https://x.com/JezCorden/status/2058574715497660597Valvebros...I don't feel so good....
>>739510938oh no, I won't be able to play microsoft games like.... uhhhhhh..
Oh no... no more uh... halo?And no more...forza...............WHO.CARES?
>>739510938Good. Fuck PC vegans
>>739510938He didn't say that lmao
>>739510938The one game I bought from the microsoft store doesn't open and crashes my pc whenever I try. Im not buying shit outside steam.
>>739510938Didn't they try that once and failed miserably?
>>739511085>>739511104>microsoft buys your favorite franchise>no longer available on PCim glad we're not caring so we can allow them to do shit like this
It's fucking over. Steam is finished. Time to hang the noose, Gabe
>>739510938the only microsoft game I bought on steam was hi fi rush and they fucking closed the studio so who fucking cares.
What's next for Microsoft? Electricity?
>>739511167If Microsoft buy the franchise then you can be sure the next game will be dogshit and not worth purchasing exclusive or not.
>>739510938Steam doesn't need microsoft. Microsoft needs steam.They gonna stop it being installed on windows? Don't think so.I cannot remember the last microsoft or xbox game I bought.
>>739510938No more... Halo? No wait mcc is already on steam and has all the good games. No more Gears of War... but I think that franchise is already dead. Well the new Fable... but that's looks gay so I wasn't gonna buy it.
>>739511349What do you have against farting fairies bruh
Steam machine might actually gain steam if Microsoft doesn't try to put Steam on their next XBOX.
>>739511304absolute truth nuke
Oh no bros I’m gonna sell my pc and rebuy every single game on ps5 now, this post finally did it…it’s over I’m just going to stop playing pc and sell my pc and I’m going to buy consoles and only play consoles going forward I’ve been permanently demoralized the threads worked…
>>739511167Then I will play a different game. The only "popular" game microsoft bought recently is minecraft though so who cares.
>>739510938Does that mean the games released by AB and Bethesda will move to their own platform?
>>739510938kek pcpoojeets taking Ls latelyfirst switch 2 not being hackable anytime soonthen sony pulls the plug offand now microsoft to do the samesad time to be a streetshitting pcpoojeetbut hey, at least you stinky annoying faggots can now enjoy shitting up this board with endless amounts of corny consolewar and salesfagging threads and put your $100 pcs to good use!
>>739510938Good for them, honestly. It's fucking Windows, there should be a million storefronts where you can buy your games. It's retarded to give a cut to some fat fuck who doesn't even make anything.
>>739511461>someone just stole my bike, but i can just buy a different bike so who cares
Nintendo is not on steam.Why should microsoft?
awesome, go from making almost no money to literally no money
NO NONO OOON NOOOO PLEASE DONT TAKE AWAY HALO FROM ME
>>739511627Get better analogies, this is embarrassing.
>own a ps5>own an xbox>own a switch 2>own a pc with steam controllerliterally dont care
>>739510938They would sell less like the time Microsoft wasn't on Steam which made Microsoft use Steam in the first place.
>>739511167Microsoft bought like a dozen studios and literally released zero games with them before shutting them down
>>739510938It was retarded for Sony to leave and it'll be retarded for Microsoft to leave. Just make an official xbox emulator and sell classic games through it. The easiest money they'll ever make.
>>739510938this is a good thing, it'll kill off xbox for good
>>739511550>>739511451
sorry, but if I have to install another launcher for TES 6, I will not play TES 6I don't care that I've been waiting for it for what will probably be 20 years by the time it comes outSorry, Microsoft focus testers, but I just won't do it
>>739510938>wait, noooo, come back, oh that would be so terrible...
>>739511407Square Enix makes better faeries.
>>739510938literally who?
steamcucks shook
>>739510938ORWhy doesn't Microsoft just buy Valve from Gaben for 100 billion dollarinos?
>>739511597shalom rabbi, how goes the latest court case?
>>739511891Not for sale, and it's probably worth way more than that.
Oh no no no sisters I cant jez at all after the big day
>>739511153Not really.GFWL didn't ever have many download exclusives and every major release using it was released either also on disc (Halo 2) or digitally on other storefronts such as Steam or EA Origin (Bulletstorm), often with GFWL still intact which still causes issues today.MS Store had a few exclusives during its early days but even during that period (Recore, Hydro Thunder Hurricane and a few other titles) Microsoft was still releasing some of their games on Steam (Quantum Break got a Steam release a few months late) so they never went all in on MS Store.And of course pre-GFWL being on Steam at all was the weird choice rather than the other way around.
>>739511153everyone, without fail, eventually comes crawling back to steam
It's ok, lazy yacht man will win the lawsuit against the payment processor jews in 2 weeks and cumbrain shovelware will return to Steam.
>>739511974>GFWL didn't ever have many download exclusivesLook at this console faggot thinking exclusives matter.
Fuck, Xbox. Steam doesn't need their shitty games.
>>739510938oh no! no more uhhhelder scrollsfalloutdoompreywolfensteindishonoredquakecall of dutyspyrooverwatchdiablotony hawk'sminecraft dungeons/legendsage of empireshalogears of warcrash bandicootfablewe didn't need them anyway, right transisters
>>739510938It's the smart thing to do. All Steam does is hold back PC gaming.
TOTAL STEAM DEATH
>>739510938They would have to make some games to not put on Steam first for this to matter at all. My grandma isn't releasing any games on Steam either but it isn't exactly news because no-one was expecting any new games from her either.
>>739511167Nothing good gets released by microshart
>>739511167Realistically Microsoft isn't buying anything of importance with the shape it's in, at least if they know what's good for them. They better focus their efforts on creating good exclusives instead of thinking throwing money at other people's IPs will save them.Do they even have any noteworthy studio left under their wing that could make something genuinely good if given the chance? I haven't played anything microsoft related in so long.
>>739510938Who cares
>>739512082The only one of these worth the slightest fuck to PC is Minecraft and given how easy it is to mod, it'll just get pirated more than it already does.
>>739511891microsoft will buy valve, probably by the end of the decade, gabe is old and not very healthy, his loser sons have no interest in business, ipo is out of the question because everyone will get gaped by the shareholders, gabe will sell valve to microsoft with a pinky promise that microsoft won't ruin valve(desu bethesda is doing ok under ms)
>>739510938even fucking EA failed to leave Steam and came backthe instant you leave you lose 100% of impulse purchases from consoomers during the big sales
>>739511853>A fairy only Elliot can see and hearSo hes a schizo?
>>739510938Tick tock.
I remember when it seemed like every publisher was removing their game from steam in favor of their own launcher. Practically all of them came back.
>>739511349I mean no new Bethesda games on Steam is kinda bad news.For Bethesda, I mean, since that kills the modding scene and now Todd has to finish his games.
>>739510938I don't know what this even means, they're pulling out like Sony and not publishing their games on Steam anymore? I don't think anyone was buying xbox games on Steam or would even notice them being gone.
Roblox
>>739511167>own over 30 studios>cant make fucking video games
>>739511641Nintendo doesn't release PC games
>>739512321All the people who made those decisions were fired/retired/have moved on, so now it's time for the next generation of CEOs to re-learn the lessons of the past. Time is a flat circle, and whatnot
>>739510938that would be short and medium term suicide
nobody will ever use the Microshart store, it sucks ass even worse than EGSit looks like it belongs on a phone
>>739512082Correct, I don’t need those, what now?
>>739512339Don't worry your pretty little head about it, Microsoft is surely going to shut down Bethesda before they even release a new TES or Fallout since nobody has the patience for 15 year dev cycles.
>>739510938Everyone realizing both the master race is not as big as one would think with all the only chatter and that AI has irreparably killed pc gaming.Rest in piss Gabe, finally the true evil in gaming is getting put down. Serves you right for fucking killing physical gaming.
>>739512339>new >Bethesda gameslmao
>>739512321>EA - Origin>Ubisoft - Uplay>Blizzard - Battle net>Bethesda - Bethesda Launcher>Rockstar - Rockstar Games Launcher>Epic - EGSthere's a bunch more
>>739511085>>739511104Pc bitch niggas say this while having several search tabs open for ps5 emulator status and shit lmfao
>>739511153Yes but that was before they had the GamePass infrastructure
>>739511167He said Steam, not PC. Microsoft has their own PC store already.
>>739512390Neither will Xbox
>>739512430That's not important and not how the team will spin it.Microshart store sales are up 20% will be what they're parading around until a completely different part of the company says>total sales down 80%and it will never impact the 34 year old MBA's career who proposed this.
>>739512265>gabe will sell valve to microsoftHe founded Valve as a fuck you to MS, doubt he'd sell it to them.
>>739511167I think the only thing I might miss would be Gears of War E-day.
>>739510938Thank you for bringing Halo 3 and ODST to Steam for cheap I guess. I don't care about your other games.
