What makes it so much better than its competitors?
>>743794316>Buy game>Install game>Play game>Have problem>Contact support for problem>Get problem solved in a timely fashion>Have problem with game or didn't met criterias>Ask for refund under their policies>Get refund in timely fashion>Do changes that enhances or eases up the player experience>Give player the freedom to modify controls and properties of their local installsTL;DR is do lots of shit that puts the customer(player) first and you get the money.
>>743794316it just werks
The fact that I already have 900 games on there so it's automatically convenient to get more games for the same launcher
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>>743794538Oops sorry that one didn't include the part that actually answers OP
The fact that Gabe Newell created Valve in the first place because he was frustrated with Microsoft not taking PC gaming seriously, and then he set up Steam as a dedicated PC gaming platform at a time when the industry was actively shitting on it and declaring it "dead" while simping for consoles. He also called piracy a mere "service problem" when the competition treated it like a heavy crime. Gabe's an actual gamer who created his private company to support what he's into while the competition are just suits who want to see the line going up.
>>743794316They actually put in effort to make the experience of buying and playing games on PC more convenient, which includes creating technologies that take away potential friction that the platform inherently has. Example: Steam Input and SteamVR. Things like Remote Play Together, Game streaming, turn based game notifications when it's your turn with an easy to drop in/out of such games, workshop, multiplayer and a ton of other APIs for developers also make it easier to create games that don't come with a ton of caveats. Also the push for being able to play your games on any platform, see Proton and FEX.
>>743794316It just works good, doesn’t have anything extra added on or a clunky launcher, basic and functional community features, and steamworks makes it good for fighting games.
>>743794316they never sold out and let a bunch of geriatric barbiturate popping east coast yuppies tell them how much toilet paper they were allowed to wipe with without telephoning the board for a conference callInstead of checking out at 45 and coasting on a generous but ultimately finite salary+stock option for thirty years they decided to do a truly average amount of time doing whatever seemed professionally necessary to achieve their goals and now they will all retire whenever they feel like it, wealthier than most human beings in the history of the human race
For gamersBy gamersNo suits allowed
>>743794316Wide selection of games, good discounts, works across multiple devices easily, doesn't take away the shit I paid for, nice refund policy, auto tracks achievements and playtime, easy chatting with friends, has servers for multiplayer games that otherwise would need to be LAN, the client works and doesn't crash/break every time I open it (looking at you battle.net), has a bunch of exclusives that I enjoy (valve games)
>>743794316They did the bare minimum.
>>743794316>What makes it so much better than its competitors?Not much, it's just that people are used to Steam and they actually want a monopoly. It's still a DRM cuck store, but the best one currently. The only better alternatives are GOG and Piracy. But over the years I've noticed that people like to show off their profile, their playtime and to own everything in one library, no one can compete with that. That would take multiple years and a generational shift, I mean look how long it took to move away from windows, like what? 30 years and it's still going.
$0.5 has been added to your Steam Wallet.
>>743794316Features like the controller support.For example, I had a problem with dynasty warriors 8, where the analog deadzones were causing me to be able to run in the four cardinals, but the diagonals forced me to walk(a problem I've seen in a few other games.) Windows offers no default ability to change this shit.Steam though, lets you fiddle with this shit and more all you fucking want. Fixed the problem, now the game controls fine, and if it happens again, all I gotta do is click on the per-game controller settings again and do what I did tonight.If I got this game standalone, EA, ubishit, epic, gog, anywhere else, I would've been either shit out of luck, or hunting around all fucking night for some third-party program I only need for weird-ass edge cases like this, and gets in my way anytime else.
>>743794316Free cloud saves, refunds and customer support
>>743794316They just do what people want. Corporations and governments dont realise that people would just like them if they just did what people wanted. Like the UK immigrant thing. They're going through so much effort and sneaky underhanded shit to achieve worse results than just building hospitals, fixing the roads, lowering taxes and getting rid of crime.
>>743794538>>743794635>We assumed>We thought>We assumedAre they really just that fucking stupid? Like a company worth trillions with 1000s of the best, smartest business-people cant fucking figure out common sense?
