Does he deserve it? I feel like my notebook has gotten slower ever since the shovelware of Steam is running in the background.
>>744204204that's a weird question op. what does deserve mean in this context? he obviously made the money go into his bank account, so what are you actually asking here?
>Does he deserve it?YesThe industry wanted PC gaming dead or at least severely crippled during the 2000's, meanwhile Gaben actually supported it with his private platform.
>>744204204Why isn’t he using that money to make some games?
>>744204313Yeah people now like to pretend otherwise but PC gaming was pretty much dead for 9 years If you were a gamer in the 2000s you most likely played on a ps2 and a 360Minecraft, csgo, and league of legends rebirthed PC gaming but steam was a good framework that was the glue until those came out in the early 2010s I still remember cliffy b openly shitting on PC
>>744204204Enlighten us. What is this shovelware you speak of? I think you are mistaking Epic for Steam
>poor commie fuming at success
>>744204204you have games for PC as a standar thanks to a man who said "let's make a page where people can buy games cheap because they are digital"
just close the game when you're not playing. also your own fault if you buy shovelware
>>744204542We don't need more games, and superyachts employ a lot more young people with stable incomes to support starting families than video games
>>744204204It's awesome this guy got so rich and flaunts it because he decided to create a pro-consumer platform, while developers seethe at his wealth because they're morally incapable of doing the same. Maybe there's some justice in the world.
>>744204859>we don't need more games>year 2005, 500 games per week on ps2, most of them good>year 2026, 7 games per year, a lot of them are midYeah, sure, we don't need more games, in fact, we need to stop making games, only CAPCOM need to make games, and they need to be Remakes, a Remake of Pragmata would be nice.
>>744204563>If you were a gamer in the 2000s you most likely played on a ps2 and a 360Gaben fanboys did.The dumb little shits who praise Gaben for bringing console port #9474 to Steam.The worthless cumstains who love sifting through 1000 cubic meters of shovelware to find the actual game releases on Steam.The soulless rats who use words like "framework" and "platform"
>>744204204I don't get the appeal of being rich and buying yachts
>>744204254"does he deserve to have that much money" which is obvious to anyone born outside of india
>>744204563>If you were a gamer in the 2000s you most likely played on a ps2 and a 360No I didn't. I played CRPGs, Counter-Strike and Dota.
>>744204204just shut down steam when not using?
>>744204859Most of these young people are unironically jeet and SEAsian slaves. Only the captain is probably White and already in his late 40s.
>>744204967He has it, so yeah
Its from his company he made and ran so yeah. I hope you're not some dumb Neet or Hippie who thinks other people should fund your life where you choose to do nothing.
>>744204542PLAYDEADLOCK
>>744204967>IndiaWhat is this mind disease going around 4chan where so many people have become psychopathically obsessed with India? Seriously some people literally cannot stop talking about it and make every topic or conversation somehow about India. I am genuinely baffled at this utter utter obsession.
>>744204542Why should he?
Steam is the only online marketplace I have ever actually liked.
>>744204204When this guy passes away, some faggots around a table will absolutely ruin Steam. You know they will. So, yes. He deserves it simply for being a cool guy that knows what gamers want and doesn't fix what's not broken. Although he needs to beat the shit out of all the purple haired freaks in charge of curation.
>>744205438The pakicucks seethe here while poojet chads are scamming elderly women
>>744204204let's say that number is bullshit and they make only 15 billion yearly, even after taxes, servers, wagies etc Valve will still have a few billions left, so they can finance a few games per year and still have a lot left but that FAT FUCK won't do it
>>744204204Can't wait for this fuck to die. I hope he dies on the yacht and all the whores have to smell his dead gas that was released.
>>744205438Simple. its a kike deflection, same way it was with nigs before. They keep people focusing their hate on something else so they dont start noticing.
>>744205438>y is buzzword overused on /v/: dead horse beatings???
>>744204204>>744204542I love how people conveniently ignore the purposes of his yachts, they're bad actors trying to portray Gabe as the generic greedy billionaire. Gabe uses his yachts for oceanic research purposes, he often teams up with scientists for such missions. Did you know that we know more about the surface of the moon than of the earth's oceans' floor? Gabe's yachts are not for greed or leisure, he's using them to massively help us understand our planet, more specifially a critically understudied part of our planet
>>744204542You don't just pay to make games. There are office spaces to lease and hundreds (if not thousands) of employees to consider. It's a long-term investment. He'd have to aquire both and basically reboot their entire game dev sector that's been shut down for years. And, frankly, he's not going to find any employees that meet the standards of 20 years ago. They're all gone.
>>744205692the moon is open-world(moon) slop, it is not surprising
>>744204739zoomers using a term they heard somewhere that sounded clever. Steam is bloated, yes, but that's a personal opinion. Fact of the matter is there's a lot of background processes for features that people want and don't consider to be bloat. So, whether or not the resource usage is warranted is not as cut and dry as my printer drivers using 4gb of my SSD. Steam actually has useful features.
>>744205778this, the devs were super lazy, just got the same generic gray environment, some craters and copy pasted it all over the place
WHAT WITH MEN AND BOATS?
>>744204204Let's see... he gives us>The best storefront>The best games>The best prices for said games>Easy and sensible refund system>The best profile customization that rivals even those of dedicated social media platforms>Great customer serviceYeah, I think he pretty much deserves it
>>744204204steam runs pretty nicely for me, doesn't use that much in the way of resources
>>744204976Most people did notCrpgs were dead during the 2000s so you were playing decade old games Newest counter strike was source, the dark ageDota was still a janny mod
still not installing EGS
Why do they always leave out the part where he uses the yacts with marine life researchers and other scientists
>>744205570It's not that he's cooler than anyone else so much as Valve being privately owned. When a company goes public, they are forced to do everything they can to turn a profit. I mean LEGALLY forced. It is their legal obligation to stockholders to do everything they possibly can to keep the numbers going up. Which means long-term investments and riding out rough patches is not an option. Which is why Xbox is shitting the bed right now. They had to raise GamePass prices not so they could make money out of greed, but because they could be dragged into court for not doing it if it meant increased profits.Steam doesn't have to worry about any of that shit. If they were publicly traded, you would see the entire Steam interface blanketed in adds and pop-ups and the platform would be dead right now, just like EGS. Being private is what's keeping Steam alive.
>>744204204>the shovelware of Steam is running in the backgroundDo you mean the Steam app itself, or are you alleging shady background operations even when the software is actually fully closed?
>>744204204My notebook (GPD pocket 4) got significantly faster with steamOS running on it.