>>739511167>allowwhat the fuck are you gonna do to stop them retard
>>739512403>comedy villain repeats the same errors and never learns
>>739511407you dont like your MC being zesty chud?
>>739512497I don't understand why it's so hard to make a launcher that functions. It's like they've lost even the most rudimentary technical skills.
>>739512515Ps5 emulator to emulate what exactly?
>>739512295Faeries are real, you see. Especially when they are cute little girls.
>>739512551microsoft tried it once a few years ago but got told to fuck offwhen gabe retires/dies they'll definitely try itagain, they're fucking leeches
>>739512619saaros
>>739512528Well, you are technically right, since they don't release games at all
>>739512551not really, he's in good relations with microsoft, hell he founded valve a stone's throw away from microsoft
>some retard says a thing on twitter>OH MY SOIJAK I NEEEEEEEEEEEEED TO POST THIS ON FOURCHAN DOT ORG SLASH VEEE UOOOOOOOOOOOH GIVE ME ATTENTION GUYS
>>739510938If you don't make games, it doesn't matter whether those nonexistent games would have been put on Steam or not. Microsoft are never going to make a decent Halo game again. So what would it matter that these Halo games that don't exist wouldn't be put on Steam if they did exist? What would it matter that a hypothetical Banjo and Kazooie game that Microsoft will never make wouldn't be on Steam if they weren't incompetent and were able to produce games?You can go on and on and on. There isn't going to be a new Viva Pinata because microsoft is incapable of making games. Why would it matter that this game that doesn't exist wouldn't be put on steam? There isn't going to be a new Blue Dragon game because microsoft can't make games. Why would it matter that this game wouldn't be on Steam? There isn't going to be a new Spyro game because microsoft doesn't know how to bring games into existence, so why would it matter that this nonexistent game won't be on Steam? They're never going to make another Perfect Dark, they're never going to make another Killer Instinct, they're never going to make a new Conker, they're never going to make a new Blinx, they're never going to make any new games in any of the franchises they're squatting on. Why the fuck would anyone care that all these games that will never exist won't come out on Steam? This is just silly, they're never going to be anywhere.
>>739510938What are we gonna lose? Microsoft flight simulator and Fable? Perish the thought.
>>739512606He walks like how I feel I look like when I walk in the grocery store before noticing and being really self conscious and changing my walking style.
>>739510938How am I going to buy Todd's game?
I cannot think of a single thing that Jez has ever gotten right.
>>739512612Because a launcher that works takes like three or four talented employees two weeks to put together, and that's too expensive and slow, it's better to outsource it to 20 Indians that make it in one week (it doesn't work)
whats Timdog's opinion on this topic?
>>739512497A few of these pre-date Steam thoughBattle.net is ancient, and EA Origin was just a rebranding of an older EA download service that allowed digital game purchases before third party titles could be sold on Steam
>>739511891if they wanted to sell they would have done it years ago
>>739512703what are we supposed to talk about here these days then? most gamers are either on discord, steam, ps xbox platforms
Yeah we're messing out on....uhhhhhhhh
>>739511304my thoughts exactly
>>739512082>elder scrollsnever coming out>falloutshit>doombecame shit>preyits never getting a sequel>wolfensteintrash ass dogshit>dishonoredonly first one was good>quakedead>call of dutythank god>spyrodead>overwatchdead>diablodogshit>tony hawk'sjust play the OGs>minecraft dungeons/legendsfucking kek>age of empirescant play it on console>halohasnt been good and never will be>gears of wardead>crash bandicootsnoy?>fableits not gonna be good
>>739511167microsoft doesn't own a single good franchise so this just sounds like a skill issue. get better taste, faggot.
>>739512801battle.net the server browser is ancient, battle.net the launcher/store thing is newotherwise gamespy is also a launcher
>>739512754what are you gay or something
>>739512082Yeah. Those series are either dead or shit now.So...what are WE missing?
such highly sought after games like uhh Hellblade 2?what the fuck does microsoft even publish these days? Bethesda is so over the hill at this point it's not even worth mentioning them, tes6 is gonna be trash and everyone knows it
>>739510938Microsoft isn't leaving Steam until they complete what they started with Windows RT, which was to lock down the OS to their own curated storefront. They've already tried exclusivity with the Microsoft Store and failed.Microsoft already made the decision long ago that they were going to merge the Xbox brand into Windows
>>739512770what will release first? TeS6 or the 20th anniversary edition of skyrim?
>>739511304Trvke
>>739510938>GFWLEwwwww
>>739510938So uhThat means just pirate them right?All four games that come out before they backtrack this.
>>739512946No I just have fucked up bones in my legs/hips and cake so I catch myself unintentionally walking like a fruitcake sometimes.
>>739511167>no longer availableFixed, going on their track record on killing off studios
>>739510938Microsoft has an enormous amount of IPs that they have purchased. If they did their own service like Epic and Steam I can see it being successful. They clearly want you renting your games and not owning any of them. So I can see them leaving Steam and forcing Goy Pass on to all who want to play their games.
>>739510938How many times have they tried their own marketplace, only to fail miserably against steam?
>>739510938Microshit is pure dogshit, why is a fresh install - before debloat, using 7gb of ram just idling? It's jeetslop
>>739512082I’m fine with that. None of those IPs have produced a good entry in a decade.
>>739512874>minecraft dungeons/legends>fucking kekhey i like those>crash bandicoot>snoy?ms actually owns the ip now
>>739512082imagine if microsoft actually made games using the millions of IP they just sit on and do nothing with
>>739512792>make it in one weekYou've never worked with offshore Indians. It's always late and overbudget
>>739511167>>739511104Even Ninja Gaiden got sharted hard with NG4 under Microsoft
oh no we won't get fallout 5 when it comes out 25 years from now
Don't they not even have Halo anymore?Minecraft was never on Steam.What would Steam even lose?
>>739512082>elder scrolls6 isn't coming out for years yet, and when it finally does MS will be back on steam anyway.>falloutSee Elder scrolls.>doomThe doom reboots suck cock>preyNever making another >wolfensteinNope>dishonoredNot happening either>quakeLiterally like 21 years since a release that wasn't champions. >call of dutyLMAO>spyroThis one would be sad if they did fucking anything with it.>overwatchAlready on steam and a third game probably scares blizzard to much to even try>diabloLmao>tony hawk'sEh? I'm sure pro skater 32 is highly anticipated. >minecraft dungeons/legendsMinecraft isn't on steam anyway and everyone owns 20 copies who cares>age of empiresCan't speak on it>haloFucking LMAO>gears of wardead no one cares >crash bandicootSame as Spyro could be sad but whatever >fableDei trash as fuck literally no one gives a shit, which is sad because despite how shitty fable is they were kinda fun. 2-1----3
>>739511167they did that decades ago with rare and put out literally nothing of fucking value
It'd suck if this meant Clockwork Revolution missed Steam but I guess I can live without it.
>>739513230We'd lose the UE5 Halo CE Remake
>>739513183But that's not what the prediction says, and that's what matters in the decicion making. You're thinking about the kind of stuff that means you just aren't management material.
>>739511258This
>>739510938Helix DOA as expected
>>739512517...you actually have a microsoft account?
microsoft could buy the entire vidya industry and make it all exclusive and I still wouldn't use their shitty jeet bloatware store
>>739510938>What if Microsoft left Steam all together?They wouldn't get a dime from me ever again.
>>739512595public outrage
Who actually gives a shit about snoy and microsoft games? I literally have a PS5 and Xbox and never buy any first party games as they are all shit this gen.
>>739512815Videogames. Fucking videogames. It's the simplest thing in the world. VIDEOGAMES. Not twitter posts. Not article headline screencaps. Not politics. Not culture war slop. VIDEOGAMES.>b-but games r badDiscuss games you think are good or play a fucking videogame you twat.
It's just funny how all the corporate CEOs that have all these "Steam killer" stores ideas fail to understand that the reason Steam is so strong is because of it's long term reputation.They've being constant for 20 years and always kept their customers happy. Why would anyone switch? That's not something you can overcome with money alone.
>>739513423/v/ is about video game culture, it's literally stated on the rules don't complain when people are talking about it
It's not just video games but lately, a lot of company have being doing complete stupid moves like this or doing things that are completely against the users/consumers.Why is that? Why are so many companies doing moves that are outright hostiles to their clients?It's not a right/left thing either, it's like a lot of CEO are now thinking "being an asshole/betraying our customers = more money"Some things which were praised by many when introduced are being removed and they are expecting people to stay happy?
As long as ninja gaiden is not considered a microsoft IP I dont care desu, all the rest they have seems to be westernslop I have zero interest in, although I do have to acknowledge the one good game they funded and I had fun with it was NG4
>>739513525Even if Steam goes nuts and start decreasing the quality of the store and so, nobody will leave Steam because there are people with thousands of games on there.
