I guess it would be something, at the very least.
>>737389904>Amazon LunaNever heard of it and I have Amazon Prime. Next time try advertising your platform.
>>737393171It's too hard for Scrum-masters to copy Steam's features.
>>737393415Not surprising, considering that no one gives a flying fuck about cloud gaming garbage.
>>737393375Users doesn't really matter. Almost all of Roblox users are third world children that don't even have a penny to their name. Even showing ads to them won't make much money.
>>737392729>i spend all my time around russians, bots, and tranniesWhat the fuck dude
>>737390263maybe they're freeing up hardware for AI world models
>>737393171people clown on EGS but the microsoft store is on a whole different level of uselesslooks like it belongs on a phone and a shitload of stuff on there is completely incompatible with mods
>>737389904There are people on this planet that bought games on amazon luna ?
>>737393209So do Steam users have money to spend or don't they, retard? Pick a side
>>737392624That's still useful information: it tells you that you need to make a store that's dramatically better because people already have an extremely entrenched motivation to stay on Steam. And that's a very tall order because Steam has been continually refined and improved for decades plus Valve isn't publicly traded so they can just make good products without shareholders chimping out.Funny you mention social media though because Steam has fairly dogshit text chat and room / group chat functionality; if you wanted to replace Steam trying to beat them there would probably be your best bet e.g. most Steam users use Discord rather than Steam for chatting with each other so if you can get a store that has chat features as good as or better than Discord (or you bought Discord and integrated it into your store) that would be the first step needed. But you'd have to do that along with doing everything else Steam does, and better than Steam does.
>>737389904because they didn't try to be like steam, they clearly were more interested in the PC-streaming business and that failed
>>737393171>Amazon, Epic, and MS obviously have the resources to copy the features that have made Steam so appealing, but they actively refuse to do so.Because those features wouldn't maximize short-term gain for the shareholders. Why don't you care about the shareholders are you an anti-semite or something?
>>737392832>Gaymors are playing games not watching themthat's really not true anymore
>>737389904>muh steamluna is attempt # I don't even know at this point at doing the you will not own your own pc thing tho. If they are imitating anything it's Stadia
>>737393171>I am having a hard time thinking of any other business that maintains a dominate market share mostly because its would be competitors just refuse to even try.I guess Nintendo with portable consoles? I hate to say "Nintendo isn't being a monopoly just because they're the only one making portable consoles" but I guess that would be accurate here lol.
>>737391619I hope Pakistan nukes your country, Rajesh
>>737390263>Yeah we thought that the fucking trogs that we sell our slop too would just see the brand and buy our bullshit, but it turns out you retards aren't quite programmed hard enough yet. We'll come back to it.Corpos are fucking vile.
>>737393853That's more so that Nintendo never stopped using exclusives to sell you their shitbox. MS and Sony stopped and are now baffled that no one wants their piece of shit except for FIFA heads, but the answer was obvious.
>>737390263>we tried everything
>>737389904This is funny but not surprising. You've been warned. I'm just here for the laughs.
>>737394037I mean portable consoles specifically. The only portable consoles on the market right now are the Switch and the Switch 2. Nobody is trying to make another one. I'm specifically ignoring every single other monopolizing thing they're doing for this because if the only argument was "Nintendo are the only ones making portable consoles so they're a monopoly." that would be dumb.
How am I the only person who noticed OP replaced Bharat Nation with Rouge?
>>737392104Is the joke the government can do this at any time it wants just like digital storefronts can with your purchases?
>>737392489GOG can't even provide first world download speeds.
>>737394037Sony and MS also stopped trying to sell 3rd party games at all. Sony decided its name will be enough to sell consoles and keep fans and decided games just aren't necessary. MS decided to push subscription services. It's not an exclusives things. It's a having nothing to offer that makes use of your product thing.