>>744204950I am not that rich, but I am rich enough and my uncle is on the bottom rung of very rich enough to realise even if you have lots of money most things you can get or buy aren't actually any more unique or special than what everyone else can buy for status. A very expensive phone is still basically mass-produced in a factory and every other phone basically does the same thing. Property can be big or small but everyone still lives and shits in the same kind of toilets. Even luxury cars aren't the sole province of the chosen/grafting few. They do not automatically tell people you are just higher class. But Yachts/Boats are, because oh my fucking christ are they a huge fucking money hole. That's my theory anyway my uncle went into planes instead (also because his company makes mostly commerical plane parts and weirdly, ejector seats) so his thing is owning a private airfield and small fleet of microplanes/cessnas. Also divorces, he's 84 now and been divorced 8 times. I have more cousins than every other type of family member combined. Thanks Uncle Nick. As for me I'm just comfortable so I can only spec in pleb stuff like paying £40,000 for a watch that does the same thing as a $12 casio. Sad.
he deserves much more.
>>744204204More than most of the other billionaires and especially randomly boosted Tim Seethenely
>>744204950yachts are pretty sick.you get to fuck off from society while still having pure luxury convenience around you.being around and in water is very nice too.
>>744205692>Gabe uses his yachts for oceanic research purposes, he often teams up with scientists for such missionsstill 0 proof of this btw
>>744204204just where is all this money going to? valve barely ever even produces games, and they don't produce third party projects like what epic does, AND they are a private company.>gabe buys a new yacht and mansion in the same yearah... it all makes sense now. nice to know that 30% cut is (not) going back to the games industry. fat clown is a parasite on the industry.
>>744206597https://www.forbes.com/sites/deajusufi/2026/06/13/gabe-newells-700-million-deep-sea-research-vessel-could-change-ocean-science-forever/
It always was amusing how valve basically turned into a cult with gabe as their leader. In the early days Gabe was actually pretty cool and responsive to the community but those days have been looooooooooooong gone. It boggles my mind how people still think valve cares about them. Valve also single handily killed off the physical game market on PC and also openly embraced loot boxes which /v/ gives them the pass on for no reason other than being a cult member.
>>744206821Your script is so dull.
>>744206161you don't need a fucking super yacht for marine research. a cheap boat can perform the same task. the yachts are luxury indulgence to greedily preserve wealth, nothing more. it's why rich people buy so much expensive shit. the "marine research" is just a big fat excuse to create some false sense of morality, one that idiots like you fall for.
>yacht>preserve wealthwe need a third world firewall.
He deserves a swift kick in the ass and an apple for the road.Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?i don't know and i don't really give a fuckValve used to make good games and now they don't have to because they make too much money from Steam. Gaben doesn't give a fuck about making games anymore and probably is more busy with being a fat slob on some private island fucking thai prostitutes.sad, man
>>744207337A yacht is just a tax write off, all of his assets are actually frozen in place and untaxed.
>own GOG game on an offline installer on Blu-ray disc>Still just werks in 30 years >Get to enjoy my games and no worries >Steam game on a DRM online account platform >Will be dead in 30 years and money stolen >Everyone trusted gabe, billions of account value lostYou don't own shit on steam, you pay for a rental service.
>>744204204No, I regret giving steam my money. If I knew Gabe was going to spend it all on yachts instead of Half Life 3 I would have never used his shitty platform.
>>744205692>>744206772This is for tax evasion purposes, retard.
>>744204774where's your yacht?
>>744204204no. he basically LIDDERALLY stole from me by giving me the best prices on games for years
>>744208839What's the color of your yacht?
>>744204204>deservewhy does it matter
>>744208859>30% cut (same as gamestop and every other brick and mortal store, actually more if you count their upkeep costs)>best prices
>>744208976>>30% cutand that affects me how?
>>744204859>superyachts employ a lot more young people with stable incomes to support starting families than video gamesyou couldn't be more wrong, you retarded gorilla nigger
>>744209020because fees always get passed along to customers? that's how they keep their margins high.
>>744208793It can be both.
>>744208839>you're not jealously fuming at people creating success? WHAT ARE YOU RICH OR SOMETHING?Commie mindset.
>>744204204>commie pissing and shitting itself that a successful business is successfulAnd your argument against it would be what exactly? That he could give it away to some corrupt 3rdie shit hole so they can launder it and kill each other? That he can just give it away to poor people and they will magically stop being junkies now that they have the money to OD themselves? Fucking deluded retard.
>>744209413How much of a sheep are you that you ignore improving consumer benefits and immediately think of third worlders? You're being sucked dry by the rich and you think your enemy is rajeesh in india lmao.
>>744204204knowing gabe yachts are probably just a really good store of money for the affluent/rich and require x amount of dollars of maintenance per year while growing in value. he's a fat fuck who likes tech bullshit and food, so he probably just spends all day asking chatgpt for steak recipes. you'd hear rich people brag about knowing him if he was an actual 'elite' in the sense that he flaunted his wealth and hosted parties with girls constantly
>>744209413There is nothing wrong with being poor and wanting to overdose
>>744206285I'm happy for you, though I hope you don't pay money for bad video games regardless.Gaben's yachts are science vessels and not luxury cruisers as far as I know. One is a hospital ship too I think.
>>744204204>billionaire badYour average politician does more damage to society than any billionaire.
>>744204204>I feel like my notebook has gotten slower ever since the shovelware of Steam is running in the background.that's windows you fucking idiotthat shit wastes gigabytes of ram by turning basic ui into fucking react webapps
>Make money>use money to buy what you likeCommies hate this one trick
>>744204204okay, so you've aired this grievance, what's the alternative? and they have to have at least half the features steam does or why the fuck would i switchwhy does steam generate hourly shitposters? instead of buying bots to shitpost about steam, they should buy better coders or something
>>744204950I get the appeal of buying a yacht, but not multiple yachts. What are you even supposed to do with anything beyond one?
>>744211596rent them out to organizations so they can use it as a vessel for different types of research
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?yes, he saved pc gaming during the dark days of the ps3/x360 era. never forget that.
go back to bed Tim
>>744211596have them ready when you travel? he lives between the usa and new zealand.
>does he deserve ityou cant EARN a billion dollarshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/JBQwgkaqoHY
>>744211596It's a "solid" asset unlike cash.
>>744211596gaben is a big guy
>>744204204Why does this butthury tendy keep on spamming this same thread over and over again? What broke him?
>>744204204I took several pictures of that thing yesterday. It's docked here, along with three other superyachts.
>>744204943I can still play games from early 2000 without issues.Do that on a console.
>>744207967>probably is more busy with being a fat slob on some private island fucking thai prostitutes.
>>744208079You're a special kind of retard, huh?
>>744204950look up the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, it's all for self esteem, not necessarely in a bad way but it do give them the freedom to travel anywhere at any time without anyone telling them no but the weather or a war.it's like when you can finally take your personnal car, it doesn't matter if the weather is shit, you can just drive to the mall and buy whatever you want, same shit with yacht
>>744212568You're such a fucking idiot.