>>739513541it's like they don't teach anyone in evil businessman school that trust is a currency worth more than any number on paper or a screen.
>>739510938>Famed inside Jez Corden says Microsoft is abandoning Steamno he didn't. what the fuck is this retarded thread
>>739513617Koei Tecmo's got the copyright to NG so don't you worry.
>>739511304Beat me to it. It still sucks though since you know they just deleted a franchise you like.
>>739513525A steam killer is a much of a pipe dream as the CoD killer. Or halo killer. It's impossible to beat steam because Steam has been there for over 20 years and has a massive user baseWill steam eventually fall behind? Maybe yeah but it won't be because of a competitor
>>739513290man it is insane that Microsoft haven't done a single thing with Halo in the last few decadesThat was their flagship franchise and they've spun their wheels doing nothing for so long that no-one even cares anymore
>>739510938They and sony both will come crawling back once their new consoles fail to meet sales exceptions and their AAAA games won't sell billion copies because they are limited by exclusivity
microsoft is the american Embracer in terms of slurping up IPs and then doing fucking nothing with themthe only difference is they have infinity money backing them
look now just hold on a fucking minute here, can we just slow the fuck down, stop….I just sunk $8000 into my battlerig to future proof it for the next 18 months or so, I only use Steam and will never use another storefront and now you’re telling me I might not have access to all the games?can these corporations stop fucking genociding us PC Valve aficionados just for one fucking day…
>>739513541>Why is that? Why are so many companies doing moves that are outright hostiles to their clients?Companies need unlimited growth, and Valve takes 30% of income to cover the fees associated with hosting content.Some random clown in a suit who partied their way through college until daddy pulled strings to get them this job walks into a meeting with a bunch of old clueless fuckers and proceeds to tell them>why are we giving them 30% of our income? We charge others 30% to use our services, not the other way around!And they'll end up costing the company more money leading to a wave of layoffs but they'll have already got a promotion for being a forward thinker and thus insulated from their mistakes.
>>739513541If you can make a modest short term profit, you get promoted before it becomes the problem of the person taking your place, who simply should have been as good as you were. If you can frame what you did as a profit, that's good enough, too.
Dont care nothing could convince me to buy a console. If all companies stopped releasing game on pc I would find a new hobby or keep replaying what I already have
>>739510938Let's see before Forza Horizon 6 that now has an incredible number of Concurrent players the next big Microsoft title on Steam is...Overwatch® with 70k Next is Call of Duty® with 44kNext is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 33,270Diablo® IV 32,542Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 24,577Out of all of these COD, Skyrim and AoE 2 have total Steam integration and wouldn't work without them without significant modifications.
This will fail and every game will be ported to steam again in a few years and then discounted during the steam summer sale which is when I might consider buying it.
I hate PC only fats so much, probably triply as much those who only use Steam, disgusting
>>739514206nobody wants to use the microsoft store ranjeesh
I hope Gears of War E-day is still coming to steam. Nothing else to look forward to.
>>739510938I would say MS Gaming dies but in the unlikely case they would go open war with Steam by buying up anyone they can and strong arming maybe even the store....It would be very interesting to be honest. Problem is that MS just released the only good Xbox game left, Forza Horizon and nothing bar a COD or Elder Scrolls would make people use their store.
>>739510938Who?
Gaming is healing
>>739514206I'm not using your bloatware store Aisha.
>>739510938>have published nothing worth playing since Halo 3oh no anyway
>>739512606Have him sent to my chambers.
Even if we pretend this wasn't imagined xitter shitter drama, I can't see why anyone would defend this. Why would you want to use a shitty, proprietary platform that offers nothing except being sucked up microshaft's shitter, when people freely choose Steam for its features and policies? Even if we forget the GFWL abortion, they tried this shit with >Halo MCC + Halo 5 catastrophe>Sea of Thieves >others where they made more money and had more exposure coming onto Steam than they did in months of being exclusive to MS garbage barge and Xbox app. Same thing with how their biggest failures were on GamePass because they refused to work with Steam and instead expected people to A) pay a subscription B) buy DLC for games you didn't own on a platform you gave zero shits about and C) that games would cycle off. No wonder it failed - they would have done better working with Steam but no they refused and GamePass became an expensive failure. Fucking UBISOFT has a better subscription in UPlay+ than GamePass could ever be AND they finally came back to Steam after seeeing how the faustian bargain with Epic failed. MS and Sony dreaming of the "good ol days" of console wars will lead to them failing massively and raping the last bits of goodwill they had with the community. If they wanted to crawl back uphill they'd both be smart to invert this and start releasing games on PC via Steam (whereever else you want is fine too, but people choose Steam for a reason) concurrently at launch instead of spending months or years delaying it and then wondering why PC players aren't bending over backward for day 1 prices. Die in a goddamn fire, console faggotry; its long overdue.
>>739513917Microsoft is going full force short term grows. Their indian CEO is out of his mind. They fire US workers left and right to replace them with cheaper indian while going all in on Copilot no one wants with everything in their catalogue becoming progressively worse. Investors probably think this is a good idea for the reason you listed but I doubt it will work out on the long.
I have yet to see one single reason why Microsoft buying Valve and putting everything on Steam onto Gamepass and charging a low subscription price to access your existing library is such a bad thing
>>739514539It's retarded. There's your reason.
if Amazon couldn't break Steammicroshart won'tmaybe microshart should focus on fixing it's vibecoded updates and shit reputation
>>739514434I don't believe the fanfic of Jez either but the reason Gaben makes the SteamOS is exactly because MS has to do something eventually or they will lose their grip on gaming. Xbox is already on its way out and people won't use their store more. This is not about game sales but control.
>>739510938>No more copilot
>>739511304To be honest that goes for any game franchise or dev you like getting bought out. Once a larger entity owns them that's a death sentence for what you liked about them. Maybe they'll have 1 or 2 more good games, if they were being worked on before the buyout. But eventually? Enshitified. Happens whether it's Microshit, EA, Snoy, or whoever else.
>>739514539No. That's why. No. I don't want mircoslop to own my games,
>still can’t play Lost Planet 2 onlineI fucken hate MS so much
I bought one of the Forza Motorsports on the windows store, and it won't let me download it. It just always says download failed. I have explicit exceptions in my antivirus for the Windows Store. It still just says download failed with no further error codes to help me debug. So no, I'm not buying anything off the windows store. That would be retarded.
>>739514528>Microsoft is going full force short term grows.That's every publicly traded company.They figured out the hack that once you get big enough or offer a critical service you literally cannot go negative because the US government will bail you out if you manage to colossally fuck up.People are cattle and will forget how evil a company is if they put out some funny millennial adverts.
>>739513669Trust is a currency that's only worth it in the long term. The basic evil businessman strategy is to burn through it and any other resources as quickly as possible, profit from the short term gains and get promoted or transferred before the fallout happens.Caring about the business long term is a rookie error.
>>739512265>(bethesda is doing ok under ms)>released 1 game>It was a massive flop and the dlc didn't save it>ruined other game with a big turd of a patch>another studio did a remaster of one of their old games>it's been left in a bad state without patching for about a yearYeah Bethesda's doing great lol
>>739513727oh yeah so I really dont care, even if they bring blue dragon from the dead I doubt it will be good
>>739513541In the era of private equity and venture capital, being “successful” just means convincing these investors of your success. Most private equity valuations weight revenue earned from subscriptions as triple revenue from sales (as in $1 of subscription is treated as $3 on the balance sheet when valuing them). That means that, functionally, subscriptions ARE worth 3x as much, because the actual revenue generated doesn’t matter, just the VC valuation. If you can convert 50% of your Steam customers into goypass customers, even if you lose the other 50% as customers forever, you increase your valuation.That’s all that matters so that’s what you do. The bankruptcy hearings are someone else’s problem
>>739513781Valve would have to go public to even become half as bad as its competition.
>>739513656New platforms don't target existing users. They target new users. Boomers are still on Facebook. They never left. But how many people <25 do you know who has a Facebook account? It will be the same with a proper Steam competitor. Steam users will never leave. But there is possibility a storefront that focuses hard on a teen audience could scoop up users before they ever go to Steam. Fortnite had some success with this.
>let's pull our games from Steam and put them on our own storefront!because this has historically proven to be a fantastic financial move.
>>739515118Yes just look at uhhh>Ubisoft failed>EA failed>Epic failedWell they can always keep trying lmao
>release Helix but not with retarded price tag>make goypass better >give third parties shit like CoD titles>everything else Helix exclusive >port shit year+ later to PC storefronts>show that you're commited to this There you go, with this Xbox might come back and MS still would get some PC money.
So i just gone done reading the thread and it seems that valve sisters lost uncomfortably hard
>>739515270how so? no one actually said microsoft was pulling anything from steam. or are you just extremely retarded?
>>739515309Lower your licence when talking to me, cattle.