>>743797219Yes, rich jews literally live in a different world than the goyim.
>>743797169The uk immigrant thing is working as intended, it's not about making your slaves happy, it's about making them even more of a broken slave race.
Steam being a private company makes a certain group of people really buttblasted doesn't it lol
>>743797349Yeah it makes me (a steamie) mad because I can't buy their stocks and become rich
to put it simply it just werks
>>743794316they were the first to market
>>743797349I sincerely dread the day gaben bites it because I guarantee you his successor will take the company public and crash the whole thing into the ground as a result.
>>743797381But if you were able to buy some Steam stocks then that would give you voting rights and that would be very bad for all Steam users. Can you imagine if say BlackRock, Vanguard or State Street were able to use their vast wealth to buy up Steam stocks?Steam being a private company will always be a good thing.
>>743797169>anon has yet to understand that the constant humiliations of the polis are intentional
>Steam workshop >In home streaming >Auto game updates >Web streaming to phone >Community Profiles >Best review system >Curators >Holiday sales events >Community profiles >Group chat >Voice chat >Steam overlay >Big picture mode >Best controller support >Best game library tools >Play specific game versions >Remote play together >Best friends list >Achievements >Franchise pages >Screenshots and cloud storage >Cloud saves >Mobile app >Mobile chat app >Livestreaming >Streaming features >Community guides >Community forums >Steam marketplace >News hub >Store discovery >Music player >Steam OS >Steam Deck>Family game sharing>Open about game metrics >Steam inventory>CD key generation support>SteamVR >Proton>Gamescope >Steam Datagram Relay>AMD driver improvements>Gift cards >Wallet >Linux Support >Non-steam game / pirated game supportinb4>that's all social media shitit's not all social media shit
>>743797712Its a good thing politicians are so seperated from reality, or the EU might try to ban Steam with their no social media laws
>>743797904ok zigger
>>743797904Oh don't worry, that's coming. At least in the UK.
>competitors It doesn’t have any.
>>743794316unironically having profiles that you can customize and other people can visit and look at your achievements and how many games you've completed (not that anyone cares but it gives people a reason to use the paltform and maxx games) and compare playtimes
You know after trying out the Epic Games Store I think it's actually better then steam like not only can you play Fortnite the most popular game ever but you get free games all the time like steam never does that they just steal money from devs thro fees but never give back to us gamers like the Epic Games Store does. I really feel respected when using the Epic Games Store!
>>743798671You are absolutely correct. Epic Games Store treats players like friends, instead of customers. Not to mention that Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, buys a lot of land and for the sole purpose of preservation of nature. I am truly happy that we get the privilege of being members of such an environmentally friendly and customer-oriented company.
>>743794316They actually try to give you good service because they understand that a happy customer will be giving you more money
>>743794316Treat consumers better.
>>743798671>>743798764Good morning. Timmy is a corporate kike who actively neglected all his PC franchises, spent years actively shitting on PC gaming and simping over consoles then only decided to become a "savior of PC gaming" when he got hit with a heavy wave of jealousy towards Valve. >m-muh free gamesEnjoy your "free" games locked to a Epic account and their DRM.
>>743797169>building hospitals, fixing the roads and getting rid of crimeHow do you do all that whilst lowering taxes?
>>743794316Gabe has a smile that warms my soul.
>>743799726>Steam took away console physical and are to blamethe reach here is Dhalsim tier.
>>743799989Slave labor, we already imported the right kind of people to make it viable
>>743794450>Get problem solved in a timely fashion
>>743799989removing the imported invaders and preventing more entering will save taxes.
>>743800126This isn't about le physical. This is about Snoy wanting to force Steam users to have a Playstation account in order to play Helldivers 2. They refused and got flamed for it by snoys and gaming journalists, then eventually Sony gave up and the same people who hated on PC bros quietly admitted that they were right.
>>743800170Won't that cost money too?
>>743797712That all social media bullshit, you actually list shit like music player, something not a single soul uses.I guess indians get a shit like this to shill steam with.
