https://archive.ph/EjC06>The first six months of the year were Steam's biggest, thanks to continued growth in back-catalogue sales as well as blockbuster new releases like Forza Horizon 6 and Resident Evil Requiem. As industry analysts Alinea Analytics report, September was another record breaker based on their estimated figures.>"Steam generated $1.7 billion in September 2026," Rhys Elliott, Alinea's head of market analysis, wrote, "the platform's best September to date, up 13% on the previous record, September of last year.">Wardogs was the smash hit new release of September, though Elliott noted the "hype cycles and virality" of comparably leftfield surprises Arc Raiders and Helldivers 2 were more sustained. "By this point, Helldivers 2 had made $130M (26.5% more than Wardogs) on Steam, while Arc Raiders had made about $125M (21.2% more).">Still, Wardogs generated an estimated $86.9M on Steam in September. Elliott highlights Onimusha: Way of the Sword ($30.4M), The Blood of Dawnwalker ($26.9M), Bodycam ($24.2M), and EA Sports FC27 ($20.7M) as the other big new launches on Steam that month.>"Steam also had its best-ever Q3," Elliott wrote, "generating $5.5B (up 12% on last year). That brings the 2026 total to $16.5B so far, a 13% increase from the $14.5B Steam made in the first nine months of 2025. Given the insane release slate for the rest of the year, it's safe to say Steam's yearly revenue will blow past $20B for the first time."How do consoles survive? It seems like all you need these days is a PC and some sort of chinkheld.
>>748878884>How do consoles survive?Huh? You can jailbrake your ps5 and install steam if you want.
>How do consoles survive?by becoming even more parasitic middlemen than steam is and generate 50 billion in revenue
It should be illegal to not putted your game on steam at this point with achievement support and trading cards too
>>748879109But consoles already are thatUnlike steam, their DRM actually limits you hard and they offer basically nothing
>>748879109You can play your Steam games without Steam.You cannot play your console games without your console.So I guess consoles already are more parasitic.
>>748879032Japan's market literally did this when sony killed physical. KWAB. I welcome all my sony hating ricecells into the steam chud fold.
>>748878884Why do you still need 30% of all game sales then Gabe.
>>748878884Damn that is pretty good news. Good for them, steam is really the best thing PC has to offer.
>>748879303>You can play your Steam games without Steamno you cant
>>748878884Based. They deserve it.
>>748879303>You cannot play your console games without your console DRMFixed that for youWhen you buy something on steam, you get the right to download it off steam and have steam keep some data for you That's where their jurisdiction ends When you buy something on a console, you specifically only get the right to run it how they want you to run it, all you can do is press X/A to use your license, everything else is made off limits by the overbearing DRM that runs so deep that it necessitates a specific, locked down OS
>>748879595What is piracy?>>748879303What is emulators?
>>748878884>GOG did double thatKEKYPOW
>PEOPLE WILL UNIRONICALLY AND COMPLETELY AS IF THEY ARENT REDDIT, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS -TOTAL JEW MONOPOLY HANDING OUT TOTAL DRM FILLED GAMES (THAT PILFER OFF OF OTHERS)- AND WILL JUST SHITPOST AND POST AND JUST SAY "YES THANK YOU VALVE KIKE RULER CORPORATIONS... YES, MY TIME I SPENT BEING A SLAVE(WORKING) SHOULD GO TO A MADE UP CONCEPT (A COMPANY) AND -I 100%- AM JUST SUPPORTING THISUNIRONICALLY PLEASE GO BACK TO PLEBBITWHY DO YOU DO SHITPOST LIKE THIS?
>>748879671Expressly disallowed by console corpos and they're updating security so you can't do it
>>748879716Why are you so angry? Is it because you're poor?
>>748879671Things that the average /v/tard can't comprehend in 2026
>>748879716>UNIRONICALLYonly reddit zoomulattos use this nonsensical word.go back.
>>748879595>Open steamless>Remove steamstub DRM from exe (if the exe even bothered with it)>Open goldberg>Replace steam dll with one modified to not look for a steam clientWow it's that easy, now I can play my steam games without a steam client
>>748879653It's the same end result, Anon.The console itself acts as DRM, that is magnitudes of level more parasitic than anything Steam does with their retarded ass DRM.>>748879671>What is piracy?you don't even need piracy.Many games can be started literally without Steam intervention through the executable.The others you just need a goldberg fix.