>>739511627More like, my usual go to restaurant closed, luckily there's 1000 other good restaurants in my city.
>>739515370so you're extremely retarded. got it
>>739515370Retarded
even less reason to buy the Steam Machine, LMAO
>>739515407>>739515443ALARMLicence cattle have fled their ranchALARM
>>739514653Gaben made SteamOS because he remembered when MS announced ahead of time that they'd try an even more locked down GFWL bullshit thing that became the Windows Store and the UWP executable style (which is basically a self contained app that you can't even mod, run directly, see files within) originally. He was right to do it - he used to work there after all and remembered>Embrace, Extend, Extinguish - the MS credoso a decade ago after seeing the Win8 appification mobile garbage approach started supporting and developing Linux which would mean neither he and Steam nor the players would be locked to Microsoft. >lose their grip on gaming They should and they've earned it They've enshittified everything they touch. Look at how they've wrecked Activision and more importantly Blizzard even more. They could make a fortune without having to shit things out on their store and instead release things widely, but they instead just fuck up all the attempts in front of their face; its enshittification and greed/control at its best, as opposed to Gaben who found out that doing something worthwhile amazingly gets people wanting to use your platform even if you don't lock it down.
>>739510938never ever using microjeet's store. they ban your account and steal your money. plus microjeet hates jap gamesand xbox mode has even worse DRM than denuvo
>>739512515this is true if you replace ps5 with a platform that has games
>>739511167oh, in that case I hit up fitgirl and play the exe through Wine instead.
They were never going to have steam on Xbox anyways that would be full retard. They literally would not make any money if people just bought from the steam store
i won't buy tes6 until it's on steam. i waited 15 years i can wait a few more.
>>739511167Microsoft is the worse EA: they spent an entire gen giving half the western AAA industry the Rare-treatment and bought them all out instead of producing anything just to sit on them, at best coasting off the few that actively develop big titles like CoD or Fallout. Pulling a Snoy and closing themselves off instead of accepting the SEGA route they were going makes no difference when they currently produce nothing of value to begin with, they can't even get fucking Halo right anymore.
>>739511167Banjo Kazooie Nuts N Bolts was 20 years ago.
>>739516240I mean given Bethesda's recent history TES6 isn't even a day 1 for me anymore it's a wait and see
>>739513331...you actually buy games?
>>739511952how many yachts would it take?
>>739511167rip RARE
>>739512515Why would anyone make an emulator that has no games?
>>739516282i'm assuming it's good of course. if it's bad i'll probably never get it unless it gets some insane mods.
>>739510938Literally who?
>>739512515I use my PC to torrent movies, it's the same as a PS5 emulator.
>>739511167NO NOT FALLOU->remembers bethesda directly saidf they will be quintupling down on all of the elements that made fallout 4 a boring game to play, infinite random quests, no story, infinitely respawning map, borderlands loot system
>>739510938>abandonthey never supported steam, valve has been building steamos to ensure they're not under ms boot
>>739511167>starfield was abandoned>fallout has been dead for years as they milk 76 dry>Overwatch is dead>Crash 4 and Rumble re-killed the franchise>Wolfenstein got Joker 2'd before Joker 2All the shit I like was already killed, not going to lose anything if they go away
>>739513331I made one because I wanted to try out Sea of Thieves a couple of years ago and the key for microshart store version was 10% of the steam oneWorst experience I've ever had with a store. At least Epic didn't lie to me about uninstalling the game while making the folder with it undeletable forcing me to google for a workaround (apparently a very common issue). Game was fucking shit too
>>739516757fallout 5 also probably won't come out for like 20 years at this rate. Bethesda is an utter meme
>>739510938Everything is already in a worse state than it was before, dead, or AoE2 and they aren't about to rip that game from steam.
>>739516871the microshart store makes EGS look amazing by comparisonit also has builds of a lot of vidyas that just don't work with mods. Utter trash
Full support to Microsoft
>>739512052>Only two good gamesSad.
>>739511167>Microsoft bought it-Then its already dead.
>>739510938Oh, so we are at that point of the cycle where every publisher are gonna sell on their own store, only to come back to steam in a couple of years... again.
People forget Microsoft tried to pull this off like 3 or more times already and ALWAYS CAME CRAWLING BACK
>age of games and forza are the most popular microsoft games
>>739517605I still don't understand why Flight Sim 2024 exists
>>739511104See al the games on game pass? Try all of them for>Oh no... no more...
>>739517835I haven't really looked into flight sim since 2020 came out. Is 2024 barely different or something?
A lot of culty behavior going on in this thread
>>739517976Offer a better service, jamboy.
>>739517894it feels more like a content/visual update for 2020 than it's own gameand it broke a lot of shit like the npc ATC which was barebones in 2020 but it just werked
>>739510938Microslop proving over and over moving to linux was the right choice.Not that I've had a legitimate copy of windows in almost 2 decades, so I haven't really been giving them money most of my adult life. But now they have no real ability to affect my life.I feel an amazing amount of shame I bought and defended the Zune back in the day.
>>739517605>Grounded 2Kinda would be sad to see that go, but based on the massive slowdown of progress I'm beginning to suspect Obsidian really is going tits up and it'll never get finished.
>>739510938MS needs Steam more than the other way around.XBOX™ is selling like dogshit
>>739511304whats to stop them from removing previous games in the franchise for sale, chuddy?
>>739510938>Sony abandons SteamWhatever.>Microsoft abandons SteamWhatever.
>>739510938>tranny games for negro trannies no longer on steamTHANK YOU MICROSOFT
>>739510938>famed insiderlollmaorofl
>>739510938they have a lot of studios that would be pretty bad news
So what? No more Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Call of Duty? I don't play any of this junk but I really doubt it. The Microsoft Store isn't a Steam killer.
>>739510938Their loss I guess.
>>739518657Okay Squall
>>739517894from what I recall it had some shit like>actual career mode which you buy planes and fly different missions depending on which ones you have and manage your fleet, was kinda sloppy because everything around the objectives was procedurally generated>charts integration>could actually step out and do walk-arounds and pre-flight inspections, interacting with your plane>I think (You) could kinda choose to have a base download world mesh and have the rest of it streamed as (You) fly around, helping with install sizes>more accurate flight modeling and ground handling, fuselage, wings and windows can actually freeze over and increase dragmain thing is that it'll always end up kinda barebones depending on how much of a flight sim autist, can't beat having dedicated addon dev teams and your own library you've built up over the years. I also mainly remember Asobo saying they'd offer long-term support for Flight Sim 2020 but lmao
>>739511167>>microsoft buys your favorite franchiseI don't have turd world western taste so they will never buy my Japanese franchises.
>>739512082Doom is the only halfway decent game on that list and they started putting the nu Doom games on GOG. So whatever yeah.
>>739519723lol wtf
>>739510938>Microsoft being complete retardsNothing new then?
>>739519680based weebchad
>>739510938Nobody is gonna follow them back to the Microslop Store
>>7395190372020 has still been getting updates roughly every 4 months so they weren't bullshitting about that at least
wtf i can't wait for GFWL 2.0!!
>>739519890They can learn the hard wayAgain
>>739516316Gaben has his own yacht building company now. He can just build them.
>no more ps games >no more Xbox games>no Nintendo gamesWhat the fuck does pc even have lmao?
>>739510938only microsoft game i own is the master chief collection because it was $10, they can keep their shitty troon rpgshit on their launcher
>>739510938Which notable games would leave Steam?
>>739512258How long ago did you transition for your testosterone to be so low that you tope AND SENT this fucking shit, nigger
>>739510938Is this literally only because of their own mistake uploading forza 6 with no drm and encryption
>>739512276The big sales have not existed for like 10 years if not more
>>739511167What actually happens:>microsoft buys your favorite franchise>fires the entire dev team 6 months later and never does anything with the IP
>>739510938>Microsoft knows Steam is 95% of the PC gaming market>Nobody willingly uses their store so they have to force Goypass on it>Somehow think cutting off 95% of a sales base is a good thing.MicroSlop would be retarded to do that, but given the ABSOLUTE STATE OF Windows 11, I shouldn't be surprised.
>>739512082All dogshit that has been raped by DEI.
>>739511153Not off Steam, but they tried to force X-box Live (sorry, sorry: "Games for Windows" [X-box] Live) onto PC gamers and PC gamers told them to get bent. Especially when they wanted X-box Live rental pricing to play them online.