>>743800189you have to weigh the costs of each. Stopping illegals or funding them and their offspring for eternity, right to family life importing their extended family etc. crime increase.Which do you think costs more?
>>743797219Millions of dollars gives you the opposite of common sense. In my country we call it 'peasant' s wit'. These big corpos are top busy wuth their heads up their asses to notice basic things. It's like the pen vs pencil in space thing.>americans spend millions on developing a pen that can write in space>the soviets just use a pencilAmericans really don't have enough stories about how power makes you not only corrupt but also retarded
>>743794316its facebook for gaymers
>>743799989Criminals and immigrants are free labour.
>>743794316probably the fact that they can delete my entire game library at any time so i'm scared to think poorly of it
>>743794316It's shit now
>>743801727In a 3000 man prison, you might have 150 at most on detail, and they're just doing shit for the prison. It's not a good deal. While slavery is legal for convicts, no states actually force anyone to work.
>>743794316Private company. No jew on board.
>>743794316Sales
Gabe understands the importance of long term market value. It's literally just that simple.It's not even a particularly good service, it's just okay in an industry where dogshit is standard.
>>743794316a brain-washed fanbase
>>743794635>The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems, and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available.This part is pretty much all that matters.
>>743803971Epic is fully private too so obviously there's more to it than that.
>>743804668Fully owned by China you mean
>>743804829Timmy being a CCP cuck is very in character.
>>743804668yes the "no jew on board" part
>>743794316They were first.They bought the rights to the most popular online game of its day and made it Steam exclusive.(Notch got 2.5 billion for Minecraft. The two guys who made Counter Strike got less than a million)They released more games that were Steam exclusive.They made deals with publishers so physical games you bought in stores were actually just a Steam code.And they got away with it all.
>>743796721You can do it with non steam games, just add them on your steam library and you can use the steam input.
>>743805102>Valve owns MinecraftWhat a fun era we live in, we get to play>is it AI sperging out or an actual schizo
>>743805230Nobody claimed Valve owns Minecraft. Please make an effort to improve your reading skills.
>>743805381>Please make an effort to improve your reading skillsThis is impossible for a yank.
>>743805381So, which is it, minecraft is not a popular game or Valve bought it?
>>743805815>>743805381Kill yourselves faggots.
>>743805815Valve bought Counter Strike (the game every 12 year old wanted to play) and made it Steam exclusive.Microsoft bought Minecraft (the game every 12 year old still wants to play) and made it exclusive to its Microsoft account system.The guy who sold Minecraft is now rich beyond imagination.The guys who sold Counter Strike know they got a terrible deal.
>>743794316Better? Anon, i switched to GOG years ago, only retards still use Steam.
>>743806396>and made it exclusive to its Microsoft account system.Is it time for round two of schizo or AI? Because thats not true either.
>>743794316>controller support for non-controller games + community layout sharing>family sharing>steam workshop>per-game forums you can use with one accountI use this GAMES platform for the GAMES and when posed with options to which platform I should buy my GAMES on I'll choose the one that has the best support for those GAMES.The only thing I've seen another platform do that was even remotely interesting to make it stand out was Ubisoft letting you buy micro DLCs with achievement points and the last game I played that had that was Far Cry 3. Also GOG for anything old. Those steam ports of the original Resident Evil trilogy suck.
>>743806396So confident and so retarded lmaoValve hired both of the people responsible for counter strike
>>743794316>Make a good, convienent service people want to use>People use itWoah...
>>743794316All the competitors are dogshit, inconvenient and extremely inflexible. Then too, there is what >>743794450 said. I still prefer buying pre-2010 games on GoG however for some of the same reasons, mainly convenience and focus.
>>743806773Hiring someone does not give you the right to use their IP.They sold the Counter Strike IP to Valve for basically nothing.
>>743797219He's a lot smarter than most people in the industry desu
>>743794316It works and they did it first so they have momentum.
