the image sums it up pretty well, Valve didn't even have the decency of announcing the 50% price hikes while the Steamdeck was out of stock for months ...why are they not being dragged through the mud for being such incompetent greedy fucks?if this is what it means to be a "PC gamer" nowadays, maybe we do in fact deserve to be treated as cattle as a group because God fucking damnit you're a bunch of ball massaging corporate bootlickers
You don't even play video games.
I simply hate valve / steam because they act like they're the representatives of PC gamingPC will always be a piratechad platform
>>740232964I have never seen a poster on /v/ cry about Sony prices.
>>740232964>PC gaming>talks about a console??
browns who took the pcmr meme seriously and thought they finally could belong to a higher caste by spending $3000 to play cs2
But I'm a PC user and didn't buy any of the consoles the picture is referring to.
>>740233116not anymore it seems, become part of the Valve cult OR ELSE
Top raised prices do to tariffs, then never removed the prices after they were gone. Bottom raised due to ram issues and announced it publicly stating they didn't have a large enough manufacturer and were looking for offers if anyone had one. Top raised priced a second time after ram prices went up and plan to againn in some cases soon. You're genuinely retarded.
source of the tweet the image is from https://x.com/psy_tempest/status/2060799216172015678
>>740233253>his janny application got rejectedLMAO
>>740232964>ram and storage prices soar around the world>game consoles all increase in price substantially>Steam holds out longer, eventually also increases price because they have to>HURR THEY'RE SO INCOMPETENT You're about 14 years old, aren't you?
>>740233242the tariffs never left brother
>>740233253>it's just another twitterniggeri swear like 80% of the shit on /v/ is just someone copy pasting shit from twitter
>>740232964This is a logical take though. "I do not trust these corporations for their previously demonstrated profit seeking behaviors" "This corporation has not shown equivalent profit seeking behaviors, therefore its concerns must be valid"Acting like this is a double standard is a willful misrepresentation and itself a double standard.
>>740233384Except corpos like nintendo are being sued for getting a tariff refund despite passing the cost down to the players.
>>740232964Gaben requires another yacht. Please understand
>raised our prices by over 40%of what? steam doesn't own my pc
>>740233550That's never going to actually go anywhere
Well yeah. Anybody who spends like 1,500-2,000 to play the same games they can play on a console for 400 is a subhuman consoomer sycophant
>>740233703you are brown
>>740233148I've never seen one cry about Nintendo prices either. In both cases it's just people being like "lmao you gotta pay more than us". Either way, I don't think people who have a monthly subscription to gaming are all that price sensitive. Otherwise they'd be upset about that part first and foremost.
>>740233832no but clearly you're a jew
i think my lcd steam DICK is pretty good… for the price it was 3 years ago. fuck off gabe you fat fuck. guess i’ll be back to a cheapo laptop if i want “portable gaming” when this thing dies and you dont cover repairs anymore, which i assume will soon either stop entirely or be stupid expensive to do too. eat shit and die!!
>>740233253>it's just some nintendoddler whose entire twitter feed is crying about sony, PC and trumpkek
>>740233703You're incapable of having a discussion. All you can do is seethe piss, and cry about things you hate because you're some sub70 iq animal who somehow found their way to this website.
>>740233663
>>740233253geg, this is OPs twitter btw
>>740232964First of all, nobody was accusing the console creators of "just being greedy", everyone knows the AI shit going on right now is absorbing the supermajority of the world's computing hardware.Secondly, Valve isn't a hardware company. It's not even second or third on the list.
>>740232964PCniggers just have shit taste
>>740233253>It was a tendieEvery time, the Jews of the gaming world
Unfortunately pc virgins overrun all online places since they're perpetually at their "battlestation" as cringe and infantile of a term as that isYou can't really discuss gaming without them chiming in to tell you about how superior their platform is even though they don't actually use it for gaming, just to horde steam rentals and roms that they'll never play
>>740234849Between your hate for PC, your emphasis on Steam games being "rentals" even though every digital game and most physical games on console being in the same boat, and your weird choice to claim people don't actually play ROMs on emulators, I judge thee a nutendo shill.
>>740234129do you mean the game prices are higher on steam or..?
>>740234849just say you can't afford a pc
>you can't afford a PCabsolutely nobody with disposable income for a "battlestation" is being logical about Valve's greed, it's only the poors that saved up their entire life savings to buy a GPU that desperately defend the megayatch company
>>740234129Don't leave them alone. Remind everyone that they perfected the lootbox cancer and that they are just as bad as Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and all of the other companies. Companies are not your friends and never will be.