>>739510938NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT OUTER WORLDS 3 XBOX EXCLUSIVEI NEED TO HEAR HOW LA'SHAUNDA ROMANCED SHANIQAH AND NOW THE MC IS REPELLANT TO WOMEN
>>739520676I remember trying to play Dark Souls PTDE back in the day and ended up uninstalling bc GFWL kept logging in and out constantlynearly 15 years later and microshart hasn't changed one bit
>>739512082>elder scrollsDead because of dev hell>falloutwon't see another brand new game for over 10 years>doomThey've gotten worse>preyLiterally dead and thrown away>wolfensteinWill be seen as woke in the modern era>dishonoredPretty sure that's done>quakeNo new games>call of dutySlop>spyroHasn't seen a new game in over a decade>overwatchL M A O>diabloPeople are continuing to lose interest >tony hawk'sDead>minecraft dungeons/legendsonly children and content farmers care>age of empiresBoomers>haloDead beyond belief >gears of warDead remaster slop>crash bandicootSame as spyro but worse since 4 flopped>fableActually wokeThis is pretty much just a list of shit people used to like but will never be enjoyable again due to generation long dev times and unfaithful remasters/reimaginings
>>739512082All of those are either shit or haven't been good in over a decade. What do you mean?
Didn't Microsoft have a 10-year plan for Halo Infinite campaign updates fucking 5 years ago and we have yet to get the Year 1 campaign update yet? And rumors are they are making a battle royale instead? Good riddance.
>>739512082Imagine if they make WoW an Xbox only game
>>739512082so many of those are dead and then ones like Wolfenstein are beyond tiresome at this point
>>739511150This. Microsoft and windows in general is such a completely dogshit platform that even talking about this is a bad pr move for them. No one wants anything to do with windows its just the only real option for casual gamers.
>>739510938That's his speculation, but if they try this, Xbox is completely fucked.>no one is buying the Xbox Series X|S>no one can find them in stores because they got pulled>Xbox doesn't exist in may regions globally>Xbox Helix console is niche and will be sold directly-to-consumers at $1200>the more affordable OEMs, looking at the handheld, will start at $800>PC = Steam, not Xbox>no one is going to buy the OEMs when retailers will promote the Switch 2, PS6 home, and PS6 handheld at $500, $600, and $700-$800 respectively>Steam Machine and Steam Deck 2 will sell more at $600 and $700 respectively>Game Pass will eat up their sales unless they end day one releases>Game Pass is on the decline>Xbox has until 2030 to make up that 30% margins>due to Helix being Windows 11, it will be the only console-like device with forever DRM online checks with no permanent offline licenses>Xbox is just a mode on Windows 11 now>Xbox literally has no games and no dev wants to make games for XboxHow the fuck can Xbox even remotely have exclusives, Xbox isn't even going to make it to 2030?
>>739519969You mean UWP? Because that exist since 2012
>>739510938they took 16+ years to develop TES6 and then gave me the go ahead to pirate it. so nice of them
>>739511167Who would be stupid enough to sell to Microsoft after the Bethesda and ABK debacle?
Btw has anyone been following the news that the californian jews want to infiltrate china and make it as pozzed as japan? Microsoft is already doing deep collabs with netease while rotting the chinese player's minds with mental illness flags and masculine females.
>>739511153Yup, back in 2016, Microsoft is a joke to think Xbox still has life in it, it's dead as a console and dead as a PC.
>>739521257chinks are already censoring their game so it must already be happening
This is a last ditch effort by both Sony and Microsoft to get exclusives on their next-gen consoles because they're both doing so badly. It's not going to work and eventually they'll just give up and both go fully third-party. Just be patient, PCbros. This is just a final hail mary from two dying men basically.
>>739511641Nintendo is successful, Xbox is in the shitter with no recovery in sight.
>>739510938oh boy i cant wait to try the faggot version of steam that all the indians at microsoft put out
>>739511740>It was retarded for Sony to leaveNot really, their console actually sells.>it'll be retarded for Microsoft to leaveVery because Xbox is literally fucking dead.
at least on Epic the game builds you are downloading are the same as on steam/gog/piracythe ones on the microsoft store are often out of date or completely different for god knows what reason
>>739512265>microsoft will buy valve, probably by the end of the decadeLMAO
>>739521494...the xbox app? it used to be trash garbage now it's merely mediocre
SAAARS PLEASE BE BUYING THE OUT WORLD AND THE HALO EVOLVING COMBAT ON THE GAME PASS
>>739521368It's only going to work for one, Xbox is dead, they're going in an incredibly shit direction.
>>739512082I only care about elder scrolls and if they force their shitty launcher on me, I'll just pirate it
>>739510938>MYTHHALO being retarded again
>>739512515Do y- do you do stuff like this?
>>739512515There needs to be games first before anyone cares to make an emulator for PS5 LOL
>>739512515You can count on one fingerless hand the amount of people who want a PS5 emulator.
>>739518582Xcucks don't seem to get that Nintendo doesn't need to put games on Steam, PlayStation didn't and don't need to put games on Steam. It's Xbox, as a console, that failed as why they had to put everything on Steam. Looking at Microsoft's expensive direction with Xbox as a PC in the future, I don't know how exclusives are even going to work for them. This is a gamble that's not going to pay off at all for them.
>>739515206Xbox is a PC now, it's no longer a console no matter how many times Microsoft wants to call it one.
>>739510938Isn't Forza making bank on Steam? It would be pretty stupid for Microsoft to do so, but then again Microsoft is ran by retards just like Snoy.
if everyone leaves maybe valve will make games again
>>739522660if every big publisher left steam, there would be a golden age of indie games
>>739514880Not me, I still haven't tasted tranny piss, Bud, since they had a faggot in drag promote their shit ass "drink".
>>739511104Realistically, if MS did pull out of Steam it'd likely mean>existing titles stay up>new titles don't release on steamWhich would be fucking retarded after how well Forza did, but if we consider this that would mean>No Halo remake on PC (nobody cares since no MP)>No new CoD games on PC (nobody cares since COD's big money maker is Warzone now)>No Gears of War E-Day (maybe a decent enough deal to be concerned about but Gears has long since worn out its popularity so...)And that's about it. Every other IP they have is fucking dead in the water. Could do ports but they seem oddly averse to that despite a Rare Replay on PC definitely doing seriously well with the popularity of Banjo and Battletoads. I'm still baffled by the fact that Halo 5 is the sole Halo game (of note) not on PC.
>>739522723there's never going to be a golden anything in regards to indie shit
>>739522660Valve is already making games again, that's why Sony and Microsoft got cold feat. Sony lost Japan to Nintendo and Valve, Microsoft lost everything to Nintendo, Sony, and Valve. Problem is, between Sony and Microsoft, only one can recover and the other is in such a shitter that there is no way in hell they can recover next generation. Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond had already saw the writing on the wall for Xbox. Microsoft is just stupid.
>>739513541Leveraging assets and gambling in the stock market is how wealth is created in the West. Products and services don't matter anymore.
>>739515672Its depressing that one day Gabe will die and the very next day Steam will be owned by Microshit. We live in an evil world.
>>739522946>Valve is already making games againdeadlock and uhh
steam aka pc has been relegated to friendslop since covid so this changes nothing
>>739522723Only Sony and Microsoft are leaving Steam, Valve already won, nobody can beat Steam, this is a fact.
Steamcels, what went wrong?
>jezpaid ms shill fishing engagement again.
>>739510938>console games finally getting deported off of my platform Thank God, and stay out
>>739523086we got too cocky
>>739523024Half-Life, Portal, and new IPs we don't know about yet, I think they're rumored to also be working on a new Left 4 Dead game too. Microsoft has nothing worth getting. They leave Steam, PlayStation, or Switch, they're fucked beyond belief.
>>739523086You mean right, we fixed Sony, and Xbox will be dead before 2030. A new golden age is about to begin.
>>739512082
>>739510938We are so back
>>739510938boooooooothey're taking away all those awesome xbox games like-that's terrible!
>>739511712INCEL!
>>739510938Nobody likes Microslop platforms. They've tried and failed too many times.
>>739510938OH NOanyways
>>739512082>elder scrollsNever coming out>falloutWill be shit>doomIn the literal Dark Ages>preyBethesda killed it>wolfensteinCan't remember the last time it was good>dishonoredLMAO>quakeQuake's been dead for how long now?>call of dutyGood riddance>spyroMicrosoft doesn't care about platformers>overwatchcensored LGBT slop>diablowoke slop>tony hawk'sHasn't had a new game in years>minecraft dungeons/legendsWho plays MineCraft?>age of empiresOh no...>haloOnly Halo CE was decent>gears of warOnly Gears 1 was okay, I guess>crash bandicootMicrosoft doesn't care about platformers>fableMale MC walks like a woman and it doesn't even look like FableWhat is Steam missing from Xbox again?
>>739510938I can’t remember the last first party xbox game that I gave a fuck about. Maybe Fable. But after seeing nu fable. No thanks.
>>739511304I can't argue with this.>>739511167>>739510938Don't care.
>>739511167you're clueless as fuck
>>739511891
>>739510938I already have D4 on Steam. I don't give a fuck about anything else Microshit-affiliated.They can leave along with Sony. Garbage companies.
>>739510938The only shit on steam that matters these days is japanese games and indie games. Microsoft, EA, etc. don't matter in the slightest. I've already played/already own anything they made worth playing.