>>737389904Monopoly means other companies literally can't do it cause the company holding the monopoly is stopping them from establishing their company (legal loopholes, buyouts) just because Valve is competing with retards that can't organize themselves doesn't suddenly make Valve a monopoly
>>737389904>make a zogslop service based on streaming >rather than a good recognizable platform with feature >flop catastrophically despite backing from biggest tech companyBut muh Steam.
>>737392624i hope gaben takes me in as a refugee on his yacht in the coming collapse
>>737389904Steam does have a monopoly. Nobody uses Epic or GOG. Windows has one too but people will say Linux is a valid alternative for some reason when it has a fraction of the userbase.
>>737394842>the apocalypse will make Gaben turn to piracy and raid people in his yatch
>>737390263their mistake was thinking people who play games are on twitch when in reality most of the userbase is children looking for parasocial friendships
>>737394842I think its hilarious that this symbol is slowly and actually starting to become a real symbol a freedom that permeates real life the next 5 years are going to be interesting.
>>737390263>make vastly shittier service>expect people to abandoned their stash spot for another one that smells and has nothing in itGee, these people dont seem very smart.
>>737392624If it's that obvious and if everyone is as smart as you, why did they make such a servie that was bound to fail, genius?
>>737395317Because we're not on speed and paid 10 millions with bonus regardless of result and in a feminized toxic positivity environment. It's not a matter of intelligence, I would have done the exact same mistakes if I was there surrounded by these mongs. Look it doesn't even matter for Amazon, it doesn't matter if their engine is usury.
>>737389904Stop killing games
>>737394110Sony apparently has a handheld in the works for the next gen, hopefully it does not suck. That said, the situation with the Switch is a bit different than Steam; as you said, nobody else even makes portable consoles at the moment. With Steam, other PC game stores do exist, and several are part of big, well off companies, yet they refuse to even try to match Steam's popular features. It would be like if Sony & MS released handhelds that had no analog sticks, or no ability to dock to a tv, and then complained about Nintendo dominating the market.
>>737389904I already have a library on Steam, so I'm interested in it doing well in the future. Moving somewhere else would be silly.GOG had the right idea when it allowed to you get a free copy of some games you already own on Steam, but they didn't have nearly enough money for that. Timmy just created a huge army of freeloaders who were condidioned to not spend money on EGS.
>>737392624this. As a store its really not much better than Epic. The prices aren't cheaper.
>>737395842Start killing games
>>737389904Gabe = badsteam = monopolyeveryone else = goodit's that simpleI'll gladly give my money to amazon as long as we can keep fighting evil which is GabeGabe = bad, Steam = monopoly, everything else = good. These are just facts of life.
Amazon had a game store? What the fuck? Since when?
>>737392624>yacht>billionaire>not fatBezos you let us down.
>>737392489>Literally a money burning piece of shit. CD Projekt even lost faith in it and just tossed it over to some dudei don't think they lost faith but a) they probably lacked the manpower and b) they needed money because of the cyberpunk failure and a bit of cash injection for their upcoming woke disaster witcher 4GOG uploads fixed games (with repository for you to choose version (Steam has one too but needs a guide to be accessed)). their Manhunt release probably works without fixes and it is not the pirated version take-two uploaded onto Steamso yeait has its place and it's good it exists even though i'd prefer Steam was 100% of the market with a little bit more attention to detail and less recent woke staff
It's unreasonable to expect refunds because you still own a license to the games. The fact that you don't have a way to access them is not Amazon's problem, legally speaking.
>>737390263even this type of statement is so retarded that he obviously doesnt believe anything that he wrote but at least he got a nice pay check
>>737397059this is precisely why steam is winning. good product, good service == customer loyalty
>737389904>anyone could do what they doCorrect.>If even Amazon don't wanna do it now what?Ftfy.Also now what what.What kind of answer are you expecting?You either pay Amazon or you don't, Retard.
>>737389904>steam: does nothing>amazon: tries and fails>HOW COULD STEAM DO THIS?