>>748878884>Still can't invest money to make hl3 or anything that's not online slop moba shit
>>748879739>>748879762>>>>MMMM YESS I LOVE SUCKING COCK. PLEASE TAKE MY HARD EARNED RESOURCES (LMAO AT YOUR WAGESLAVING YOUR LIFE AWAY AS I LIVE RENT FREE) AND TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOMS. YES I AM REAL AND THINKING PERSON, THATS ME!! I AM NOT AN NPC REDDITOR THATS A TOTAL KUCK KIKE, THATS A GENUINE NEGATIVITY ON THE WORLDKYS DONT NIGGER SHITPOST ME LOSERS
>>748878884I funded that. Feels good man.
>>748879716go kill yourself tim sweeney. I've been reported/"banned" and uplifted from those bans whenever an uppity nigger, jeet or karen got mad at my "hatespeech" on steam. Gaben has never done anything wrong to me. he gets my fucking support cock garbling homosexual.
>>748879854Same. I hate public companies so much it's unreal.
>>748879843Calm downSteam offers the best gaming distribution service and none of your buzzwords can change it
>>748879843So you're poor? Is that it?
>>748879889>YES PLEASE I LOVE BEING USED BY A BIG HUGE COMPANY>pLEAESE I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MODERN CORPORATIONISM (OR EVEN MY OWN WELL BEING)>LE GAME LE GOOD!!!!LMAO...
>>748879936DON'T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME
>>748879936>I VOLUNTARILY BOW DOWN... BECAUSE OF LE SERVICE!!!LMAO, YOU CAN LITERALLY STEAL EVERY GAME FOR FREE WITH NO ONE COMING AFTER YOU, BUT HERE YOU ARE, REDDITMAN LITERALLY SAYING YES YES PROMOTE THE MEGACORPORATION!!!! THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS!!!KYS TOTAL PIECE OF SHIT KUCK NIGGER. YOUARENOTAGOODGUYYOU ARE FODDER AND TELL OTHERS TO BE IT. FUCK YOU
>>748879948>IM NOT POOR BUT IM SUPPORTING THE MEGACORPORATION THAT IS 1000000X BIGGER THEN MEKUCK MORE, REDDIT WEAK TRASH
>>748880016>YOU CAN LITERALLY STEAL EVERY GAME FOR FREESo you're poor. Spending a few minutes salary on a game is no big deal for people in America.
>>748879954I never had an issue with people making money, I'm not a retarded communist like you. suck to suck nigger. definitely the same anon who keeps spamming those "kill all nazi" threads: you aren't fooling anyone Blaustein cocksucker.
>>748880016This melty is embarrassing my man Hope it's a false flag
>>748878884no wonder the Rothschild is coming at it
>>748880073>>748880116>>748880130>I SUPPORT THE MEGACORPORATION UNIRONICALLYWHY ARE YOU ON THIS WEBSITE? GO BACK
>>748879701Gog got sold off by cdpr for about 0.1% of that
>>748880116The main anti-Steam schizo gets really mad that Gabe has yachts, because money he spent (if any) is still his and he can dictate what Gabe does with it.>>748880152Picrel, poorfag.>>748880180Was mocking GOGlems, ackshually. They're lucky to get over my monthly salary in profit yearly.
>>748880152you are the one that's a redditor. Steam isn't a megacorp, its a privately owned mom and pop shop that got rich as fuck by hiring the right people. publicly traded corporations like Google, Sony, Microsoft and Apple are correct enemies you should direct your hatred towards: Not Gaben.
>>748880230>competition is... le bad!
>>748880230UR AN NPC BRO AND A NEWFAG (WHICH YOU DONT KNOW HOW I KNOW)ALL OF YOU FAGGOTS ARE NPCSDONT REPLY OR ACT NORMAL TO ME, THANK YOU. YOU ARE LITERALLY KUCK KIKES AND I AM STRONGER AND GENUINELY BETTER THEN YOU. YOUR WEAK AND POINTLESS OPINIONS/RHETORIC WHICH YOU ABASH ME WITH CAN BE CONSIDERED HUMAN, BUT YOU ARE JUST A SIMPLE NPC AND WHEN THE GREAT AWAKENING HAPPENS AND ALL PEOPLE BECOME SENTIENT YOU WILL DIE FOR YOU ARE NO LONGER ARE A CONCEPT, ONLY A FAGGOT PUSSY REDDITOR SHITPOSTING ON A MONGOLIAN BASKET WEAVING FORUM LIKE A KUCK>>748880130>>748880116>>748880073FUCKING BEYOND FUNNY HOW PUSSY YOU ARE FAGGOTS
>>748878884Why is this good news? Why should I care?