>>740233518>it's okay because valve is my friendbiggest fanboys in gaming, no one else comes close
FUCK VALVE
>>740235393>valve's greedThey're just breaking even on the tiny amount of hardware they were already manufacturing in a world where manufacturing hardware has suddenly gotten wildly more expensive. The console companies needed to do less to stay afloat because manufacturing is much less expensive for a company that's been doing it for 40 fucking years.
>>740235634>the company that isn't publicly traded is just as bad as the ones that are!lmao noShareholders are responsible for 50% plus of the dogshit decisions I hate those other companies for and Steam doesn't have them.
>>740233116Valve is the reason why you're still having games come to pc shitskin mutt
>>740235951Valve tried to introduce paid mods to the workshop. Valve profits from retarded amounts of gambling and artificial scarcity which every company since then has tried to copy. Valve sat around doing fuck all while bots were ravaging Team Fortress 2 for years. They are just as bad as the others, only they have a better PR team and ways to sway the public.
>>740235712FUCK AQUA
>>740236694>Valve tried to introduce paid mods to the workshop.and they were rightmods became locked behind patreon and similar sites anyway
>>740234373Looks good to me
>>740237067It looks like a Nintendo shill to me, so I think you're also a Nintendo shill.
>>740232964nope i can clown on valve 4 doing stupid shit and be like ok cool when they do good shitproton was goodthat price bad
>>740232964name 1 game that isnt from older consoles i couldnt play at least 1080p 60 fps with a gtx 1070 1st gen ryzen 1700 pc a ps5 and buying some pc handheld or laptop to replace my switch?
it's not the same. you don't need to buy steam deck to use steam
>>740235634yeah except they also did shit like proton and win 8 steam still works so not your friend necessarily but not as bad we will see tho if they steal ppls games
>>740235634nah, that would be sports games, they were dedicated lootbox simulators before those even existed
I don't see steamies defending the price increase though?
steamies are the vegans of gaming
>>740238691>>740238886The term "steamie" isn't real. It's only used by shills.
>>740239093Ok valve drone
>>740232964>Posts a reddit imageGo back.
>>740240195reddit would never be critical of valve
>>740240459You have to go back
>>740232964Good morning sir.
>>740240525You have to think of a new comeback
>>740240632I'm not the same person you replied to, there's a website with user names you can go to though!
>>740232964Steamies are in a cult. They go out of their way to routinely pay more for games so they can use the steam launcher
>>740240952lmao you niggers have to make shit up about random hypothetical "steamies" to have a leg to stand onnutendo faggots and snoy shills begone
>>740241021>lmao you niggers have to make shit up about random hypotheticalIts not made up retard, they say it themselves. Offer them a free game and they won't take it and would rather pay valve for it
PC gamers, especially millennial aged ones have been getting humiliated for years and years with the decline and death of PC gaming back then when everything was migrating to the Xbox and PC was literally just mmos and counter strike. Valve and Steam gave them an identity That made them into the most brand loyal group in gaming. They will unquestionably love Valve to the very end.
>>740233242>>740233367>>740233663>>740234450
>>740232964>enormous console markets with a huge captive audience increase hardware prices>niche pc-adjacent console that literally nobody I know owns increase hardware pricesah yes, exactly the same thing
>>740241248The problem there wasn't that they wanted to spend more money on valve but that the "free" option was Epic.
>>740241248>please accept our bribes to play only the shittiest/old af games for free on our platform, so that we can eventually lock you into our maximum profit extraction modelno thanks, i'll pass
>>740242257>but that the "free" option was Epic.How does that stop you from playing the game>BUT EPIC ARE DA ENEMY OF MY CULT, I CANT USE THE DEVIL OF MY RELIGION
>>740242350You described steam lmao
>>740242426I don't want to sign up for a service that is bad.>BUT WHY IS EPIC A BAD SERVICELmao? lol? How long did it take them to add a fucking cart to their store?
>>740242504He described Epic. Steam already has a gigantic userbase and still has yet to switch to maximum profit extraction mode.
>>740232964Yes, when Sony went to PC they started making Concord and other wokeslop instantly. Every glazed "indie" game is also troonslop.
>>740242504steam's revenue model has hardly changed at all since I first started using almost 20 years ago. its transparent, predictable and user friendly. It has made no malicious attempt to monopolise the market. There are no 'steam exclusive' games of note. Epic has, in its short lifetime, already been fined over half a billion for illegally selling data and for deceptive billing practices. It forces users to download their shite platform to access a plethora of big ticket games that they didn't even develop.You're a penny pinching smoothbrain who just wants some free slop, don't try to rationalise your poverty and retardation by smearing steam.
