>>740286071
You're free to buy anything anywhere, nobody is forcing steam on you. The thing is, it's most likely that Steam will stick around and you'll keep your purchases unlike other horrid pieces of bloatware like Origin or Uplay. People buying games on the fortnite launcher are retarded though. Its like buying stuff on Discord

>>740286158
>nobody is forcing steam on you.

You know damn well that in terms of digital sales STEAM is practically the only option. GOG and Epic game store are irrelevant, really.

>>740286282
And why is that? Whats stopping you from buying stuff there? You people don't even know what a monopoly is. Steam is the biggest player in the market but it hasn't bought out the competition and started serving Steam with a differently colored logo and slightly different prices to pretend its not it.

>>740286071
Stop fucking over japanese store fronts like Dlsite and Fanza. They have a niche called not being hostile to japanese games.
>>740286282
There are literally games sold on Steam that are region locked on japanese store fronts because of payment processor fuckery.

>>740286348
>but it hasn't bought out the competition

It didn't had to, because there was no competition to speak of ): Physical game sales are practically dead. So now we are all forced to only ''rent'' not BUY our games digitally.

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>>740286282
>d-doesn't count

>>740286537
This shit was being forced even before digital only games. You were being forced to get online for whatever reason and the game stopped working if not doing so even if you had it on disk. Companies really hate it when you keep playing your good old games because if its convenient to do that and it doesn't break and make you jump through hoops or become nigh impossible, then you won't buy their new turd

>>740286071
steam is shit. however, chinkpig, actijewzard, microkike, crapple, chinkcent, ubijew, ea, etc. are much, much worse

>>740286537
>because there was no competition to speak of ):
He did mention Epic Games and GoG, the other 2 big players there.
>Physical game sales are practically dead.
You people like to attribute all the faults on Valve while conveniently forgetting about absolute bullshits like SecuROM was already happening.
The PC market was dying a slow and painful death before Valve.
>now we are all forced to only ''rent'' not BUY our games digitally.
With Gog you practically get your copy of the game, offline, forever.

>>740286745
>Gog you practically get your copy of the game, offline, forever.
You're right about everything but faggots like the OP will keep ignoring this fact because they want another steam where they can show off trophies and their gay profiles, basically another steam but all the other "steams" suck balls so they blame the only good one for being a monopoly as if its their responsibility to improve their competitors

>>740286071
You don't stop steam. Steam are on top because they are pro-consumer. They don't lock you into steam, they don't force steam only exclusives, they allow users to give reviews on a game they buy, they have a decent refund policy and above all else every step they take isn't for the companies and billionaires, it's for the consumer first and foremost.

The recent string of suits against them is because they refuse to bend the knee to retarded demands from retarded companies. Anyone else notice all these lawsuits came right after they beat that Rothschild in court too? How very suspicious.

>>740286925
>they want another steam where they can show off trophies and their gay profiles
if OP want's to be a petulant faggot GoG even has a launcher where there are achievements.
The fact that it's optional it's a bonus, imho.

>>740287010
Again, I agree but I bet he says there no "real option" and that other stores are "irrelevant" because there's not a lot of people there to give attention to his gay profile. Basically the complaints and these threads come from the fact that people dont care about PLAYING video games, they want to SHOW their video games and post faggotry on the internet for attention whorring

>>740287125
> I bet he says there no "real option" and that other stores are "irrelevant"

I say that because it's a fucking fact. Steam runs a practical monopoly on video game sales in 2026. Walmart fucking discontinued selling physical media in 2024. Thats 2 years.

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>>740287125
>Again, I agree
I am not accustomed to this sentence being said here, anon. Apologize if it seemed I ever came at you wrongly.

>>740286071
if you want to take down steam, compete with steam. Equivalent features, huge library

>>740287354
>I say that because it's a fucking fact.
Not Steams fault.
>Steam runs a practical monopoly on video game sales in 2026.
Again, not their fault that the CONSUMER CHOSE THEM
>Walmart fucking discontinued selling physical media in 2024
So go blame the streaming platforms. Go blame consolefags. Why are you laying this only at the feet of valve who were ALWAYS a digital marketplace. They didn't make anyone else give up on physical media, everyone else chose to do that on their own.

You're such an insufferable buffoon.

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>>740287361
based Anon

>>740287452
>if you want to take down steam, compete with steam

>''If you want to take down the government, make your own government!'' Tier-argument.
>>740287458
You are enabling this state of affairs, whether you like it or not

>>740286071
Make a better alternative.

>>740287638
>You are enabling this state of affairs, whether you like it or not
I'm actively advocating people use steam and GOG. I'm not hiding that at all. I've got about 5 people in the last 3-4 months into PC gaming and set up their steam accounts with them. Then I gift them a game as a welcome.
IF steam ever stop being the best choice, I'll move on. I dont see that happening. GOG is DRM free which I love. Epic does exclusivity deals which is fucking gay and retarded. What did steam do that has you so upset? Give you a good deal? Let you refund when you made a mistake? Did you make a game and the reviews were mean? What happened that makes you want steam to be punished for doing right by their customers?

>>740287452
You're talking about things you have no clue about. This has been happening all the time. Most recently, SpaceX completely FUCKED Viasat in the ass making them almost quit the market and bankrupted an entire division of the company which has always been the biggest and they're now looking for other markets to get into. Viasat used to dominate its market.

If Faggot Tim cannot make a fortnite launcher that works with all his money then thats his own issue. Steam is also a buggy mess at times and he could go at it and provide some competition but Tim's crap is irredeemable dogshit

>>740287736
that's anti-semitic

>>740286071
I just bought monster hunter world + DLC for like 10$. No one can beat the Gaben

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>>740286282
Genuinely why should I care? The only thing you should buy on steam is multiplayer shit where 9/10 times has DRM that means once the publisher decides to stop paying rent for the servers they're gone anyways.

If it's worth buying get it on GOG and support the devs that way, otherwise always pirate and pirate anything you have on steam so you actually own it.

>>740287887
How is he wrong? Steam doesn't buy out their competition. They don't kill them in the crib. They don't do shady deals with exclusive games for X months or years. They don't force anyone to use steam. You a dev that doesn't like steam? Don't use it. You a consumer that doesn't like steam? Don't use it. That's how steam could potentially lose. People stop using it. it's such a retarded argument you make that no-one else can do it so that makes steam the bad guy. The reason steam is on top is because they care about their customers and do what they can to advocate for them through policy choices and sales. Honestly, if you're this mad about steam being good for the consumer I just suspect you're some kike game dev thats made steam gets a cut of the money.
EA, Ubisoft, Epic, GOG, Xbox, Windows, Battle.net, Playstation. They all tried to take down steam. Steam did literally nothing to stop them, and they all lost anyway and they all always come crawling back.

make a good competitive marketfront, but that is antisemitic

epic jeet thread

>>740286158
Origin and Uplay aren't even called that anymore. It's the EA app and Ubisoft Connect.
Nothing says confidence in your product like constantly having to rebrand your store and user interface when users reach a critical mass of mocking the prior iteration.

>>740288869
It's funny that they thought replacing an actual unique name with something corporate and bland like "EA app" and "Ubisoft Connect" would sound any better to potential customers. Honestly I'd be more inclined to give it a try if they called it "Bert" rather than something so generic and sterile

>>740286071
Identify why they are doing so well, and do it better than them, for less money.

Steam: relatively easy to get games, games are constantly updated, games slaes, achievements, discussion forums, screenshot/video creation and sharing, modding, game saves stored in a cloud allowing you to continue games on different devices, active linux support

>>740286071
stop posting new threads, faggot