>>748880301>types like a zoomer and having a meltie.watch this, this one killes the pest: pst: my foreskin is intact unlike your penis.
>>748880271>UM ACTUALLY STEAM ISNT A BILLIONAIRE THEY ONLY HAVE 999 MILLION DOLLARSMAN, HOW YOU TREAT WOMEN MUST BE SAD, COMPARITIVE HOW YOU VIEW CORPORATIONS WITH YOUR MONEY
>>748880332Its good for Valve dron3s(this is filtered to valvebro btw) I guess.
>>748880278There's competition for Steam, but they don't actually want to compete. They just want you to have a worse experience and give them money.Remember when Walmart got real big and other stores were shutting down left and right? Kroger, Publix, and others hung in there. Remember when Amazon got big and stores were shutting down left and right? Walmart, Kroger, Publix, and other stores hung in there. They wanted to compete. They carved niches. GOG at least has a niche, despite the overall service being worse. Epic, Ubisoft, and EA run their stores because they're entitled. You should buy from them just because they say so.
>>748880337U R AN NPCWHY EVEN PRETEND, DEMON?
>>748880348>>748880379its a foidbrained tranny, lmfao point and laugh everyone! women have three real jobs:>laundromat.>microwave oven.>walking and talking incubator.get mad.
>>748880301>URFaggot.>>748880379>U RFaggot. R U D 1 2 C 4 A B J?>>748880337Imagine having a penis that all women find unattractive.
G*mers love being shit eaters so they will keep getting shit. Total G*mer Death, death to all g*mers, to the last child.
>>748880426They think its a cute penis and want to touch it, you are just a sad and pathetic bitch.
>>748880424>>748880426>NPC WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE I AM EXPLICITLY CALLING THEM AN NPC AND JUST SHITPOSTS AND INSULSTS MEURANNPCI KEEP SAYINGYOU ARE A TOTAL PIECE OF SHITAND YOU WONT LISTENI -------------------------------------------------------KNOW----------------------------------- YOU ARE BELOW MEYOU ARE BELOW THE AVERAGE LINE -------LITERALLY------ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I THINK AND HAVE SAID THAT, JUST DONT INSULT ME.
>>748879303No you can't that's a straight-up lie. Also until you can remove DRM from steam games with one click, like make MKV does. I will not buy steam games. It doesn't exist.Steam hasn't solved the service problem by definition because people still pirate en masse and it's not economically motivated.
>>748880478I won't listen to a psych ward patient with zero coherence.
>>748880016>YOU CAN LITERALLY STEAL EVERY GAME FOR FREEThe thread isn't about piracy you double nigger.Do you also sperg out when going out with your friends to a restaurant by bitching you could make a steak at home?
>Alinea Analytics
>>748880502>No you can't that's a straight-up lieYou literally can with thousands of games, nigger.You can just start the executable, and Steam won't magically turn on.You know nothing.
>>748880503I INSULTED YOU SO HARD YOU CANT REPLY TO ME BECAUSE YOU LITERALLY THINK IM INSANE? LMFAOYOURE A DEMON NPCIM ABOVE YOU, YOU CRYBABY COCKSUCKER>MUH STEAM>MUH CORPORATIONSYOURE A CHILD.>>748880517>TELL YOU LITERALLY YOU CAN GET THINGS EASIER THEN WHAT IS GIVEN>NOOOOOOO YOU ARE SPERGING!!!!! NOOOOOOO, YOU MUST SUFFER FOR CORPORATIONS AND MONEY!!!!!!RABBI?