>yacht>asset
>>744204563>Yeah people now like to pretend otherwise but PC gaming was pretty much dead for 9 years>If you were a gamer in the 2000sBullSHIT. Back in the 00s I bought my games in colourful, displayable cardboard boxes, with printed manuals, professionally translated and published by local businesses instead of foreign corpos, sold at local retail stores at prices appropriate for the average income. Then in came Gaben with the retarded regional pricing scheme and always online DRM. Fuck you. I want to go back.
>>744213087>i want to go back to starforce and securom and the drought of ps360
>>744213241Funny you'd say that, considering my country's software publishers, back when they existed, made it a point to remove invasive DRM from the stuff they published. I suspect it was actually just nocd cracks bundled in, but it was all on the legal.
>>744209125If those were dedicated research vessels with that much money poured into them they would do more science in a day then GabeNs entire fleet does in a year.
>>744212048He feels threatened by the fact that the Switch 2 has zero (0) third party exclusives. Literally all of them are on Steam
>>744204950and that is why you're poor
>>744204563Spoken like a true retard
>>744205438Forgot your aqua avatar
>>744204563>If you were a gamer in the 2000s you most likely played on a ps2 and a 360Only if you were a raging faggot. Consoles have always been for kids, retards and poorfags.
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?Yes.Valve built Steam up when PC gaming had been almost abandoned by most others.They got in early and provided a good service, so now they are reaping the rewards.The others are mostly just salty grifters who want in on the success without ever having done the initial legwork and are pissed that people see no reason to switch over to them.
>>744204204so what would you say are the tiers of wealth? like you have maybe>doctors/lawyers tier, at around 200-500k a year depending on specialty>able to live comfortably and afford some luxuries>mostly the same around 1m+ tier>this is probably the tier where people can start collecting cars or other luxuries>probably changes beyond 10-100m>nicer houses maybe, finally getting into private jet money, maybe getting a ranch, bunker or some shit? idk>1B+ not that many changes from previous tier>biggest differentiators are the yachts I suppose, the only real way to flex on others>beyond 1B+>not much separating the previous tier, maybe buying a social media company or influencing elections? but I would imagine the previous tier can already do that and not call that much attention to itself, especially if lobbying for something very niche/specific
Steam sells ALL of your metric + personal data as well. Pc gaymers are cattle
>>744214627>buys a complete black box with no control over the operating system instead
>>744204204>deserveThis word immediately dictates that you are not asking me to justify ownership to you. You're asking me to change your values for you.A better word to frame your threads beyond "please think for me" would be "earn."Did he earn it?
>>744204967What is this supposed to mean? He has the money. There's no "deserve" in this. Do you deserve to be beheaded? I think yes, why not.
>>744204967people gave them that money voluntarily in exchange for using the thing he made. it wasn't assigned to him by the CEO of earth or something
>>744214103You're making poor choices to compare these tiers as "close" or "not much difference."Wealth is a measurement of power. Those "tiers" you speak of extend a person's power and influence by ENORMOUS values. Personal impact, family impact, neighborhood impact, community impact, state impact, national impact, continental impact, global impact, futuristic impact, existential impact... Being able to heavily influence your neighborhood is considerably less powerful than being able to heavily influence Malaysia.The only "little difference" I would point to is how much difference it would make on that wealthy person. As exponential the rise can be from "starving" to "Michelin chef," so can be the plateau of "how good I feel today."Do you want to speak on Gabe or do you want to speak on 620 million humans living in North America?
>>744213594you'll never be rich, lolbertarian
>>744205692eh, you could argue that for maybe 2-3 of his boats. The rest are luxury yachts through and through.
>tax write off>money laundering99.9% of posts that use these terms can be safely ignored. They aren’t difficult concepts to understand but commies/fascists/populists/thirdies etc are incapable of using them correctly
>>744204204You CANNOT use the word "deserve" without understanding differently equal perspectives!Half the people who hear the word "deserve" smile and shout with glee:>Hooray!! Now I'm getting a present! A gift! My life is better! I'm happy!The other half who hear the word "deserve" frown and become reclusive, thinking:>Oh no! Now I'm going to jail! Punishment! My life has more suffering! I'm unhappy!You MUST understand that "deserving" depends on values. And there are lots of different values.
>>744213579You don't even know what science is retard. Pipe down
>>744205438Because, you stupid nigger. The amount of Indians online is dwarfing the rest of the world. This has coincided with an extreme drop in post quality and conversation IQ. It's just a safe bet to guess when you find a retard esl online that they are indian.
>>744204950It's a big house that moves. It's essentially one of the only actual tangible measures of wealth that exists still, in the sense that very few other people can possess such a concept. You can have a massive 30 bedroom compound mansion but a) it's just a house but big and b) you're still bound by location. An island is in the sea but it doesn't move.Wealth display competition is also easier to achieve as it's a very narrow marketplace.If flying castles existed, or rich people could live in magical teleporting houses, nobody would have yachts, they would just do that instead.
>>744216364Based bluebird bringing in much needed nuance to the discussion
>>744206101which one bit the remote?
>>744204950Unironically its just something they can spend their money on.Ships are crazy expensive to maintain.So it's something rich people can sink large amounts of money into.
>>744204204Strange. Steam doesn't make my machine run slow when it's on in the background. Something must be wrong with your settings. Or maybe something is wrong with your system.
It's the same reason people can be happy or upset.Was OP happy or upset?Are (You) happy or upset?Do you deserve it?Are your choices making you constantly feel better, or making you feel regretful?
>>744204967Nobody deserves that much money and all rich people should be rounded up
>>744209598>no one mentions india>indian thinks it is the main characterGood Moring Saar!
>>744204563PCjeets absolutely malding
>>744204542>spent 7 years working your ass off to break maybe a billion>do nothing, get 16 billiongeeh anon, who knows?
>>744223128He created a service for both players and devs that, so far, no other corporation was able to replicate, which guarantees bith player satisfaction and wide exposure to customers for devs. Why should he not profit from providing a service that provides both of these while every competitot failed in either 1 or both of these?
>muh karma
>>744223656He doesn't actually need all that luxury shit therefore he doesn't need all that moneyIt's a waste and he's an enemy of humanity and the world for wasting so much on excess
>>744211596yachts dont flyit would cost a shitton in fuel and weeks of time to move it over to your new locationso the obvious answer is to keep a yacht everywhere you might go
>>744223656>libertarian babbleA human doesn't even need 1% of his wealth to live with the highest comfort possible, so he doesn't need it, and doesn't deserve it.Talking about meritocracy on a site inhabited by so many Americans is a lost cause anyway. keep sucking billionaire dick for all I care.
>>744224160Yes Mr. Eurotrash, keep giving all your taxes to the EU, surely it won't be wasted in some nepobaby's pet project turned into a propaganda piece?