>>743806936>people are allowed to sell what they own for the price they think its worth>this is a bad thingCommie scum. Take your breadtube takes out back and shoot yourself in the head, thanks.
>>743794316Not having a dog shit storefront experience and having 90% of games
>>743806396Consider when these two instances occurred. In 2000 buying a small IP, somewhat obscure (to the normie) was not a double digit million ordeal. In 2014 buying an actually widely known IP (to the normie) became a double digit million ordeal. Anachronisms are as cancer, and you should not feed such tumors
>>743801727Free labour is bad for the economy because it directly competes with lower wage workers. If you paid for your citizens to work on them instead they'd spend the money on food and clothes etc. helping the economy
Nothing. Victims of it see it as authority. They want to continue it to excuse their actions. It is the wrong thing to do to be involved with them.
>>743807645victims of good service?
>>743794316They did what no other company will ever put thought into: make things easier for gamers and developers to connect, play, stream, record, and share their games, while receiving valuable feedback from potential customers and acting on what could/should be acted upon.They fucking knew where PC gaming was, and knew where it should be, and brought the entire platform to that standard. That would have been all well and good, and Steam would still be the reigning champion of PC gaming until the end of time for JUST that. But Valve took it more than a couple steps farther than that: they saw streaming as a feature they could incorporate when it was first becoming popular, not 1-5 years later down the line. They saw that players loved to share clips of the best parts of their gaming sessions with each other, and post them wherever the hell they wanted to using codecs that are already used everywhere. They saw that gamers loved going after their achievements (and to a much lesser subset, showing them off) so they added them in as well. They saw that the modding communities were having a shit time with stuff like nexus and the like, so they made a modding community/forum/storefront for the mods so modders could more easily incorporate them into the games they want, and for free. There are a dozen more aspects to talk about, but the point to all of this being is Valve saw an opportunity to make the entire gaming experience better, and they put their effort in to make it so. The entire process wasn't motivated by money, clout, shareholders, socioeconomic/political pressures, or bragging rights, it was motivated by gamers being frustrated about certain aspects of their gaming experience being less than what it could be. So Valve took steps to make it better.They did what no publicly traded corporation EVER in the history of the human race ever would think of: they were proactive with problems in the community instead of reactive. Now fuck off, Timmy
>>743794538>>743794635This is the best answer because it's just that simple. Steam competitors are retarded, beyond retarded. That's it. With thousands, millions of aggravating factors, such as being larger companies with more resources to make a product better than steam in every single aspect. Yet... those millions of dollars they have to spend, they simply throw them there hoping that the money tree will grow on its own in less than a year, recovering their investment and generating net profits by the next quarter.
Steam is simple and very easy to use. Also it's so old that most PC gamers have used it since ages ago and probably have all their games on it, there's no fucking point switching to alternatives, and the alternatives are horrible anyway
>>743808092My steam acc is older than most newfags
>>743800459>americans spend millions on developing a pen that can write in space>the soviets just use a pencilThe entire reason for that being was that pencil shavings, graphite dust, and rubber dust caused all sort of havoc with instrumentation and had the hazard of starting fires by creating arcing problems when they landed near wires. Thus the need for a pen that could write in micro-gravity and didn't leave shit in the modules to mess with the electronics. After Apollo 1, the entire paradigm of spaceflight at NASA became focused on safety and returning the astronauts home alive, after seeing Russia's multiple failed attempts to do it themselves.While I 100% get where you're coming from with your analogy, you really ought to find a better one, because the whole "hurr durr burgers spent millions on a pen so stupidly" angle is fucking retarded,
>>743798189this right here. its the only thing competitors and piracy dont offer. it transcends gaming. gaming in itself is empty and hollow. steam makes it interactive and gives it purpose, whether that's through achievements, friends, community creations etc. its not just you and your games anymore. its a massive one stop shop for everything gaming related. no one else can compete
>be me >not a fag >browse /v/ for new releases >see glowing steam reviews for new AAA slop >buy it like a retard >launch game >literal dogshit >stuttering like my uncle after 3 bottles of vodka >broken menus, invisible walls, 5 fps in cutscenes >spend 2 hours editing .ini files, hex editing .exe, downloading 3 different mods just to make it boot >somehow clock 7 hours "playing" this abortion >seethe.jpg >hit up steam support for refund >Gabe: "based, here's your shekels back m8" >instant approval >buy that one hidden gem /v/ was shilling last week >actually kino as fuck >200 hours later >still haven't refunded >Valve wins again >mfw Gabe is the only good jew in gaming
>>743807645truth nuke
>>743809306I agree, totally unique and likely handsome anon.