>>748880464No women like the worm look. They like mushrooms because they want to be Maria Mario.>>748880478Steam is the only way to play games like a heterosexual.>>748880502What about Steam games that have no DRM? You can literally just copy those elsewhere without a copy of Steam and run them.>>748880517Those people exist on >>>/ck/>WHY WOULD YOU GO TO X RESTAURANT WHEN YOU COULD MAKE BORSCHT AT HOME BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER AND BETTER FOR YOUlike https://warosu.org/ck/thread/22228456#p22228464https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
>>748880585insulted? I'm laughing at you, not with you retard, take meds jew. all of you foidbrained trash are just mentally ill schizoids.
>>748880648>misplaced the DRM free link. meant to put that in the reply to >>748880517
>>748878884>Rhys Elliott, Alinea's head of market analysisCan anyone explain to me why people believe this shit and many other "analytics" from this nigger? He popped up last year on twitter,uses AI both for graphs and data and he uses sites like steamdb,psntrophies and trueachievements as basis of his data. Why the actual fuck people believe in everything that faggot shits out on twitter? At least Circana has contacts of retailers but this is geniuenly retarded.
>>748880648EAT SHIT KUCKAGAIN, YOU CAN LITERALLY -------STEAL------ THE FUCKING GAMES, WITH NO PENALTIES>>748880674>DECRIES ABOUT FOIDS LIKE SOME TOTAL LOSER EVEN THO I GAVE NO INDICATION IM A FEMALEWOW BRO YOURE A TOTAL MYSOGINIST LOSER NPC WITH NO REAL GENUINE WORTH BUT HERE YOU ARE BREATHING? NIGGER IM 10X SMARTER THEN YOU. DO YOU THINK I DONT KNOW THIS AND/OR IM FUCKING STUPID? STOP JOKING NPC FUCK
>>748880680I give up. I'm officially retarded.
steam is releasing these type of PR statements (they did the same last year) because jews want to give the impression the industry is collapsing and crashing, that there's an 'emergency'.Gabe doing this is counter ops to that idea and reminder to leftists that it's their woke slop being rejected and losing money, not 'everyone'.Just already in the last 30 days the following have been poorly received with problems and have flopped or will flop:Wolverine, Silent Hill: Townfall, Ace Combat 8 and Gears of War E day (releasing in 3 days). Leftists can only reference Baldurs Gate 3 (2023) and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 as their 'woke win' games.
>>748880562>You literally can with thousands of games, nigger.>You can just start the executable, and Steam won't magically turn on.>You know nothing.Amount of games that dont use steamworks api by default is insanely small not even close to "thousands" you retard. You're the one who knows nothing.
>>748880726I'm not worried about penalties. Money is basically free. I just buy games because it's easier.>IT'S EASY FOR ME CAPS LOCK CAPS LOCKShow me your fastest warez download.
>>748880716its literally akin to trusting an article that says "x policies are hurting voters of y." when the article's writers are opinionated opposite-thinkers and they are on a partisan news paper. just like how treating ISW as legitimate non-biased source for Ukraine-Russia War development is just straight up diabolical what they feed to the bots. lmfao. they didn't even want to admit about Russia's latest capabilities about bombing Kiev non-stop and making them into a big joke number.
>>748880726you are x10 smarter than me yet you are poor? where's your achievements in life nigga? you bitch ass, lmfao. get these plebians out already they are poorfaggot bums that don't want to work or get richer they just want everyone else to suffer because they are retarded but others aren't.
>>748880745Steam never gives raw data or releases statements like these. This is by some random AI twitter using bum calling himself Alinea Analytics. Good to know you're a retarded nigger.
>>748880765NAH YOU CAN FUCK OFF KIKEGO BACK TO PLEBBITWAGIE PIECE OF SHITYOU WILL DIE, NPC. YOU ARE NOT SENTIENT.
>>748879936>the best gaming distribution serviceIt's torrent
>>748880745Why would someone do that, just be a mentally ill lunatic on the internet. I hope you one day find the help you need.
>>748879716The ass pain from the Chinese bots is delicious they really thought they were going to stroll in with Timmy and take over. Nope. Go back to your chinkslop gacha factory.
>ea came crawling back>ubisoft came crawling back>gearbox came crawling back>microsoft came crawling backtick tock sony
>>748880813>WAGIE LITERALLY LIVES IN A SOCIETY AND ACCEPTS IT AND WRITES ME A PARAGRAPH ABOUT ITPLEB LMAO. YOURE GONNA DIE NPC. YOU ARENT REAL FAGGOT. YOU AINT SENTIENT AND YOU GONNA DIE FOR IT.