>>744204563That's pretty much how I remember it. Maybe not right at the start of that decade, but by the mid 2000's PC games were practically impossible to find in stores. It was like one shelf of an end cap at Game Stop/EB Games/ whatever else there was. Woe upon you if you didn't have a local CompUSA. Even if you managed to buy something you'd be probably be locked out of it before long thanks to SecuROM anyways.I think it was around the end of that decade that Steam was finally picking up steam (heh) as a store and drawing in developers and publishers. It was actually a quality selection back then too. >I still remember cliffy b openly shitting on PCI'll never forget Tim Sweeney telling anyone that'd listen that PC gaming was dead and consoles were the future. Oh, the ironing.
>>744204313This, pc gaming was basically declared dead a couple of times by magazines back then, everything revolved around which console was better. PC gaming magazines were called niche, because computers were considered office machines. Console gaming was already a nerdloser hobby, so playing games on office machines was absolute friendless strange weirdo tier.I think people nowadays can't imagine how downlooked anything nerdy was back then, all of that took a complete 180 turn within 20 years, thankfully
>>744205438Modern 4chan is spic website so they are really focused on anyone dumber and browner than them
>>744206597>nooo i NEED PROOF that he's doing something with his own property that is good for all mankind!nigger he can do whatever he wants with it. be happy he's not building nukes and blowing your dumb ass up
>>744204204Gabe honestly looks like an asshole now.Like he's just stopped giving a shit about vidya at all.
>>744204204>the first to recognize that piracy was a service issue>made a pc boom possible by killing limited activations, securom, starforce and other retarded drm methods that were killing pc gaming>put premium games on one good store instead of 7 shitty stores with 7 accounts>made jap devs move away from console and to PC so their games don't get stuck on dying closed ecosystems>made pc handhelds viable for gaming>made linux viable for gaming in case microsoft goes to shit>made exclusivity less and less viable by the day>does he deserve spending 3% of his net worth hard to say...
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?Yeah.
Fuck boats I would just buy homes all across the world.
I for one am ok with supporting the Gabe navy and deep sea research. I'm not jealous of his success and he can do what he wants with it
>>744204204wheres his hair
>>744205438>me on the right
>>744223824Its not being wasted, he is supporting the boat industry. Hoarding and not spending is worse. If you want some of his money, make boats
>>744226794Also deep sea diving tech that comes with researching the most advanced submarine in the world. That sort of stuff is useful for things like repairing underwater infrastructure like fiber optic cables.
>>744226525>navy and deep sea researchhave they ever even produced anything of value, or is it just a guise to do whatever the hell this kike is doing in international waters? never trusted his fake wholesome chungus persona
>>744227310One of the things he owns is one of the most advanced deep sea sub vessels in existence. He didn't make it but he is funding that as well as fcuking around on yachts. And anyway who cares, who says anyone has to contribute anything. Funding it is supporting its existence to do whatever its doing. If you become rich do you have to become a philanthropist or be hated? Fuck that if ever I get money like that I'm doing whatever the fuck I want
>>74422731090% of it is a cover operation for some kind of spying. Just like the space program was 90% putting spy satellites in orbit and 10% going to the moon.
>>744204204he also owns the sub james cameron used to dive down to the mariana's trench
>>744204204I love this PR campaign where we pretend Gabe is a super billionaire thats destroying everyone's lives. Valve wll never go public now go back to spinning your dreidels.
>>744204950Rich fat people grow unsatisfied with their mansions because they actually don't walk around them at all, it's much more convenient and comfy to live in only a biggish-house sized section of the mansion. A yacht is a more tangible use of mansion-tier funds if you don't run marathons: a livable house that roams around and brings in the sea breeze is basically the most relaxing concept imaginable for a tired guy that everyone tries to bother.
>>744205692Why does he like ocean science so much? Alot of Oceanography equipment is heavy, you have to burn calories to deploy it.
>>744204204>I feel like my notebook has gotten slower ever since the shovelware of Steam is running in the background.If Steam has a meaningful performance impact on your PC, you're poorer than Daveigh Chase was.
>>744204204As long as Steam maintains a hands off approach to publishing games, yes. Sure, I'd like some curation, but giving everybody a chance is the better option.
>>744204204He might as well be the Tim Cook/Jeff Bezos of the video game industry. He probably has everything he could want and more, has so much money probably doesn't even know what to do with all of it.
>>744204204at least it's real money and he's putting it back into the economy, it's good when rich people spend all of their money
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?Are you a communist?
>>744204204That isn't his boat it's just a random yacht from image search.
>>744223656>this mangaHOW HOW HOW DO I GET A 13 YEAR OLD GF???
>Hey, anons. I just bought this car.
>>744204950It's essentially a way to go on vacation to beautiful tropical places without dealing with the public at all.
>helped the environment, between 2008 and 2019, Tim Sweeney has purchased and dedicated over 50,000 acres of North Carolina land to conservation, the most notable being the Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre natural area that contains more than 130 rare and threatened plants and wildlife species meanwhile Gabe is destroying the ocean with his fleet of yachts>revolutionized game development with the Unreal Engine>funded the PC ports of the Kingdom Hearts series and NEO: The World Ends With You>is funding Fumito Ueda's new game gen ATLAS>Only takes a 12% from devs meanwhile Gabe the jew takes a 30% cut>regularly gives you free games>Gabe was in the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs>Valve has been involved in three major high-profile class action lawsuits, The UK Antitrust & Overcharging Lawsuit, New York Attorney General Loot Box Lawsuit and Nationwide US Loot Box Gambling Class Action>Steam is letting games filled with malware onto their store and has no manual checks, using Steam puts your PC at riskhttps://gagadget.com/en/719403-fbi-arrests-21-year-old-who-hid-crypto-stealing-malware-in-eight-steam-games/This irrational hatred of Tim Sweeney has to stop. Tim isn't your enemy, Gabe is.
>>744228810>has been openly against PC gaming since consoles got big until Valve proved the PC market is resilient
>>744228810>all things that don't override the fact that Pragmata isn't on EGSSteam it is.
I don't know. If it was mostly from bringing gambling to teenagers, I don't think so.
>>744204204>had faith in the pc market >a market that was pretty much nonexistent outside WoW and MMO's >its faith and business tactic of ""just threat the costumer like a human being and don't sperg out in public"" is paid back in the mid 2010's once PC gayman starts to get noticed by the mainstream market Yeah, i don't see why he wouldn't deserve that money OP.
>>744228550What manga?
>>744204204Yes. He's rich because he created something people like.
>>744229540Have you thought about google image search?
>>744224540You forgot the part where the few retail stores who sold pc games were either Wow or a port from a sports game.
>>744204204We choose to give money, and he choses to spend our money. What's the problem? If you wanted a boat, you would have a boat.
>>744229625Now I always get 404 errors saying the image wasn't found on their servers.