>>740242724How does a cart prevent you from playing the free game? You can play the game free start to finish but you choose to pay cause they dont have a shopping cart lmao
>>740242887>>740243562Steam was created to stop resell of half life 2, its shit on that alone. Youre just a retard that got fucked in the ass so long you think its normal and you never played PC before steam cause you weren't born
>>740243578I choose not to add to Epic's total active user count because it may embolden them to believe their incomplete, shitty platform is at all good enough to compete with Steam. Simple as.
>>740232964The thing with steam deck and steam whatever is that you likely already have a computer to play games on. There is no "Well you don't own this thing so you don't get to play games" so I see why one is angry and the other isnt. I'm not buying a steam machine, waste of money
>>740244750lol yeah bro they have all the data but for some reason a billion dollar company will think active users are sonehow the only metric that will help them somehow
>>740243562>valve and steam>transparent>user friendly>no exclusives>no malicious attempts>no monopoly
>>740232964What's the point of preemptively announcing a price hike when valve didn't have them in stock anyway?
>>740232964The biggest difference is that generally speaking you don't "need" to buy Valve's products, you only buy them if you want them. Do you think the Steam Deck is too expensive? You can buy another brand if they can do better, and you have access to the same games and all your Steam library.
>>740232964Steamies are cucks
>>740232964I’ve come to the conclusion that most people who brag about having a PC are 3rd worlders with laughably outdated hardware that was already considered mid when it came out
>>740243708PC was unironically a thousand times worse before Steam. It was a showcase for some of the most cancerous DRM imaginable, missed out on tons of games and was nowhere remotely near as convenient.
>>740245768PC was doing just fine considering classics predate Steam monopoly
>>740245818It wasn't, considering consoles were crushing it for gaming up until around 2015.
>>740245947wow, thanks steam for warcraft3, starcraft, diablo, legacy of kain, deus ex, aliens vs predator oh wait
>>740246037Your argument has nothing to do with refuting any of mine.
>>740246185We were getting PC only kino after kino which strangely stopped right around steam's rise to power. There goes your steam saved pc gaming/it was worse before propaganda
Nintendo makes more money off of Pokemon alone than Valve has made in the past 30 years. I don't think Nintendo has any valid excuse to raise prices in any scenario. If anything they should be constantly lowering their prices. Pokemon alone could subsidize every single game and console they ever make. They could sell their flagship franchises for 10 bucks, and would still make insane profit.What are they wasting money on that requires constant price hikes?
>>740246339An AI that detects if you're trying to jerk off while you're being TikTok filtered into one of the Star Fox characters, for one.
>>740233116This. Fuck Valve.
>>740246339>steamie defending valve hikes and deflecting to Nintendo lol
>>740232964I can build my own PC from third-party components to play PC games. I can't build my own Switch 2 to play Switch 2 games.
>>740246323That's some bizarre nonsense.
>>740246339Unlike Valve owners, Nintendo don't spend their money on megayacths but on retail toys and succesful expensive movies instead ...which means they keep re-investing money into the entertainment economy rather than self funding AI brain chips and hooker parties with billionaires
>>740247598I'm asking why I should be upset at Valve raising the price on a piece of hardware that isn't even required to play their games, while Nintendo continually raises the price on their hardware for no reason, and no benefit.
>>740247659okay drone
>>740247841>Unlike Valve owners, Nintendo don't spend their money on megayacths but on retail toys and succesful expensive movies instead ...which means they keep re-investing money into the entertainment economyBut where are those investments going? All it results in is worse hardware, shitty online features, higher prices, and abysmal exclusives. Look at the Switch 2 edition of Breath of the Wild. IIRC even though you're paying for the upgrade, they don't even have the courtesy of including the season pass, which they shouldn't have charged for in the first place. Don't even get me started on pokemon having DLC, when they already cut the content in half and sell it across two titles.
>>740233116The only real gaming on PC is boycotting the new consoles by emulating old console kino, the cut-off point for that being PS4/Switch1.PC's indigenous games/fans have set some of the worst fucking trends and were genuinely monkey paw wishing for Concord last gen.
>>740247849>bro who cares product price went up, just like make your own handheld!!!!!!Why are steamies like this
>>740248359Yes. I can put all my games on any other handheld, since as a PC chad, I'm not even bound to steam. Sorry I don't have a hateboner for Gabe like you, nor do I worship them like you strawman me out to do.
>>740242257Pure cultist behavior, you would rather hurt yourself than hurt Valve, you're okay you having less as long as Valve has more, you must be a Republican.
>>740248467>Sorry I don't have a hateboner for Gabe like youYeah you got a love boner cultist, you cry about prices of Nintendo despite being cheaper than all PC handheld options
>>740248989Because Nintendo's handheld is locked down, proprietary bullshit? I'd rather import a chinese handheld.