>>748880852>SUCH A DERIVATIVE POST I CANT INFER IF HE IS SHITTALKING ME OR NOTBUDDY, DONT SHITPOST
>>748880830>Slower >Less functionality than steam>Reliant on third worlders hostingNah
>>748880871because the system works as intended: you are not part of the system if you can't figure out 2+2=4 and that's why you aren't making money. literally chimps have a higher iq than you.
>>748880829I'm pretty sure everyone will die. That's how life works.>>748880871You're literally proclaiming being poor is a good thing. I eat steak 4-5 times a week. I have people mow my lawn and clean my house for me. I can buy video games without weighing the purchase in my mind. You're poor and miserable, hence all the FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK RETARD FUCK SHIT FUCKITY BUTTAPPLE FUCK talk. If you were happy, you could type calmly.>>748880926Sounds like GOG.
>>748880926Can you help me find xenoblade on steam?
>>748880716That is why Sony didn't praise or do PR fluff for Wolverine's sopposed 'success' despite third parties on the net giving out large suspect numbers.Sony can't get away with lying and doesn't want to risk it, but third parties can. Sony's silence is basically telling on themselves that Wolverines alleged numbers are bullshit.
>>748880926>SUPPORTING A SYSTEM THATS TOTAL DEATH>BEING A SOCIETAL SHEEP>>>REDDIT>>748880936>I AM A SLAVE :)LMAO@URLIFE LOSER
>>748880967STOP TALKING TO ME NPC IF YOU CANT READ MY POSTS. YOU LIVE IN A SOCIETY, KUCK.
>>748880757https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_SteamI count almost 2 thousand games.
>>748880991you are the slave you can't even live freely without rage.
>>748880972No system or store has everything, and Xenoblade is like Tendie Fantasy IX (especially IX, since it's for pedophiles).>>748880991It's funny how you're limited by your poverty in what you're able to do (what to eat, what to wear, where to go, what games you can play), but people with money who have none of those limitations are slaves.>>748881030I wasn't talking to your NPC, Seamus.>>7488810412 thousand isn't thousands, sweaty. :3
>>748880991All your posts will get deleted btw
>>748881057>SOCIETY SHEEP>IS A NEWFAGGOT AND DOESNT KNOW ABOUT THE "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY MEME">DESPOUSING ME FOR JUST ATTACKING HIS FOUNDATIONLMAO...>>748881063>NPC STARTS POSTING RANDOM SHIT, MIND AND PROGRAMMING UTTERLY BROKEN FROM ME JUST SHITTALKING HIMLMAO...>>748881073>M-MODS WILL BEAT YOU UP!!!!LMAO... GO BACK...
>>748881063>2 thousand isn't thousands
SHUT YOU CORPORATION COCKSUCKERS UPPIECE OF SHIT DREGS, LIVING AND FEEDING ON THIS DISGUSTING HEAP OF PRETEND LIVING WE CALL SOCIETYYOU HAVE NO MIND AND BLINDLY CONSUMING, FEEDING ITS BODY MOREFUCKING PURE TRASH
>>748881306You'd be happier if you had a nice $250 pair of socks.
>>748881306id give money to valve for free honestly. their the good guys around here
>>748881326HOLY CANCERWHY POST THIS SHITPOST, KIKE?>MUH FUCKING SOCKSAND YOUR SKIN COLOR MUSST BE BLACK THERE, JAMAL
>>748881336YOURE A STUPID BITCH AND NEED TO GO TO REDDIT AND NOT BE ON THIS SITEIT ISNT FOR YOU LOSER
Post 'em.