>no no you personally have to help the environment! no id never use my own if i had it myself. funny how every argument for le billionaires is that they personally have to make everything better with their own money despite the fact thats our own leaders and governments job and what they are paid to do.
>>744213087>>744213340>My country>BuyingSo which Eastern European shithole that you played the absolute bottom of the barrel eurojank did you grow up in.
Why would you need more than 1 superyacht? Need a bigger and betterer one that can do deep see science? Buy one and sell the old one, still 1 superyacht. ???
>>744230126I got it immediately, even their shitty AI got it correct. Koibumi to 13-sai no Actress. Good on you for breaking google though.
>>744204204I just got back into l4d2 and apparently there's been a memory leak issue since the last stand update in 2020. Gaben please fix this fucking game
>>744204204I own a portion of that yacht!
>>744230316Thank you, anon. Can only assume it's ublock, but I don't want to disable it for jewgle.
>>744204976>No I didn't. I played CRPGs, Counter-Strike and Dota.Literally me, CS, AvP 2, RPGs, MMORPGs and RTS games were my shit back then.
>>744209213you will never be a billionaire lil bro
>>744230275Same reason they need multiple mansions.The superyacht is like a mobile mansion. You stay in one superyacht while you send the other to where you want to be next. Travel by plane between superyachts.also you can keep more mistresses and don't have to keep them in the same yacht.
>>744230950And you'll never be a woman.
>>744204204I mean, no, nobody really deserves this sort of wealth when so many others barely have anything, but that's life
>>744231143>im entitled to other people's money
>>744205452>>744204542Is this the most goy cuck answer possible? Yes it is? Why should he, he deserves the best for doing absolutely nothing.Steamdrones remind me of that jared leto cult.
>>744231370Creating the best game storefront that's also singlehandedly fixing the future of operating systems and software is absolutely nothing?
>>744204204Sure he deserves itGaming would be completely dead if not for SteamI am not looking forward to Gabe dying
>>744231370If making money from doing nothing is so easy then why arent you a billionaire?
>>744231058good i don't wanna be lmaoooyou'll still never be a billionaire
>>744231370Your not going to find many people here that are part of your socialist commie group. We dont care what people spend their own money on. We dont think people are evil for being rich.
>>744231690good i don't wanna be lmaoooyou'll still never be a woman
I wonder how mad timmy gets that his paid opposition to gaben never works on /v/
>>744228810>>helped the environment, between 2008 and 2019, Tim Sweeney has purchased and dedicated over 50,000 acres of North Carolina land to conservation, the most notable being the Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre natural area that contains more than 130 rare and threatened plants and wildlife species meanwhile Gabe is destroying the ocean with his fleet of yachtsTimmy did one good thing half a decade ago and he's been milking it ever since>>revolutionized game development with the Unreal EngineUnreal Engine 5 is a trainwreck>>funded the PC ports of the Kingdom Hearts series and NEO: The World Ends With YouNo proof of this happening>>is funding Fumito Ueda's new game gen ATLASAuteurslop that'll flop.>>Only takes a 12% from devs meanwhile Gabe the jew takes a 30% cut12% of 0 is 0.>>regularly gives you free gamesOld ass indies that nobody cares about any more.>>Gabe was in the Jeffrey Epstein flight logsComplete lie while Timmy went on a trip with Trump and worships Elon Musk>>Valve has been involved in three major high-profile class action lawsuits, The UK Antitrust & Overcharging Lawsuit, New York Attorney General Loot Box Lawsuit and Nationwide US Loot Box Gambling Class ActionTimmy had to pay half a billion dollars for manipulating children. >>Steam is letting games filled with malware onto their store and has no manual checks, using Steam puts your PC at riskEpic allows NFT games on their store.
disney, tencent, sony, and lego own < 50% of epic games.No such partial public ownership is known for valve.Who do you trust with the future of PC gaming? Valve or Epic?Yea im thinkin valve.
>>744231636Yeah, god forbid that everything wasn't digital, like valve intended to.
>>744204967>implying anyone in India has money and isn't seething 24/7 about not being white and getting to live in the 1st worldI'm sorry that my success upsets you but you don't get free handouts just because I'm white and make more money than I need.
He doesn't dip into our retirement accounts to use as collateral for a loan for it so he's at least better than most of them.
>>744204542ah yes the Phil Spencer approach
>>744204204y'know up until HL3 was confirmed never ever, I pictured Gabe sitting in his office at Valve HQ every day getting things done.lately everyone just talks about his yacht so I guess he's been chilling away from Valve forever now.
>>744204950they buy it to do whatever they like on international waters, thats why those are mobile multimantion villa- yahtsany rich guys who are into yahting buy 4 m wide max jahts so they can actualy fit into some wildeness / small port space not only main big ports
>>744204950Gaben buys yachts because he wants to be part of deep sea research Other richfags are trying to status signal and keep up with the Jones' because, like most people, they cant actually stand being by themselves with their thoughts. After a certain point theyre just spending money on wasted space and names so they can show off, if you're a naturally introverted or humble person it'll never make sense to you because you already have in your mind what you'd spend that money on to satisfy your time.
>>744232050Digital is objectively when you have the decentralized freedom to pirate anything you want if it comes to that. It's more convenient and will never got lost or break down. You can put anything you want on a harddrive and keep that bitch backed up on a cloud. That includes steam games, btw. The physical media debate is only an issue for console owners who are trapped with a single store that can be fucked with by the singular entity in control of it. Anti Steamies are just going to have to come up to a response to this point or nobody is ever going to listen to you, no matter how many threads you faggots create.
>>744209109If they do then why do games on EGS cost the same as on steam?
>>744228810>steam is full of malware and viruses!>shows one news article of a thirdworlder that was caught>meanwhile egs is 6% crypto and nft games>no review system so you can't tell if it's a thirdworlder nigger trying to scam youYou lost timmy.
>>744204313>>744204563What is this revisionist history? Pc gaming was never dead nor on the verge of dying. The only thing steam did was provide a more convenient direct to consumer model via digital distribution. Which in hindsight was a bad thing that killed physical media
>>744228810https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/2wY2hBRjdQaEZlMOjYz5dQ/
>>744204204Doesnt he own like 30 yahts? Isnt there a point where you kinda stop. Do they all just sit in port 99% of the time? Then again I guess the spending habits of billionaires is beyond me. You reach a point where you have de facto infinite money and burning it on yahts is a good a use as any.
>>744232578A friend of mine works at valve. Gabe is 100% checked out of the company and just collects a paycheck now. He’s working on a implantless neuralink competitor and doesn’t give a shit about video games.
>>744233261He'll bring up their price parity rule but ignore all the games that went Epic exclusive without lowering the price.
I found out that Gaben has been spending a lot of money and resources on funding deep sea exploration. Is this what the yachts are actually for?
Gaben is funding an important ship called the Borealis. It is an Icebreaker that is going to conduct groundbreaking research.