>"buy" Valve game on my w7 computer>a few later I can't even play the game because steam now uses chromiumjeet and doesn't support w7Money stolen
>>743810615>is so third world he still uses Windows 7If your CPU doesn't have POPCNT, you're not really human.
>>743797219Yes, because they're so big they lack humility and common sense
>>743800209>>743810432I gave a list of features steam offers and you posted cope. You lost.
>>743810615What game?
>>743794316literally everything.
>>743807971EGS seems to realize it's not going to happen over-night and are willing to run loss-leaders, but steam's combination of monopoly and FMA is one hell of a thing to take on
>>743813306anything that's updated lately, they changed the dl file encoding
>>743794480So does gog
>>743795107Only because gaben can't fit in one.
>>743794637it's important to realize that gaben was on the development team for the very first version of windows, so he was in at ground zero for windows gaming, which was a quantum leap from dos gaming, although it would take some time for it to mature and surpass the already well-developed (but already aging) dos gaming ecosystem at the time
>>743810615and which other company put out their own Linux distro to let you play both old and new games?
>>743794316It's not publicly listed.
If you care about platform features, you buy from Steam.If you don't care about platform features, you pirate.It's that simple.
>>743797219Yes. A thousand times, yes. The main thing you'll never see any of these failed competitors admit: they all created bloated interfaces with lots of flashy pictures and ads. These guys just have zero fucking clue how annoying that is to deal with on your own computer and they don't care. They are so used to their own users taking it up the ass on every webpage stuffed with ads and user-hostile behaviors (like making canceling Prime near-impossible), that they do the same thing with their game launchers. Then, when people say it's awful compared to Steam's relatively ad-sparse and simple interface, they act just completely shocked.IMO, Steam had gotten a little more bloated over time, and now there is real room for a competitor to come in and take ground. A lightweight and responsive ad-free launcher would be received well, but no one wants to do that because ads make more money than selling games does.
>>743794316Build by gamers for gamers.All the other ones are built by managers for shareholders.
>>743813420>EGS shilling
>epigs and goglems have been having a meltdown for days after being completely raped and gaped by steamGODS
>>743809278>>buy that one hidden gem /v/ was shilling last weekWhat's her name?
it works 50% of the time rather than 10% of the time
didn't see it mentioned in a quick scroll, cant be fucked BUT>actual community hubs for games>workshop ease of modding some games>''family'' sharing libraries get bent Epic, can't even be fucked to implement avatars for Rocket League functionality... or at all
It just works. It's really that simple, it works and it has the biggest selection of shit. People here might stomp their feet and scream about licenses and how all the features like community hubs and workshops are bad actually, but the overwhelming majority of people do NOT care.Doubly so for Linuxbros.
>>743797712shit, I didnt know steam had a music player
>>743794316>Freedom>Ownership>No DRM>Consumer-first policy>Has all the games>Best profile customization available in any platform, better even than social medias>Discloses when a game is made using AI>Displays people's specs when they review a game, which makes it easy to identify who's talking legit and who's bullshittin'>Never steals your games/money
>>743794316They care about their legacy.
>>743818970>>Freedom>>Ownership>>No DRManon...
>>743822856You own all your games on Steam. DRM, even Denuvo, can easily be bypassed with a click of a mouse button on Steam games, Valve itself encourages the players to do it
>>743823289>You own all your games on Steamcan i sell them or give them away to a friend, without giving them my whole account?>DRM, even Denuvo, can easily be bypassed with a click of a mouse button on Steam gameswhat?