>>740248989Nintendo's handheld, and consoles in general, are worthless compared to PC.
>>740232964you are calling others subhuman while posting wojak cancernot even going to rest the rest of your post
>>740245451sorry but the narrative is that they sold out after the price increaseget out of here with your facts
>>740248053> Number 3: Henry Nowak
>>740232964Yes. Redditors have ruined everything.Why do you think I call Old School RuneScape, Old School RedditScape?Stupid fucking millennials have ruined everything.
>>740233853nice admitting you weren't on this website for any more than a few months. everyone rightfully shit on the switch price point.
>>740232964Yes. Garbage movie games with baby puzzles like fag life 2 are put on a pedestal by redditors who moved from consoles to pc in the 2010s.
>>740232964>PC gaming = Steam
>>740250294More like third world behavior and PCMR builds with GTX 460 + Reddit + /v/ = PC Vegan. Hope your PC parts don't fall apart soon, pretty expensive for your PC market.
>>740232964I already have a Deck and I don't care that you're upset you can no longer buy one for as little as I paid.
>>740251001Name a single non-shit game that requires better hardware. Protip: you can't.
>>740251001Why is /v/ full of anti-piracy pro-Valve redditors these days?When did this shit happen?
>>740251157gen-z cant into piracy
>>740251157Millenials took over the internet forums and there hasn't been a more corporate bootlicker troon supporter generation like them since boomers
>>740251157>>740251231>>740251360Both are true
>>740251157piracy killed big budget PC exclusives
>>740232964I'm also mad because they fucked CS2's economy beyond repair and now my investments are worthless.
>>740232964When you get most of your games for free, the sins of some unimportant company seem immaterial.
>>740251645Based. I'll take indie kino over AAA trannies anyday.
>>740251771>indie tranny calling others tranny>posts biggest trans indie sloplol
>>740251862Cope+seethe+filtered
The world is thus to me:Does it affect everyone else? I don't care.Does it affect me personally? I'll shitpost and care about it.I was never going to get a gabecube or 'eck since I already have a good system so I don't care.I'm getting a switch 2 for a nephew so I care.
>>740252140Based, I'm only buying a Switch 2 but to have an excuse to bring geeky hoes home
>>740232964You're just poor, get over it
>>740251747>my investmentsSome of you are unreal
>>740232964any sort of company dicksucking is cuck behaviorbeauty of PC gaming is you have endless choicechoice of OSchoice of multiple store and keyshops and PIRATECHADINGchoice to use ANY peripherals etcetc
>>740250294BASEDevery cent spent on supporting gaben's yachts is money not spent on beer and meat
>>740253261this man just like jaffe knew how to make kino dude bro game for high T chads
>>740256569>this man just like jaffe knew how to make kino dude bro game for high T chads
>>740249543>"competition matters, platform differentiation matters">"I don't think it does, mate">*game industry dies on the floor*
>>740232964Valve is pricing us out of gaming?Nigger ive bought so many AAA titles for less than ten dollarsIf you cant afford steam you are poor.
>>740233116For me it was DOShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQVxPuDAcVk
>>740232964No one's defending Valve on this oneI love my deck but don't get one at that price
>>740260073>no oneNot true
>>740256569>jaffeYeah bro nothing more high-T than being an employee of Keemstar on LOLCOW Live.
>>740260442>being an employee of Keemstar on LOLCOW Liveyou can do that in god of war?
>>740233367If Valve were smart they'd take a goddamn loss for once. We are struggling with food and gas, and billionaires are ripping us off at every street corner. The least these game companies can do is drop prices on their decade old hardware instead of trying to eke out profits from people who have no money. This is simply greed, and it's greed that's understandable from Sony or Nintendo, they have millions upon millions of religious cultists with 0 IQ willing to buy their slop every day. PC is different, we're smarter, more clever, we pirate when they pull shit like this, we could run a Youtube campaign that could ruin them, and we have, so they should be treating us better.
>>740260758Apparently yes if you are a designer of underworld level in GoW1 Daid Jaffe, Boogie's and Wings' colleague.
>>740261162>We are struggling with food and gasYou are not, fatso.
>>740247841>Nintendo spends money on toys, meanwhile Gaben has sex with high class prostitutes on his yacht.Yeah makes sense, Nintentards do the same thing.
>>740233253Thanks. OP is a faggot.
>>740232964Shadow-dropping the price-hike for the Deck is pretty much the only shitty thing they've done recently and even then it's not that big of a deal since Steam is also available on almost every single fucking modern computer that isn't the Deck.Maybe when Valve starts enforcing shit like paid online is when I'll start lumping them in with the console assholes