>>744236418>guise it was totally fine back then! you just get anally gaped by offline DRM instead! And it wasn't dying, even though most major publishers t the time were moving away from PC! revisionism i tell you, revisionism!just pirate the game little bro
>>744240802NTA but I remember buying orange box, CoH2, L4D2, Empire at war, and Sims 3 at gamestop and walmart. None of these games had DRM beyond a CD key that you could just sell to a friend. Zoomers never lived through 00s PC gaming so they think every game had securom or something and that Valve "saved" it when realistically Valve could have done nothing and PC gaming would have continued to be fine.
>>744204313>>744234937No one wanted a corporate entity to control gaming. Steam is stopping Japanese games, created awful policys in the User Agreement and they been sued enough to be contenders for League of Evil.They are the bad guys.
>>744240919>securomA lot of people don't even realize it wasn't the same for every game, early on it was a form of protection but didn't fuck things up like StarForce until the late 2000s when they could have limited activations or online authentication.
>>744204204>conveniently leave out the fact that the yacht is a science vesselI fucking hate ragebaiters
>>744206772People also forget that Gabe himself isn't living on these yachts. They are research vessels and Gabe has done more for scientific research than all global governments and all other independent researchers combined. All of this anti-Steam shit is paid for by Epic Games
>>744204563Pretty much yeah.
He should fucking buy Steam.com
>>744239075>>744239687>>744241272There is no evidence of him doing actual research for sea related science. There is no scientific team or peer reviewed studies. We only know that he brought a nonprofit organization, brought a robot submarine that holds the deepest world record, brought Yacht company and charged Noway nonprofits expense yacht.The interview is only talking about possible future plans. We know Gabe will not do it, just like HL3.
>>744241150Ok.
>>744241272>Gabe has done more for scientific research than all global governments and all other independent researchers combined.Can I get a source on that? I haven't seen anything come out of Gaben's research so I assume they're just labelled that way for tax purposes similar to what Elon Musk does with his companies.
>>744204204Gabe Newell has a private marine research fleet known to the science community as Inkfish.
>>744239687He does what he must, because he can. For the good of all of us.
>>744204204He's doing SCIENCE out there. Those are mobile, marine SCIENCE laboratories. It's very important.Also, yes he does deserve it for basically keeping vidya alive the last 10 years and bitchsmacking faggots with his platform's policies.
>>744241360>>744241415Inkfish doesn’t exist as a team or organization in the scientific community. There is no goal for Inkfish. There is no website or member. There is only Gabe with interviews talking about the name, never about what they plan on doing and never talking about members in the team.In short, it’s Gabe making shit up, as all billionaires do.
>>744241415>>744241592Because it's about tax breaks.
>>744241351>There is no scientific team or peer reviewed studies.How do you know that?
>Um gaben's superyachts are actually deep sea research and medical vessels he spends his free time trying to save the world you're tim sweeney if you insult him!I honestly find it hilarious how this "news" started flooding the internet after the steam deck and steam machine debacle. I wonder who GabeN's knows in the media to pull strings like this.
>>744241360nta but I looked a bit into it but Inkfish is a research services company, essentially it supports research group through the entire process. So not strictly researching themselves.
Even >>>/sci/ knows about Gaben's deep sea research expeditions. You guys are so dumb or pretending to be dumb.
>install steam>it slows down your computer>cry about the CEO instead of just uninstalling it???
>>744241686>pretending
Yeah looking more into it Inkfish isn't registered with any country or research organization, has no staff list, no website, and no money trail beyond "investing" in Gabe's super yacht for alleged research capabilities. The only thing we know for sure is that Gabe has two super yachts and spends the majority of his life living on them.
>>744240919it would not have 'died' but it would have become more and more irrelevant especially with the percieved problem of piracy making them view it as a unreliable market. what the consumer sees is different from what the publishers see, regardless of whether or not piracy was actually that detrimental to consumers purchasing newer copies of games, it does not change the fact that the publishers periceved it to be that damaging. id imagine that without steam, the trend of publishers trying to solve the problem by making their own online stores and going with online drm for their games would have accelerated and would have become even more cancerous than they already are now, and that would have slowly killed the PC as a platform, at least for major publishers.
>>744204204How? There are literally no games>salesoh nevermind.
>>744205438Legitemately dumb schizo people who got his news from twitter. There are barely any asian posters in 4chan let alone indians
>>744241567>>744241686>iTEiSxTTeAmInKFiSh>NothingIt’s all a lie anon, billionaires don’t care about fish. Just like how Microsoft Bill Gates foundation didn’t help kids or other people.>>744241648We should be easily able find paperwork or documents. Just like medical science, a person has to write something for the world to know. Keeping documents isn’t going to help Inkfish, there’s species not known to them. There’s possibility of errors in their work. The glory of saying “i found this” is too good to pass up on.
>>744241890>it would not have 'died' but it would have become more and more irrelevantThat's not true. There were more PC games on store shelves in the 00s than the 90s.As I said, you simply have not lived through the 90s-00s, which is why you think PC gaming was in a bad state and that Valve needed to "save" it.
>>744204967He created a fantastic product used by countless millions of people, so yeah he deserves it.
>>744204774>gives up his income to gaben for products that are already free>ur a commie lelno john, you are the commie
>>744240919You listed PC games and all western. Steam made the entire AAA industry support PC and a million Japanese devs who never touched the platform before 2009.
>>744204204>ever since the shovelware of Steam is running in the backgroundsaaaaaaar
>>744241952>We should be easily able find paperwork or documents.Right but you need to look for it to find it and I don't think you have. Will you be honest?
>>744204204If he published ownable media I probably wouldn't hate him as much. But as it turns out he's the founding father of killing media ownership so I will shitpost in his threads with no remorse.
>>744239687
>>744241890forgot to add but it would be a hub mostly for niche indie games as opposed to being a major platform like it is right now. it qould not have been the main focus and become more of a niche market for nerds
>>744242067Gabe didn't make the copyright law.
>Deserve
>>74424190199% of 4chan is indians now, it's our site and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>744242147DRM and copyright have nothing to do with ownership of media.
>>744242012You're trying to move the goalposts again. PC gaming wasn't dying. It was objectively growing. I'm not here to speculate whether it would reach the same heights as Steam (personally I think another distributor would take their place eventually), just point out the zoomer perception that Valve "saved" PC gaming.
>>744204204Wheres Luigi when you need him ?
>>744205438>What is this mind disease going around 4chan where so many people have become psychopathically obsessed with India?Remember how everyone used to complain about Chinese people in the west? Who is China's greatest competitor in the 3rd world (besides the US)
>>744204204>I feel like my notebook has gotten slower ever since the shovelware of Steam is running in the background.Good morning, sir!
>>744242174No dumbass there are only 10% of total international users let alone Indians. Already confirmed by 4chan admins like after the hack
>>744242179if you borrow a book form the library and never return it you don't own it.