>>739523973Nobody cares tendie
>>739523973Yup, I'm giving Sony one last chance with the State of Play for June, if they show what I think they're going to show, I'm shifting to Nintendo and Valve permanently. Honestly, I may just do that anyway.
>>739510938They should do Games for Windows Live again. That was a great idea. Genius.
>>739510938lol ok
fuck this fat gay retard
>disappeared from retail stores>people still rather just buy on steam than be tard wrangled by game pass sub and use the xbox app especially with the constant price increases>lets get out of steamWhat the fuck is their masterplan for next gen if all this is true?
Microsoft is in a far worse position to pull their games off of any platform. Sony can do this because the Japanese have realized that Jim Ryan was a retard and his Hollywood game and live-service direction was a failure. They're now pivoting back to Japan's gameplay-focused and stylized design. Sony is even returning to the family friendly market while making the Canis the absolute baseline of next generation following Nintendo's model with the Switch 1 and 2, and Valve's strategy with the Steam Deck and eventual Steam Deck (2). Nintendo has a big dick, Valve has a big dick, Sony has a big dick, Microsoft has a small dick. if your dick is the size of a peanut, you don't go swinging it around like it's big. You should sit down, shut up, and kneel to the ones that are bigger and better than you. 80% of devs want to make games for Steam PC, 40% for SteamOS hardware from Valve, 40% PlayStation, 39% for Switch 2, and only a measly 20% for Xbox. How the hell does Microsoft expect to win anything when their first-party games are shit, their games don't sell on their own hardware, Game Pass is declining, their Xbox Store on PC is the least used one, and third parties don't even want to make games for their PC Store or hardware? This problem gets worse with Xbox next gen hardware be it first-party or third-party will be unaffordable.
>>739510938He doesn't say that at all. Are you just this starved for news/drama that you just make things up? Not just in this case, but it's like the video game community just thrives on manufactured drama and speculation to keep themselves going and its been feeling like this for years now.
>>739510938lmao good luck with that
>>739512647PS5 has been redeemed
>>739511085Anything from Bethesda.Anything from Activision.Halo, Gears, Flight Simulator, Fable, and Forza off the top of my head.Technically removing Fallout from Steam would actually help it in the case of 3.
>>739510938lmao im getting that linux gaming pc and kikerosoft cant stop me
>>739526146Why would anyone want any of that??? This game is just twitter now, it's so boring.Also I just scrolled through the catalogue and 1/3 of it is bethesda and square enix threads, and there's not a single thread I'm interested in. No more /v/ today.
>>739526146The last good bethesda game was 2012 (maybe the nuDoom if you're a controller shitter).I don't care about Cod or TH games anymore.Dead franchise, dead franchise, actual shame (we only got the last 3 releases anyway), dead franchise, actual shame.They either undo this after ~5 years/CEO change-out or microsoft finally puts it's gaming division of of it's misery and ends their legacy of running good studios into the fucking ground.
I'm going to redeem this card
>>739526146>Anything from Bethesda.Nothing they make is good anymore>Anything from Activision.Nothing they make is good anymore>Halo, Gears, Flight Simulator, Fable, and Forza off the top of my head.Halo and Gears have both been zombie series longer than they had a decent entry, Flight Sim is boring, Fable died after Microsoft acquired Lionhead, Forza has trannies in it, Fall is an unfinished pile of shit.Microsoft is completely irrelevant and killed Xbox years ago. With Nintendo being back to what they were during the 80s-early 2000s, Sony pivoting back to their Japanese days, and Valve pivoting back into game development to show off their SteamOS powered hardware, there really isn't a reason for Xbox to exist anymore. Xbox's era is a relic, they have no identity, they have no legacy, they have no taste, everything they have is what they stole from actual talent. Xbox won't exist post-2030.
>>739526713>>739526795Point being is that the back catalog would be removed too, not just the stuff present right now.
>>739526795*Fallout
>>739511085>>739511104this is how I felt about Sony. their best games released 20 years ago and idgaf about a single thing they make now
>>739510938thank nintendo for thisall about the power of the brand
>>739526840Doubt, back catalog would stay, just no new releases and no one cares about that. These games aren't locked to GFWL like the last ones were.
>>739511167>wedon't include me with your kind, trash
Mihoyo and Riot show that the monopoly of steam is overstated. If you make a good game people will tolerate your underdeveloped or janky launcher.
>>739526840oh nooooooo we would just pirate it :)
>>739512515These posts always feel like self reports
>>739512082Yeah I'm good with that, thanks for checking bro.
>>739512515>yeah let me just emulate uhhhhhhhh>third person action adventure zelda ripoff #876345We have helldivers, and literally the only other ps game with a shred of originality or fun was control, and it was mostly more of the same.
The monopoly is finit
>>739511712There are female bodhisattva's so I assume these quotes are taken seriously out of context or it's just Buddhist fanfiction like Christianity gets a lot.
>>739510938asha sharmas work for sure.microsoft about to get buttfucked.
>>739511304this i cant remember the last good microsoft game
>>739511167>no longer available anywhere because microshart will get the studio killed within a yearftfy
>>739510938Are they eager to relearn the lessons of the 2000's and early 2010's again when they pulled this shit?
>>739510938After decades they are still trying lmao
>0 mentions of OP using [BREAKING NEWS]NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD NEWFAG BOARD
>>739510938Jez is routinely wrong.
>>739510938>they pull out of steam and try to force the microsoft storeOh boy it's just like the early 2010's when everyone tried to do that and failed!>they pull out of the pc market and try to make everyone go to xboxOh boy it's just like the 2000's when Microsoft forgot they dominated the market share for PC's!
>>739526146I have battle net installed back from sc2 days so not a big issue. ES6 maybe but nothing else besides fable on that list is relevant to me. sony had a better catalog
>>739510938Another jeet decision. Just keep making them Microshit
>ESL Xbox niggers actually think they're getting exclusives backFucking kekThe devastation will be monumental
>>739510938if MS doesn't release on Steam any more that's a loss for MS, not for Valve.also, what games? it's not like Microsoft can even release games any more.
>>739510938Because that worked out great for all the cucks that took Sweeney's money, right?
my nigga gaben is the industry hedgehog.Indians dont comprehend hedgehogs.
>>739526840they can't remove your existing copies, that would be theft. so if removing the back catalog refers to depriving people who have NOT bought MS games on Steam from doing so in the future then that's literally nothing. it makes no difference. the last good game MS released was Gears Tactics in 2020, 6 years ago. and in order to play that game you have to have an MS account and the game will prompt you to sign in every other month. it's already like it's not really on Steam any way.
>>739510938They'll tryThen they'll failThen they'll sue Steam for being a monopoly or some shit
>twatter threadClean it up
>>739510938Thats a shame since I like Halo, Ninja Gaiden and Starfield but it's actually for the best cause Playstation needs proper competition, I lose but it's for the best of player kind
>>739529314does sitting with your legs crossed all day make your pussy sore?
>>739529314Too many people on this website use twitter on the regular, unfortunately. The way people type on twitter over the years makes this especially obvious.
>>739510938Won't be able to play NV or Skyrim again, then.That's unfortunate.
https://x.com/JezCorden/status/2058723071242985610>No I didn'tXbox xissies...no...
>>739512606Why is he walking like a woman lmao?
>>739511167>no longer available on PC90% of PC gamers use Windows.
>>739512265>microsoft will buy valve, probably by the end of the decadePrivate company. They can actually say no to any buyout because they aren't legally bound to unlike public companies.
>>739529283Obviously I don't mean ripping it from your existing library, I meant more for people wanting to buy them in the future. But again, there's cases like FO3 where the Steam version is the worst one you could have, arguably the same for FNV.
>>739512515There is a good PS5 emulator though.It's at https://www.youtube.com/ Saros and Astro Bot are the only games not playable though
it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft wants to go all-in on to that Game Pass. plus their games don't sell well because they're basically AA games with AAA prices.
>>739511167then watch the government rip a new asshole to microslop lmao
>>739518651the law
>>739510938Oh no less woke garbage not worth playing on steam whatever will we do.
>>739510938very organic hate threads against steam. it all makes sense once you realize that steam is the only thing that keeps corporations from putting ads into the games. now think really hard who these posts shitting on steam are.
>>739531481>steam policy says no games allowed on their platform that have ads in them>megacorporations start to get greedy>indians flock to /v/ trying to shit on valve
>>739531121that only prevents them from preventing you from playing games you already purchased
>>739511167well what the fuck am i gonna do about it? these billion dollar companies run the world.
>>739510938Why do Microsoft and Sony now want to return to exclusives?
>>739531860segregation is good
>>739531851*Anti competitive and anti monopoly laws enter chat*
>>739512515Why would I want to play any games that have so few inputs it can be played on a controller? Am I a toddler?