>>743823696>can i sell them or give them away to a friendi play my brother and cousin games without problems
>>743823696>can i sell them or give them away to a friend, without giving them my whole account?crack the files, zip them up, send to a friend. EZ.
>>743823769>>743823776so i can't sell them hm, sounds like i don't really own them then
>>743823696>what?DRM on steam is just a suggestion by this point, it's easily bypassed by messing with the game files, even Denuvo can be removed this way, because it's weak af on Steam
>>743823885you meant goldberg or another emu then, yea true the drm is weak
>>743823968I don't mean goldberg, you don't need any of that crap, you just need to mess with the games' files and there you, DRM, even Denuvo, bypassed
everytime faggot shills on this board shill against steam and valve and gay ben, i purchase more things on the steam store just to spite them, simple ass
>>743824584how?
>>743797219You have to understand that those people live in a completely different world from most of us. They don't deal with our same everyday problems, so they approach things from a different perspective.We see Steam as a platform that "just werks":>controller support>seamless installs>workshop>family Sharing>effortless game transfers between drivesand countless other QoL features.They, on the other hand, see Valve as just another company providing a service, without really understanding why people actually choose to use Steam.That's why that retard frames it as "we failed to build a better service." To them, it's a feature checklist and a business problem.They fail to recognize that Steam's value comes from years of polishing the user experience, not just from selling games.
>>743794316Steam is focused on a constructive, long-term business model over the extractive, short-term focus of their competitors.>>743799989Western governments spend absurd amounts of money on importing and subsidizing retarded third worlders and other subsapient biomass, both directly and indirectly.Stop the flood, and that absurd budget can be re-allocated to actually benefiting the common citizens.Unfortunately, most people in government are entropic commie cultists or midwit suits who only care about short-term personal gain.
>>743823879>so i can't sell them hmYes you can.
they were the first and you bought all your games on there, therefore you're tied to the platform and don't want to leave it
>>743826290woah
>>743814127>and now there is real room for a competitor to come in and take groundGOG is on its way there.
>>743794316It's designed around buying games while the competition is designed around selling games.
>>743814546Invisible, Inc.
>>743794316IdkMost of the time I just want to launch a game without launching steam
>>743794316Facebook for gamers
>>743794450>buy game>install game>install patches>install dlc you didn pay for and you cant play with>compiling shaders>play gamefixed it for you
>>743826684no, it's more that they're based and everyone else is a woke gay bunch of kikes, and they make every nigger that i hate (aka you) seethe
>>743827434and this only gets worse when you play on Stroon Deck or Linux
>>743827348The social network aspect of Steam is what will end up killing it. Kids won't use the same social network their uncs use.
>>743794316Nothing
>>743807971/threadValve knows their business well, and we are partially blind to cause for us it's just normal. What a lot of normies and newbies miss though, is that Valve has been very aligned with the hardcore and older audience, while boomer MAB retard #9548 would have exploited them by now. Which is why Epic and GOG struggle with momentum. Businesses won't tell you, but as hardcore players, early adopters you are so extremely important it's unreal. Shifts in userbases is driven by those people, and this is partially why open source assblasts pretty much anything with a 20 year lag, which is around the time that patents start to expire.
>>743827348>>743827575I have never used the social stuff in Steam. I use it if I have a problem with a game and need to ask a question or two. That's it. It's completely irrelevant in the grander scheme of things. Steam is successful because of the exemplary service. The other stuff is just bonus on top.
>>743823879why does muh ownership with you people always come down to you exposing how fucking impoverished you are?Normal people don't buy games with the intent of getting a partial refund down the line and if you're indeed that poor you can just pirate Your plastic is midwit cope
>>7437943161st out the gate for digital distribution models.Being 1st gives massive advantage by having long time customers being less and less likely to move elsewhere the more their libraries fill up even if better deals appear on some other platformNo stockholders / Valve is privately owned so no incentive to maximize profit for shareholders since customer's are the only (or at least major) source of income they have.