>>7442422744chan admins are also indian, grapeape is indian.
>>744204204Steam literally does nothing, and wins because of it. If it really was a monopoly, GoG would’ve crashed and burned like Origin and uShit, but they’re successful too.
>>744242308Youre the dumb schizo guy i was talking about. Take meds and touch grass mate.
>>744242192Yep I remember several different websites like Direct2Drive or whatever that were acting as storefronts selling anything from AAA to "indie" games. Of course none of them had good clients yet, but the idea was still there. But I don't think it's zoomers like you. It's probably just Valve cultists who never went beyond the steam ecosystem so they think only Valve was looking at digital distribution and only Valve could save PC games. In reality if Valve didn't do it, someone else would. Worse come to worse PC gaming stays physical for another decade.
>>744205438Americans are so insecure after getting btfo by the east especially ChinaYes i am Proud Indians !!
>>744241976but so you think would those shelves be as stocked in the 2010s? i'm talking about the long term trajectory, even without steam, publishers will still try to make their own online stores to solve the 'issue' of piracy and the measures they would have taken would be far worse than what sresm provided, and if you want to know what would have been the end result of that storefront war, you only need to look at the current state of streaming sites and their aggressive monetization schemes.
>>744242339>GoG would’ve crashed and burned like Origin and uShit, but they’re successful too.Turns out when you have something to offer and aren't utter garbage does wonders
>>744242291If you buy a book you own it. Pretty crazy stuff. You don't touch grass much, do you?
>>744242060Even AI can’t find it, research specific algorithms search engines can’t find it. There is only interviews of Gabe talking about future plans. You are more likely to play deadlock on release than read a published article from Inkfish.There is no team, there is no goal, years of inactivity and the moment Gabe act it’s when it got recent history. This is Umbrella Corp evil stuff that we hate.
>>744242429*steam
>>744242485It all depends if the research mission is complete and ready for a paper. You have no idea of the dates of any of this and assume the worst.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kOQnXxWqI
>>744204204Why leftist communist hate gaben so much?
>>744242485 >its not a public facing org so it must be evilpublic corpo mentality
>>744204950>>744206285>>744206579>>744211596>>744212568>>744218641>>744219267>>744228320>>744228779>>744232618It's a hit piece. All of Gabe's boats are literally research vessels used to ferry scientists around and launch submarines and shit.
>>744204542Only losers make gamesReal men breed underage girls on a yacht
>my steam library is intactLuv gabeN. the saviour of PC gaming, more yachts to him>my steam library is removed from meFuck himHe'll be a good guy until he isn't. Things would be far worse under any other corpo. Or it'd be nothing but disparate indies without any corporate presence, which wouldn't be all bad.
>>744242429I can't predict that far in advance a reality that doesn't exist. All I will say isa) PC gaming wasn't "dead" in the 00s like you claimb) PC gaming was actually growing unlike you claimc) PC gaming had an ever expanding storefront presence than in the 90sd) DRM was rare, in like 5% of all PC games, and the biggest offenders got tons of push back on mainstream media like IGN and GameFAQse) There were several online digital distribution platforms trying to do the same thing as Valve so it is not something they inventedf) Indie games weren't big yet, but they did exist even in Japan which had its own digital distributors like dlsiteTo clarify, I think Steam does a lot of good "overall" and pushed the PC vidya industry forward. I just have to call out any underage who keeps spreading lies about the state of gaming before Valve came along as if they were some sort of savior. It's important to do your research if you want to talk about history and present yourself as an authority.
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?Yes. He created a platform to resolve a maladie he diagnosed first during a time the industry at large ignored PC gaming, has remained in private control of it instead of going public and has reaped the benefits.You're in no place to question his greatness and fruits of his labor. A society must strive to create individual excellence, not collective mediocrity, or elitist rot. Merit above all.
>>744204204Remember when news articles used to be written by human beings and publications so you could actually check who wrote them and who owns the publication
>>744242684>d) DRM was rare, in like 5% of all PC games, and the biggest offenders got tons of push back on mainstream media like IGN and GameFAQsEVERY game had a CD keyEVERY game forced the disk to be in drive#1 reason i was more than happy to buy digital: convenience
Valve can become the next capcom and make different variety of high quality games but they won't Just look at deadlock, such a dogshit mobaslop
>>744242438You bought a license
>>744204204He's got money. If he wants to throw it at yachts, his prerogative.If you're asking if he deserves money, perhaps. Certainly more than some dumbass who comes on /v/ to whine that his notebook - a fucking notebook - has performance issues, and it's all the fault of the fat man.
>>744204204>Does he deserve it?more than the Rothschilds
>>744204542all his yachts are research vessels
>>744204204I know hes at war with the Epsteins but how many yachts do you need?
>>744204204Still evidence he owns a yacht.
>>744242814I don't care about their games
>>744242803I don't consider CD(keys) the same as always online DRM and I would actually prefer to still have my media tied to what I physically own rather than go through steam servers, but sure you do you.
>>744242896Valve or capcom?
>>744242876Sorry, not Epsteins, I meant Rothschilds. Same thing though.
>>744204204Unironically Steam is based>great access gateway for PC gaming>amazing sales over the years that BTFO anything console babbies would get>able to access games I bought >20 years agoNot even trying to be a billionaire boot licker, but it just works.
>>744242832Pardon?
>>744242814>capcom >high quality gamesAnon, this isnt the 00s, or even the 10s, anymore.
>>744204859As someone who has actually worked as a merchant mariner....lmfao
>>744204204We still angry that he refuses to bow the knee?
>>744230521nice collection of renting licenses
>>744242832>you didn't buy a book you bought a license to read the bookNo I bought a book which is licensed, as is all media.
its a mission oriented vessel for scientific research so i dont mind it as much.
>>744242956>>amazing sales over the years that BTFO anything console babbies would getMaybe back in 2012. Steam sales are about the same as regular console sales these days. Only exceptions are indies, which have a bigger presence on Steam as they are desperate to break through.
Don't care about your shitty storefront Where are the games?
>>744242412>indian>praising China in any way shape or formPAKI!
>>744223824>>744224160And you don't need your computers.Give them up.
>>744205438They got bored of doing the same thing with trannies so they switched to India. Give it five years and they'll switch to blenders or Tasmanian devils.
Why is life unfair to this degree?
>>744242562>>744242604The best anyone can do at sea, including deep research is 7 months until food runs out and filter water becomes a health hazard. Not including theoretical scenarios like earthquakes, hurricanes, thunderstorms and human mental impact. Just people on sea with enough food, solar energy and best water cycling for all team members.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X23002786So unless you’re claiming they won’t find anything. Won’t publish anything and lose time on a dead area they been researching. There’s absolutely no reason not to publish their failure story so future generations don’t waste time. Just like future medical professionals don’t waste time on blood sucking bugs because past doctors didn’t do a good job at it.