>>737397059This is why PC gamers shouldn't have tolerated the concept of a storefront with DRM built into it. You're not buying games, you're paying full price to rent games that these corporations can take back at any time.
>>737397376>that butchery of basic english
>>737390015GOG is actually currently eating shit because their entire business model is a lie and their customer base is waking up to the fact that drm free games are still licensed and sitting on a time bomb of free lawsuits is actually no bueno.
I pirate games and spend in gachas.
>>737389904Amazon Luna's library is absolutely fucking pathetic. For one of the biggest businesses in existence, it's the saddest shit you'll ever see. A couple of relatively recent big games, a handful of older big games everyone and their dog already owns thanks to bundles and keys being $3-4 for the past 5+ years, and the rest is mostly indieslop. Not the good kind of indie, but the "this looks like it was ported from Android" kind.
If Steam were to ever go down or they go public and shareholders ruin them I'd feel justified in downloading pirated versions of my library
>>737392624Oof, you really rattled those steamtroons
>>737398315That's happening the millisecond Gayben kicks the bucket from cholesterol
>>737394114i'm severely disappointed no one else has noticed it when its the very first thing i noticed
>>737389904>streamingSo this sounds like pure cancer and you're a spasmic Valvecultist bringing it up out of nowhere to defend the billion dollar company that wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire from imaginary voices in your head. Proceed to kill yourself
>>737390263I had no idea they made their own store, when the fuck was that?Luna is delusional garbage from the same type of ranjeets that thought Stadia would be a hit. The cloud pc rental thing is never going to take off voluntarily which is why now all of the tech/AI slop companies are colluding to make DIY not attainable for consumers
never bought anything but claimed hundreds of games from primeonly ever played deep sky derelicts there, does that mean I'm gonna lose access to it?
>>737389904>everyone who tries to copy steam is retarded, greedy, and fails because of this >this is somehow steam's fault
>>737389904Piracy is still the best option on PC. Steam is still a monopoly. People who worship Gaben are cringe
>>737402958How is Steam a monopoly when they can't force devs to use it and many of their games i can get on EGS?
>>737389904Amazon is not a monopoly, they have Alibaba as a huge competitor in the Asian and sometimes western market.Steam on the other hand has no one else as its true competitor specially in Asia. GOG? Asian market hasn't ever heard of it. Asia being mostly China in this regard.
>>737390263>WE TRIED EVERYTHINGBitch I don't see "make an actual better competing product" anywhere in that list of shit you triedIt's all gimmicks and corpo market control tactics
>>737398008They also remove LAN from games that had them so you have to use their GoG Galaxy Launcher for multiplayer. They also had a live service plan with mtx for a multiplayer mode of Cyberpunk (like GTA Online) but cancelled those plans due to their rough lunch and lawsuit. So they support Windows monopoly, don't care about modding, and are still for the multiplayer side of games having DRM and microtrasations. They also removed a Tibet games after threats from Chinese and said it was due to "concern from gamers."
I will remain on physical until the day I die or all my systems break and I can't afford to buy a new one or until the day we all lose electricity.
>>737402958And how will that help things?
>>737403517Help?
It's kinda funny how all Steam monopoly accusations come down to>stop keeping your users happy, how are we supposed to compete against that?
>>737392489>THAT'S the competition that Steamies cite as the reason Steam isn't a monopoly?No, it's not monopoly because that is a thing you first have to prove that it is. That requires two elements. First that it has monopoly power(enough influence to fix price and exclude competitors) and second that it must maintain that power through anti-competitive or exclusionary acts.What have you got?
>>737390263Line go up
>>737389904The SaaS mind-virus will prevent anyone from ever competing with steam.
>however, if you linked the games to your EA, ubisoft or gog accounts, you still own them and can download and play themwhat does that mean ? Can I transfer the 300 free luna games I claimed on my mother's amazon prime account to my gog library or it's just about the free game they offered for gog only ?