>>739510938I only have Steam because of AOE2 hmmm
>>739528695He was unfortunately right about Sony pulling away from PC, I don't care if he's right with this, Xbox hasn't been relevant for years and their games haven't been worth buying since like ever anyway.
The only loss is a potential CTR port, but that window was long since closed anyway so who even cares?Sony and Microsoft haven't really produced anything with their properties, original or purchased, worthy of note in a decade anyhow. Americans and their politics really fucked everything up.
>>739529414Xbox isn't competition to anyone and Microsoft ruined Halo and Ninja Gaiden, good riddance. Starfield is complete shit. Sony being more interested in Nintendo and Valve is pushing them to return to their PS1/PS2 roots and I'm loving every second of it. Microsoft was always a shit competitor, Nintendo and Valve are the REAL competition that helps the entire industry over Microsoft pulling it down.
>>739511167you're retarded anon, its still going to be available on pc, and if they wont let me purchase it through steam its an automatic pirate or I wont play. I know for a fact that MOST pc gamers are like this and if microsoft needs a reminder then so be it.
>>739518651I most likely already bought those good games.
>>739532030You think anyone is going to enforce that in the current hyper gilded age dystopia we are in? The government is basically the public arm of corporate America now. They aren't letting silly shit like antitrust laws get in the way of profit.
Every PC gamer can be summed up with this. They grovel on the floor for a crumb of Sony and Nintendo exclusives Now that they have none, this is the fate of every PCKEK
>>739531860PCfags spent the entire generation mocking them for not having exclusives.
>>739510938Who gives a fuck? They don’t make games anymore.
>>739532452>>739532612Xbox is a PC now, so that makes Xcucks PCfags now, kek.
Anyone else just don't give a shit about Xbox or PlayStation anymore to the point where you simply don't care if their games are exclusives or not. I looked up what games Sony's studios were working on, and my stomach twisted. I'm just sticking with Switch and Steam going forward. PlayStation and Xbox are dead.
>>739534063Yeah I just hope valve starts making games again
>>739510938MS abandoned their own Windows Shop in Win8 and put their stuff on Steam, I think they wont come back
>>739534123I have hope
>>739534063Nobody with taste cares about anything they work on, Neither xbox nor sony give a shit about quality.
>>739534123They don't have to - it's the best service out there & that's enough :)
>>739534063Sony is obviously only releasing movie-game console garbage so blatantly nobody is going to care about them being gone.I don't even know what Microsoft has been doing on Steam so I really don't see myself giving a fuck about them leaving it.
>>739534123I don't care for their games either
>>739534123Then you should hope the state of New York wins their lawsuit which will more or less ban the selling of skins/cosmetics from lootboxes in CS2, DOTA2 and TF2. Valve's F2P model would be rendered gambling.
>>739534158Win8 shop also made Vave start caring about Linux.
>>739534250/v/ loves their games like starfield though
>>739511712>women are all passionate sex-beasts who just want to be bred and have children>this is... le badBuddhism ruined so many countries, it's unreal
>>739513541jeets, unironicallythe Brahman/izzat mindset leads to so much retardation, it's not even funny
>shill thread>ctrl+f>"literally">18 examples
>>739510938Not the biggest fan of MS, but are they going to release on Xbox and PS? I think I’ve bought like one of their published games in the past four years so it’s not the biggest loss for me, but this sounds like they’re doing a launcher
>>739534123Deadlock
>>739535882Mamma mia
>>739510938
Then I just stop playing Microsoft games or simply pirate them.I don't particularly like Steam, but they're leagues better than the competition. And more importantly, they're more convenient than anything else. I don't want to have 10 different launchers and 300 different kinds of DRM installed on my PC. I use steam and I pirate anything with an annoying secondary launch system or DRM or I simply don't play it at all. I'm not starved for things to do that I'd bother downloading some gay Microsoft launcher or some other bullshit.
>>739510938>what if Microsoft did something that would cause them to lose moneyThey've been bleeding money on the Xbox since it's conception; so nothing really changes does it.
>>739526146i uh don't play any of the games from those devsliterally not onei want to be smug about it but maybe i'm the one with the issue
>>739513081Don't you hurt yourself when you're walking "manly" then?
>>739511167And who in they right mind would sell it to microslop? next to EA, they've killed too many studios that decided to work with them.
>>739512515>"The PS5 is like an empty plastic case with no games." - Sony CEO
>>739511550 hereIm trans btw
I already own their Age of... games on Steam. They're decent enough, I don't love them as much as others do.I would play Forza Horizon if those games didn't force me to listen to influencer vegans.I don't play HaloI really do not care if Microsoft leaves Steam. I mean it's POSSIBLE that they will one day make Age of Mythology 2 and it's a 10/10, but I sincerely doubt it will come to pass.
>>739510938i unironically just wanted pic related and halo wars from them so i really don't care if they jump ship now.
>>739534873No, just the Xbox PC store, no other platform.
You fags are always talking about why microsoft doesn't just buy Valve n shiet and i want to believe that you guys are just shitposting and not that clueless, Valve could outright buy MS if they felt like doing so and recover the money in a couple of steam sales.
Soon the only games left on Steam will be chinkslop gachas and pixel art indie games about depression and coming out as trans.
>>739510938Lets research what made microsoft sell on steam in the first place.
>>739526146And absolutely nothing of value was lost.
>>739510938pajeets fear the gaben
>>739513230Cow a doodyDoomwhatever bethesda shits out next
>>739536514well it mostly shows games according to the user preferences and since you only see that kind of games.....got something to share with the class anon?
>>739513243>The doom reboots suck cockNo.
>>739512265>desu bethesda is doing ok under msThis bait made me chuckle
>>739536514GDC revealed that most developers want to release games on Steam and no developer wants to release games on Xbox, so it will be Xbox that will be left with nothing, literally.
Industry shills bloodthirsty for Gabe's company to go public, they will attack it from any angle. They go after payment processors because he didn't censor porn games. They go after popular male demographic IPs because Stellar Blade launching on Steam allowed ShiftUp to abandon Sony. They fear that their exclusive titles do 6x better on Steam. Sony used Helldivers 2 to leave a negative mark against Steam when they have to revoke access to the game due to PSN registration, something they greenlit before launch and changed after people purchased it.Gabe is the last bastion of the West.
>>739530049the player character only has female animations.
>>739511085fpbp
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>>739512515I can watch movies without a ps5 emulator.
>>739522903>I'm still baffled by the fact that Halo 5 is the sole Halo game (of note) not on PC.Technically there is a port (5: Multiplayer which was the Forge mode, really), so porting it is just moving the single-player code over and calling it a day (well, adding the multiplayer maps, but let's be honest nobody is play 5's multi). but MS won't ever do it.
>>739536794Their main target seems to be both Valve and Nintendo because they can't get to them and both can simply tell those people to fuck off. Nintendo protects the East as Valve protects the West. Sony and Microsoft both fell. These bastards just can't accept that they lost. Third parties are now in the hands of Nintendo and Valve.
>>739534845sir, this is literally the shill website
>>739511167Microsoft cant buy a Japanese franchise without spending 20x the price it is worth because they insulted them decades ago. Lol I am laughing.
i don't even care at this point but it would be so funny to see steam cultists seethe
>>739512515>Pc bitch niggas say this while having several search tabs open for ps5 emulator status and shit lmfaoThe snoyim have gone insane
>>739512082How good would it be to remove COD from the FPS eco system. More players in other better games. Honestly though COD and Battlefield have lost their audience to milsims and Valorant / Marvels / CSGO respectively on top of extraction shooters.Battlefield needed to focus on BIG battlefields and they fucked up, way more other games with more interesting competition. If I wanted a fast pace closer game there is the dead game The Finals and other smaller type arena shooters. COD is trash and people become old enough to try other shit that gives a better vibe like Insurgency for gun and sound play, but eventually other mil light sims
>>739512265Never stop embaressing yourselves Microdicks. The same BS you have been saying for 3 decades now. It will never happen because that means they will fire their entire games division and execs to bring in the competitor who have been doing it better.
>>739526146hahahaha who gives a fuck
>>739510938>Doom the dark ages>Forza 6 with 5 car wide Japanese roads and $240 expected lifetime cost according to ai>Starfield>Can't even think of other things Uhh I'm good I'll be playing road to empress part 2
>>739537158The final nail in the coffin for consoles will be GTA6. PC was always going to be the best way to play it but they were betting on the game to be great to sell a whole bunch of consoles.It is going to be streamed. It is going to be criticised as a hot mess that needs better performance. The story will be a failure. People will opt out and wait until PC because theybare that patient due to the shitty economy. Imagine Rockstar bleeding money because no sales on consoles. Sony and Microsoft are going to get the flack. Switch 2 avoids this contraversary. We will inly have Ninyltendo and PC 5 years from. now because of the 2 billion dollar back lash.Imagine if they bring Valve in to save the day and give away IP rights to their tech in exchange for fixing GTA6.