>>743828183>you're concerned about being able to recover value from your purchases, thus exercising basic fiscal responsibility>you must be poorhmm some steamie projection going on i see
>>743828660I told you fag, if you're so poor that you need to recover from buying games then you should be piratingIt's literally functionally superior, it costs nothing Why aren't you naming actual measurable, unique benefits to caring about plastic?
>>743828930>Why aren't you naming actual measurable, unique benefits to caring about plastic?in 30 years MY collection will be worth as much as a small car, meanwhile "your" steam library will be peddled between shareholders and made completely worthless the when the company inevitably goes public and they start charging you a subscription to even access it, lol!just kidding i have almost no physical games, but you are funny to bait
>>743794316shopping cart
>>743829591>shareholdersStopped reading right there, but I should have stopped reading at "my collection" because in about 10 years every cartridge's internal battery will be dead, if it isn't dead right now at this moment, and every CD/DVD/HDDVD/Blu-ray will have deteriorated to the point of not being able to do anything with it. YOUR collection will be nothing but plastic scrap in that time.
>>743829591Your collection will be worthless in 30 years because almost nobody will have the device to play it (let alone a working one) and they'll be using subscription service to play video games anyway.
>>743830924actually the valve hard drives where all the game content is stored will get cosmic bitrot and it will be "YOUR" games which will start deteriorating over time. expect more glitches and weird looking people in your vidya as time goes on, don't say i didn't warn ya.>>743831341>they'll be using subscription service to play video games anywayyea whose video games do you think you're gonna be subscribed to? that's right, MINE
>>743831765You don't even own 0.1% share in any of the major gaming companies.
>>743832116you don't even own 0.1% of your games, lol!
>>743832116At least I can play my games 30 years from now, unlike you.
Valve cultist shill thread
Steam just won
>>743834742This is why Steam is on top. Constant improvements every year.
>>743794538I've been gaming on PC for twenty plus years and I've literally never heard of any of that shit
>>743797712And they also improve a lot of these even further all the time. The steam overlay update they did 2 years back was great, I use that shit all the time to take notes in games and it saves the notes individually for each game when I pull it up.
>>743794316They're just as shit as Sony. If I buy a game I wanna own it, not rent it.
>>743834742>Valve constantly adds new, user friendly, features>GOSH WHY DOES EVERYONE LOVE THEM IT MUST BE BECAUSE THEY'RE A MONOPOLY
>competitorsname one serious competitor for a walled garden game platform, pic unrelated (clearly)
>>743834742>no longer need to be friends to send giftsNO NO NOBAD BAD BADi don't want to be spammed with 5000 copies of nigger simulator 2001 by some random faggot ngubu from nigeria, fuck off with this "feature"
>>743835816you can just decline them you know
>>743834742Based Valve
>>743837312>>743834742nigger
I unironically regret wasting money on the Steam Deck.
>>743795107>for games>online DRM client>you dont own shit if steam goes down>can't even archive your games because its all DRMyea, so pro consumer and for the gamers.
>>743797219Because they hire consultants and outsource the thinking. It's seriously all corporate do, actually insane how many more jobs there would be, and how much would actually get done on time if we stopped hiring fucking consultants.It's why DEI hires are such a prevalent thing. No one looks at market research enough, it's vastly done of sensationalism and vibes.|Because a company gets so big the decisions can;t be manned by one or a few people any more. They suffer from their own 'success'. It's why indy games (the ones worth playing at least) are often so much better these days than AAA. Because they take risks and they listen to what feedback they manage to get. Same concept with Steam. It's HUGE in popularity and income, but as he says, it's a small company in the grand scheme of these big fat sharks chomping at the bit.
>>743814398Thanks for switching to my (correct) slurs.
>>743794316First mover advantage.
>>743834742>price calculated at checkout based on friend's regionThis makes 99% of cross-region gifts more expensive, but Steamies call this a win
>>743840175Why would a thirdworlder buy someone in the US a game?
>>743794316Linux as a first class citizen is a big one for me
>>743839282Why would someone come on the Internet and lie
>>743810615>MUH W7