>Buy game>Money stolenThis is why cloud gaming is gay. If you're going to do that, pay for a monthly subscription with the knowledge that eventually you won't be able to access the catalogue of games when the service dies. Actually spending one time purchases on "cloud games" is the most retarded thing I've ever heard.
>>737393125wtf ? is this wemod or a "serious" storefront made by a billions dollars corporation ?
>>737389904Amazon didn't compete because they're greedy kikeniggers so the service inevitably ended up shit. Not because it's impossible to, you retarded troglodyte.
>>737390263>because we owned twichviewer on twitch doesn't play games, they "watch" streamer play games, but in reality it's just for parasocial bullshit cause they have no friend
>>737392624Amazon killed my childhood by killing reflexive alongside adobe killing flash games and EA killing popcap, they deserve to burn. Is gamehouse is still a thing nowadays?
>>737390263>we never validated our core assumptions before investing heavilyAnd the guy responsible for this, Ethan Evans, is now retired and offering mentoring and coaching to raise the next generation of upward failing suits.
>>737390263THEY MADE THE SAME ORIGIN MISTAKE... Bruh, these multibillion companies keep making the same mistakes and act like steam is doing black magic. Fuck, how hard is to hire a consultant to tell you the basic?
As long as they dont touch L4D2, im goodDont give a fuck about anything else
Unironically what would get you to move to another game store? If not move entirely away from steam, at least enough to buy games from both steam and this theoretical new store?
>>737392215Technically the ones and zeroes on my computer that represent a game were physically instantiated by my computer, not the devs.
>>737389904Why would anyone buy games from an amazon digitl storefront when they're untrustworthy and will do exactly what they just did?Same reason no one buys shit on a google digital storefront, you'd have to be stupid as hell.
>>737406165The consultants tell them the same things because if they actually told them to do what Steam did they wouldn’t have jobs.
>>737389904explain why something needs to be done
American companies are literally incapable of competing with other companies that aren't already operating under the 'enshittify for maximum profits' strategy. I don't even know how you unfuck this scenario and get these companies to stop ass raping their customers and instead make a genuinely good product/service.
>>737406550A catalogue of +18 games that i can't get pirated uncensored i guess
>>737406851You would have to stop the corporate suits from not making massive amounts of money. All these what we see as stupid destructive business, works out great for them. They all retire with millions of dollars to do whatever they want with.
>>737390263>a store, a social network, a library, a trophy case, No steam just hasn't screwed us yet, everyone knows that google and amazon WILL eventually screw you over it's not even a question, they're untrustworthy by default. Buying anything digital from scamazon and google is asking to have your money disappear into the ether in a few years.Steam has stood the test of time.
>>737389904Amazon can't compete because it has to please shareholders and investors first instead of the videogame buyer.
>>737390263whining about the social shit on steam is such a cope, it's mostly irrelevant at this point. How many people use the forums or the built in chat on there these days?the bigger selling point is the workshop
>>737407028Amazon can't compete because it has nothing but jeets, AI, and completely disconnected boomers. So many of these media services literally think they can just buttfuck the customer as hard as possible and give zero value in return. Microsoft learned that the hard way with Xbox. They just gave up trying to compete and bought studios and they still can't comprehend why that didn't work. What pisses me off the most is the way they word it as if the customer is at fault for not buying the slop
>>737406768it quite retard. Steam has almost 20 years in the market, they basically built the market and we have people with 900+ games on library but for some reason people think they can just barge in without making a study.
>>737389904Luna was a Stadia knock-off. And Stadia was a shit idea to start with.
>>737406550If it were a store that focused on anime tiddies then I'd be down to help them grow. If not then no fucks given.
>>737398069This but mmos instead
>>737406550DRM to be either nonexistent or as relaxed as steam'sexclusive games i want to playmeaningful benefits over pirated copies, e.g. cloud saves, public achievements and leaderboardsstable client that isn't a resource hog
Amazon will just wait until Gaben dies, then they'll buy off Steam and will turn it into shit before the 6 month mark.Gaben dying would see Microshit, Tencent, Amazon, Saudis, etc. buy off Steam from Valve's remaining faceless men and women in suits.