>>739511167I will wait with bated breath for the day that I see Microsoft get into the eroge industry.
>>739511167>>microsoft buys your favorite franchiseThere is literally nothing left for them to buy. My favorite devs are all tiny indies.
>>739510938>Famed insiderYeah, okay Jez.
>>739511085fpbp. Same exact thing gets asked regarding Sony claiming they won't release on Steam and their is never an answer for what games are being lost.
>>739537659It will once the jeets take over Microsoft. THAT is the only thing happening right now under Americans noses
>>739512082WOW! FABLE!
>>739510938Remind me why their consoles are dead again?
>>739512082It's been 10 years since either of those franchises released a decent game.
>>739511104Ironically, what should have been a big deal, Halo 3 and Reach finally showing up on PC died because microcock tried to tie everything into the Xbox Live ecosystem.And they never bothered to release some shit like, the 360 version of Banjo Kazooie.There is practically speaking no loss.Like I can only think maybe some fags playing AoE II still will be slightly inconvenienced.
>>739512295After he gets stabbed and thrown into a wall he got CTE, so yes.
>>739513541Growth is over. The only option left is clawing out margins.
TAKE AWAY WHAT GAMES NIGGA? YOU OWN ALL THESE FRANCHISES BUT WHERE ARE THE GAMES. GET REAL
>>739512082I only have Minecraft (not on steam) and Skyrim.
>>739511167>SoD3 is going to kill itself with trying on Timmy's store for a second timeWew
>>739513541I know a lot of people don't want to hear it, but I think the writing is on the wall that basically the whole tech industry serves zero purpose.Google is basically unusable as a search engineMicrosoft has a terrible dogshit operating system (has been since Vista, but it was at least tolerable) and can't really force you into their ecosystem anymore.Nvidia can't bank on driver faggotry because windows is currently eating shit, and consumer real time graphics basically peaked two generations of graphics card ago (this being especially bad since Nvidia is the entry point for a bunch of circular government subsidies to keep all this shit alive)And unfortunately, none of them are really taking it well and seem to be trying to cause as much damage as possible on their way out.
>>739537654Yup, GTA6 will be the game that crashes the AAA industry and indies, A, and AA studios will rise from its ashes, PlayStation and Xbox are going to take a big hit, while Nintendo and Valve will come out of this being bigger than ever all because of their 80s/90s mindset. It doesn't matter if Sony and Microsoft copy Nintendo and Valve when they simply don't understand how or why they won.
>>739510938oh no we wont get uhhhh... forza? the next forza in like 2037?
>>739513541>even nationstates aren't exempt from going full retard with this current trajectoryOne would assume that it's almost intentional with how widespread the phenomena is. Doesn't help you have portions of the populace dropping out rather than playing the game to the end.
>>739538310What about those AI gods they are trying to conjure up between poisoning the water table and relying on meme energy initiatives?
>>739513541They figured out they can absolutely fuck everyone over for more money short term.I wonder if there is an actual breaking point for the general population. And what will happen when that point is found.
>>739539515They ran out of data to steal like 3 years ago.The investors don't know that.That's why they're actually entertaining the retarded idea of "nobody actually owns a computer and you just subscribe to one" that dumb people think they're actually planning for.
>>739511167CTR still has no PC port. WHO CARES.
I have the Xbox app on my PC which already makes this move pointless to me, but the only thing I use it for nowadays is whenever I get the urge to replay Phantom Dust.Also used it for Killer Instinct, but that game is pretty dead these days.Admittedly, it was neat to have back when I had gaypass for a couple years before MS removed that Gold to GP Ultimate exploit.
>>739526146By the time Bethesda releases a new game Microsoft will be back on Steam
>>739511167 Nah Microsoft have been hinting for 10+ years that they want to eventually move Windows to a monthly subscription service. If you dont pay you cant use non-Microsoft .exes.
>>739526146>Halo, GearsLolLmao evenThey have about as much relevancy today as Snoy dropping Killzone, MAG and Resistance tomorrow. 343 made damn sure to fuck that series into the ground and no one ever cared about the screaming spic and her antics.
>>739539912>microsoft announces windows has lost 95% of it's marketshare in 4 minutes
>>739539912Their actual idea was claiming a tax on literally ALL software on windows, and ONLY microsoft approved software being on windows.This is the shit they were notorious about threatening Valve with back when Windows 8 came out.
>>739511304trvke
Hasn't literally everyone tried this? Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard Rockstar and so on have tried to take their games and made their own Steam with blackjack and hookers. The only difference is that that this is Microsoft's second (third?) attempt.Say what you want about Sony leaving PC but at least this is their first attempt to do so.If services like GOG, which genuinely provide a better service than Steam, can't rival it, what chance does a smaller walled garden with less features, fewer games, no friends and the same problems Steam has somehow achieve?Despite what Tim is saying the Epic Store is not thriving.
>>739539912>Microslop has been hinting at wanting to kill itself for the last 10+ yearsBy all means go ahead. If you're lucky Mr Fink or the state will spot you for going full retard on that WEF mandate. Rentseeking the world into an early grave is a great way to improve the bottom line.
>>739510938First time?
>>739523247There are too many games that still use this pos software. GfWL and its consequences have been a disaster for pc gaming.
>>739540165>If services like GOG, which genuinely provide a better service than SteamGOG has way worse service than steam. Their gimmick shit is pretending they aren't licensing software to you because they send you installers.
>>739530280Can you not simply refuse a buyout if your public?
>>739512568Don't those need a microsoft account to play?They warn you about that in the steam page but I'm not sure if it's only for the online portion or for the single player as well. So because of that I haven't bought them.
>>739540575They may have admitted defeat at one point, but I wouldn't bother buying them at this point.
>>739538310That can be applied to most major corporate spheres. Years of cutting corners and focusing on personal growth tend to create an illusion that it can be done infinitely, untill they realize that there are no corners left to cut and no free space to grow into, at which point they are too bloated to even sustain themselves. Unfortunately in modern realities they still can keep chugging along thanks to investor money and gov safety nets and whatnot, but at that point the primary focus of the company is number manipulations and financial magic to keep itself alive, it can't afford to concern itself with the main product even if it wanted. It is sort of like a mortally wounded organism on life support, it can neither properly recover nor be allowed to expire because there are still people with personal interest in it.
>>739531851>that only prevents them from preventing you from playing games you already purchasedI already own the games i want to play, so who cares?Don't get me wrong, i aint saying that it is good that they are pulling out, but also nothing of value will be lost, m$ is not capable of producing good game.
there is legitimately not a single thing from any of the companies that MS bought that i am interested in anymore. blizzard has been dead for me for over a decade at this point
>>739540421As you prove 99% of gamers don'r understand what GOG does. GOG's gimmick, if you want to call it's objectively superior service that, is:>it doesn't matter what happens to your PC or to you or to us or to our policies or to our CEO or to the EULAs or our owning group or to the political situation or to Iran's foreign affairs minister, every game you have bought and downloaded cannot be deactivated or removed by us and we can't stop you from keeping those files forever or sharing them with friends and family and we don't want toSteam can enshitify tomorrow and you will have no control ovet that. GOG can be deleted ant atomized from existence tomorrow and I'll have my games forever.
>>739511709>own an xboxwhy?
>>739511853Sexo
>>739516871>Worst experience I've ever had with a store.Ive tried it once because goypass and holy hell, what a fucking disgrace even for pajeet standards.Ive reinstalled entire system the moment ive noticed it doesnt stay in its containment folders.I rather quit gaming that touch that shit ever again.
>>739511974>GFWL didn't ever have many download exclusives and every major release using it was released...lost planet 2 sends it's regards
>>739531851>>739540732kind of a naive outlook isnt it? the best game ever you already read about and played? where's your whimsy
>>739540664Kinda this. Most organic corporate gorwth has stopped actual decades ago. The reason shit like 'disruption' is on the corporate agenda is simply them hoping to accidentally trip over something investors might like.The smart companies, the ACTUAL, smart companies have long since stsrted battening down the hatches focusing on their core customers and stayed in their place.Inorganic, forced, growth will be the death of western economy.
>>739540972>where's your whimsynot at Microsoft
>>739512350>loses moneyRoblox has no path to profit. They have the most users this is where you make money you WON you own the market but they only lose money.Embarrassing.
>>739540506Nope. As a public company your shares can be bought by any member of the public as long as the current owner is willing to sell. Microsoft does not own itself.
>>739516871I had "free" goypass ultimate for a year through my phone provider. There was multiple times where an update would just somehow shit itself and have to redownload the entire fucking game.
>>739541225Jesus thats retarded
>>739541881Oh totally.
>>739510938sars... our google gift cards...
>Microsoft is being retarded>a jeet is behind itfucking pottery kek