>>744242608This.Even with /v/'s usual level of retardism, I'm shocked that so many people just ate this journo shit up without question.
The truth is that if you have a nice enough ship there is literally no reason to set foot on land other than going to port every once in a while to do touristy shit. Gabe is yachtdrunk. I've seen it many times. Just look at how dresses and presents himself now, it's entire personality. He has a fever that will cause him to keep buying yachts one after another for no other reason than he just wants to. The research grift and occasionally researcher taxi'ing is just to get tax breaks and make his life feel exciting every now and then.
>>744243357That video is from March. Unknown how long they are out there or if their research is complete. You have no point.
>>744243619Forgot my pic
>>744243619There is no evidence he has a yacht.
>>744205438Have you been outside in the last few years?
>>744204204>billions upon billions of dollars in half a year>only hires one contractor to maintain TF2
>>744205438It's just another in a long line of "I can't defend my position properly so I'll just call you [current boogeyman]" copouts.
>>744216567>India>indian with a capital Ijeet hands wrote this postits only jeets who would capitalize india, its only jeets who calls others "brown" (everyone else just says jeet), despite what jeets say and that they aren't jeets but some "other" type of jeet, you are all jeets
>>744243652They uploaded their current work and you say that doesn’t count. If team Inkfish did exist, they would also say stuff about boring every day marine research. This isn’t a new concept, stuff like this existed before World War 1 & 2 stopped it. Papers of unknown and normal people recording sea that help current scientists is more than enough to help.
>>744243709How can mirrors be real if your eyes aren't real
>>744243658He's morphing into Shawn Crahan.>>744243884>its only jeets who would capitalize indiaGood grammar is Indian now. You fucking retards are beyond help.
>>744204563Brown thirdworlders seething at this post.They couldn't own current gen consoles, because they were extremely expensive to obtain in their shithole countries.
>>744228272This, I would much prefer more billionaires be like Gave, than more be like Soros, and use their money to actively make things worse by destroying my country.
>>744243962OP is a yacht from image search.
>>744242684a) my claim isnt that they're "dead" in the 00s, its that it would have declined massively in relevance in the 10s because of the trend of the online store and how predatory they tended to be especially at the time. it would still existm but as i said, it would be a very niche market, and very different from what the PC landscape is now.b,) sure, if you compared the 00s to the 90s, but again, the rise of digital is inevitable and i'd argue with how much fearmongering there was in the publishing space, they would have pivoted harder to those online drm solutions and focused more on consoles as opposed to the approach they have now. what im arguing isn't the total death of PC, but how it would have been treated by the publishers, ie, it wouldn't be a major platform for their flagship games and be sidelined in favour of consoles.c.) that comes with more people buying pcs, yes, but that growth would have been less explosive than what we currently have now, and I'd argue it would have been a lot more stunted without major publishers fuelling that growth.d.) Its 5%, until its not. and publishers would do so regardleas of pushback until it becomes the standard. while i wouldn't go so far as to argue that all PC games would have online DRM (which is unrealistic), a vast majority of the big ones would have under their publisher's online stores. again, loom at the streamer wars as an example of how anal that would be.e.) is it something Valve invented? no, of course not. nobody serious is arguing that. but those solutions would look less like steam and gog and more windows live and ea origin aka cancerf.) i wasn't arguing they wouldn't exist, i said that PC would have been far more indie and far smaller than what it is currently, i'd probably rven go further and say it would have been a far more fragmented landscape than what it is currently.
>>744204563Maybe if you were Brazilian
>>744243884from how obsessed you are with indians living rent free inyour head i must conclude that you zre a canadian
"deserve" is such a fucking gay ass wordhe earned everything by doing everything opposite of his competitors
What competitors
>>744244503EA storeGFWLUbisoft storeEpic GamesAmazon GamesBlizzardthe list goes on and on and on
>>744243884are you fucking retarded?
>>744204204Good morning sir.
>>744244590First party distro stores aren't the same niche as general distro like Steam
The irony of a billionaire actually spending billions of dollars of his own money to better the world only to be attacked relentlessly by other billionaire jews and billionaire competitors that only wish to enrich themselves more is not lost
>>744244947>a billionaire actually spending billions of dollars of his own money to better the worldand who would that be
>>744205438I know an Indian got caught copy-pasting his shill instructions on /k/ once, which was really funny.
>>744204204If this guy ever sets up a supranational safe haven for free thinkers and a private military to back it up with firepower, I'm the fourth thousanth guy to sign up.
I dont even have steam installed
It's somewhat funny that the only reason we're getting multiplats nowadays isn't because PC is a powerhorse, but rather China is pretty much PC-only and publishers can't ignore that market these days.
>>744204204Steam is easily the greatest AiO software of all time and its free to use, yes that slick mother fucker deserves a megayacht
>>744204950>Wake up>Hm. I want to go to France>Message EA: Get my euro boat to France, and get my private jet ready to take me there>Car takes you to airport (or helicopter), jet to france, french airport helicopter onto yacht>All your clothes, games, porn and food is there exactly how you like it with a stuff who exist (or avoid existence) to make your life easy It is pretty much peak luxury. Your own private hotel, anywhere in the world.
>>744204204Yeah, Gabe and GoG do, but not ms, not modern Nintendo, not modern Sony, not apple, and not tim.
>>744204313>>744204563>acquiring an online payment company to control the sales platform. The end has already begun for Valve; you dumb followers just haven't realized it yet.
i think even when im a billionaire ill just charter a yacht, sounds like a massive hassle to own.
>>744246292Billionaires do not 'do' anything. They say what they want and their assistant makes it happen.
>>744244216I ain’t reading all that
>>744246543I read the first letter of each line so I can help summarize for you>a v b a c d s e f
>>744246292>sounds like a massive hassle to own.If you've got money for a yacht and crew you've got money to pay some pointyheads to manage it.
>>744204950Top tier mansion completely isolated from people who annoy you that you can take to all the best cities and countries around the world whenever you want
>>744243884This is the most retarded post I’ve read this week.
>>744230950And you'll never be happy being such a jealous little bitch.
>>744204204The money could've gone to save Africa. Gabe is a murderer.
You dumb niggers are incorrectly using the word shovelware againGet it right or don't use the word at all you stupid fucking retards
>>744230950Damn, so I'm like 99.9% of the planet? Wow, how terrible. I should spend my days ranting and raving about people who have more money than me.
What do you even need a yacht for, let alone a SUPERyacht? Just fucking go on a damn cruise fuck. What a waste of fucking money
>>744249051It's a research vessel with a deep sea sub. Newell apparently has the same aquatic autism James Cameron has.
>>744204204I wonder what a bored day would be like for GabeN
>>744204204I really don't get yacht people. What's so fun about being on a boat?