>>737405028this, consolechildren watch games, steam users play them.>>737398464good example of a twitch "user"
>>737392489Other companies being dogshit =/= steam being monopoly it just means that their competition is dogshit and needs to actually be better. Way different from oil barrons closing off the market to have a trust that controls large parts of the market.
>>737389904>league of legends>genshin impact>fortnite>world of warcraft Games that are flops because they aren't on Steam, which is a monopoly.
>>737397025>GOG uploads fixed games (with repository for you to choose versionWhy lie about something so easily checked?
>>737408843ok. check it retard
>>737408843???? Why are you being retard???
>>737409260Okay.
>>737408014didn't microshart already try it a few years ago only to get told to fuck off?they're fucking vultures, they will definitely swoop in the moment he dies/retires
>>737409450okay what
>>737409662It only shows the 5 most recent patches. You don't get to freely pick your version.How about you extol the actual virtues of GOG, like their far superior refund policy?
>>737390263People are giving him shit but I respect that he owned up to the mistake and came out of it with some lucid thought. I just wonder why the fuck it's so difficult for companies to evaluate the situation before they go in. Most won't even admit they fucked up AFTER.
>>737390263I didn't even know this store existed?
>>737389904Amazon prime gaming should just have partnered with valve and give out steam keys instead of games for their own launcher.
>>737409750skill issue. i don't own that shit gamei honestly didn't know what you meant. if you doubted the fixed part or that they offer a repository >manhunt is not available on gogi didn't know
>>737393253Random YouTube channel who thinks he can make up stuff about real franchises.
>>737389904So they're doing this out of fear for stop killing games or something?
Thanks for the laughs buddy.
Does this effect the games on the amazon launcher? I got some free shit there
>>737390263pretty accurate why didnt the figure out this stuff before trying
>>737389904>streamingha, they'll never fucking learnfucking morons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.comGOG is kosher and owned by woke CDProjekt Red until December recently, that's why they worked with Amazon on this.Glad I've never given them money, funding all their woke initiatives. Hope Witcher 4 flops.
>>737407145Nobody uses the chat much anymore, but tons of people use the join/invite feature from the friends list.
>>737409757>People are giving him shit but I respect that he owned up to the mistake and came out of it with some lucid thought.same, I'm too used to corporate fuckers failing and then blaming everything else except themselves or their idea that failed, he does this, he admits they were arrogant and basically half-assed everything thinking the power of the name "amazon" would carry them, but didn't gain traction because there was no reason for people to leave a better service that they were already using
>>737390263>we tried *list of things i've never heard of in 15 years*how can they be this incompetent
>MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ok, make a good storefront. Really, just make a better product, nobody is stopping you.>NOOOOOOOOO WE CAN'T GIVE THE CONSUMERS WHAT THEY WANT THT'S ANTISEMITICThen stop complaining.
>>737389904Who the fuck uses Amazon for gaming?
>>737389904>>737390263first time I've even heard of this.
>>737389904Amazon could do it, but instead they tried to enshittify a service that nobody was even using yet.
>>737414194Same lol
>>737409757Because it is the end of things. Someone needs to take the flack as the fall guy but in this case they throw in the towel.
>>737408014>buy steamwith what money? steam has billions, what are they going to offer them, trillions? whoever runs the company after gabe is going to become an instant billionaire and won't have any need for their money. I seriously don't get this narrative that steam is going to go public or be purchased post-gabe when there's zero incentive for them to do so. what's the thought process, that the successor would say "hmm I want to take a good company and make it shit and also I want to stop making money for bare minimum effort"?
>>737390263Probably the most honest and sincere words I have ever read of a corporate suit.The truth is that Amazon is a company entirely incapable of innovation. The only thing they have ever done that was successful (besides Amazon itself) was AWS. Their investments into videogames are nothing but money down the toilet. Not a single one of their studios ever made anything significantly good. Their best success was fucking New World.To be honest though, I can't think of anything that anyone could possibly do to break Steam's monopoly. If I really, really, really wanted to do so, I'd just order my dev team to make an almost 1:1 copy of it and then...not release it. Just sit on it and wait, while internally improving it. Wait for Steam to do something dumb that tanks their consumer trust, probably after Gaben inevitably dies. And when they are at their weakest, announce your stuff and almost immediately launch it. Get your foot inside the door while people are willing to swap away from Steam.
>>737415420Well, that has happened before in the past so it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. Retards will throw away millions long term for a quick few thousand.
>>737390263>They held countless meetings with people in suits to figure out how to compete with Steam>They failed to understand features like Family Sharing, mod support, controller compatibility, cloud save synchronization, and a polished storefront are some of the features that attracted and retained customers>Instead, they chose to spend enormous amounts of money trying to gain visibility, while ignoring Steam’s actual strengthsActually amazing.
>>737390263literally just find a few guys who actually play video games, take their opinions seriously and you can pocket the several million dollars and make a better platform than steam all in one gofucking retards
What is even the point of these for anyone other than Pourfag normies who cant afford a PC.Like you can do the same exact shit for free by hosting games on your own PC.
>>737413585Ugh, like yikes, you don't get it.Not sodomizing your costumers raw at any chance is an unfair competition practice and antisemitic. How are we supposed to rape our clients 'til the last cent if they have such alternative?
>>737403285That was the guy's entire point to what he was saying there, and why he pointed out they did basically everything except that.Try reading more than a single sentence. It's not hard. It might even be fun and give you more to shitpost about.
>>737415945What the fuck is a Pourfag?A flamboyant bartender who dresses his drinks up in gimp leather?
>>737415420Depends on who comes after Gaben really. We already had an example of this happening with Notch and Minecraft, maybe whoever comes next will simply not want to bother with Steam and sell it off in exchange for unlimited cash for 20 lifetimes.
>>737394968Users refusing to use alternative services doesn't make it a monopoly.
>>737416173Notch was making the smart move though, since there were no guarantees about how long minecraft was gonna stay hot. Ultimately it's just a single game, after all. I don't think anyone expected that shit to keep going full-ass as long as it has.Steam is something that's not at risk of going "out of fashion/FOTM" though. Unless someone actually makes a better service, which it seems like nobody can be fucked to bother doing, it'll keep printing money for as long as PC gaming is a thing. Whoever it is can just appoint a proxy and collect fuck-you money every month for their entire life while doing nothing but laughing, drinking, and watching hookers fuck other hookers who just got done fucking other hookers.
Steam just won by just being one of the first ones, right now if Steam starts to fuck up and a new and really better shop appears, I'm still gonna support Steam because I don't want my entire library gone.
>>737416754This. People tend to forget that oftentimes being first is more important than being perfect.
>>737389904>b-but I tought replacing pychical media is the future?!>so is you owning nothing goy hahahaha
>>737389904>just use another platform >just one more login bro>you can trust these models that haven't yet stood the test of time>amazon of all things
>>737416754Steam won by making Counter Strike (the most popular online game of its era) Steam exclusive. That's how they got users locked into their ecosystem
>>737390263>gamers already had the solution to their problems, and they weren't going to switch just because a new one was availableWhat the fuck do they teach MBAs these days? This is like business 101.
>>737418409If you make it people will buy it was the general course of though for a long time, it still sticks with older people to this day.
>>737418517Yeah the problem was that even when that saying was coined the people making these products were making them to solve real problems that they or their clients were having. Some people took it way too literally as if it meant you could just make anything without doing any market research and here we are.
>>737415420You severely underestimate people in power shortsights.It happened countless of times.>mmmh, my company makes 10 millions per year>*another company appears offering you instan 20 millions instantly*>HOLY SHIT DEAL