>>748881306i just spend 10 bucks on dlc and a deeply discounted game on steamhow does that make you feel anon
>>748881523BALLSUCKR
>>748878884Alinea Analytics is not trustworthy since they were caught lying about Konami sales such as Silent Hill f>Alinea Analytics deleted their tweets regarding Silent Hill f, Silent Hill 2, and Metal Gear Solid Delta after official sales figures from Konami exposed massive discrepancies in their tracking models>The data firm relies on tracking methods that critics argue are heavily skewed toward Steam metrics or game review counts. This approach caused them to drastically underestimate console and PlayStation 5 sales numbers>Alinea's Estimate: The firm initially tracked the PlayStation 5 launch sales of Silent Hill f at an incredibly low 264,000 units.>The Reality: Konami officially announced that Silent Hill f shattered expectations, selling over 1 million copies within its first 24 hours and hitting over 2 million units worldwide within 6 months
>>748881545
>>748881540HOW DO YOU THINK IT MAKES ME FEEL IDIOT?ITS MORALLY, REALISTICALLY, CONSIDERABLY AND MANY MORE FUCKING WORDS WRONG TO BE INVOLVED AND DO IT. YOU MEANDERING ME A QUESTION LIKE IM A CAGE NIGGER (WHICH IS, IN ACTUALITY, NOT KNOWING THE IRE OF THE BOARD IS WHAT IS DESTROYING 4CHAN, BECAUSE YOU ARE LITERALLY A NORMALFAGGOT. THIS BOARD HAS A WAY AND WHIM AND YOU JUST POSTING, NOT PERTAINING TO IT, LEAVES YOU AS AN INTERLOPER AND FURTHERMORE, AN ENEMY, SO CONSIDER YOURSELF NEXT WISELY, FAGGOT, BECAUSE I TOLD YOU THE TRUTH, IF YOU HAVE THE MIND TO EVEN DISCERN MY POST. ITS PROBABLY ABOVE YOU
>>748881593YOU THINK YOU BRAGGING FOR BEING A SLAVE IS SOMEHOW HONORABLE? YOURE A GUINEA PIG, BOYI LIVE RENT FREEKYS
>>748881668Incidentally, I live rent free as well. I own my apartment.
>>748881692IT IS NOT INCIDENTALLYYOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE MEANT TO BE, A CAGED CATTLE, LIVING YOUR LIFE AWAY FOR SOME PAPER CURRENCY, COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF YOUR PAINFUL, BLIND SLAVERY
Horrible.Men are as stupid spenders as women.
>>748881720>paper currencyI can tell you're a drug addict.
>>748881881NIGGER, DOING DRUGS IS FOR REAL, GENUINE PEOPLEYOURE A DUMB SOCIETAL SHEEPSTOP REPLYING TO ME IF YOURE JUST SHITPOSTING, CHILD
Pedosissy thinks caps lock makes him important o algo
>>748882114>PEDOSISSY>I-IM SO COOL, YEAH THE PEDOPHILIC COWARDS ARE WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH REALITY>O ALGOFUCK OFF STUPID POS SPICKWHY ARE YOU SHITPOSTING ME?
>>748881948>admits he's a junkie that's handled cash in the last 20 years
>>748882220>SO UNEXPERIENCED WITH REALITY, HE DENOUNCES DRUGSYOU DONT KNOW WHAT DRUGS ARE? MAN, YOUVE REALLY LIVED *ROLLS EYES*
>>748879109Consoles went full linegoup mode a while ago, I am not sure if they can fleece customers much more.
What did you guys buy last month? Did you actually play it or is it sitting in your library looking pretty.
>>748878884>pro-consumer approach>solid service>does not go public, investor cattle can't sell the plumbing for quick quarterly profit>does fantastically wellFace the facts.
>>748882514R U STUPID?
>>748882427I haven't bought since July, oddly. All that from July 26-28 is me. The rest is my brother.
>>748878884Give me more boats and hoes
>>748882601You share a Steam account? How... underaged.
>>748878884>>"Steam generated $1.7 billion in September 2026Steam made more in a month than EGS makes all year lmao.
>>748882904No, our Steam accounts are linked as a family.
>>748882601The only game I played here is Slay the Princess, which I beat a week ago. I liked it a lot, as somebody that hasn't played many visual novels that aren't porn.
>>748878884Yes yes YES I’m so happy daddy Gaben can get a new yacht
Censored trash, region locked content, digital only, can't family share from different regions. Are there humans using this lol. Nuked games from store after feminists complained. Cuck shit.
>>748883236I'm American. I would disown anyone from another region. Steam is supreme.
>30% platform feesage
>>748883385AH FINALLY SOME WILD SAGEMODS ARE GONNA FREAK!
>>748883493I prefer Rosemary.
In my experience when sales numbers get released to the public it means they're struggling
>>748883612Also, when they don't release them. Everything is flopping.
What triggered sar melty
>>748883771GB2R
>>748878884Expect Western governments to pressure them with even more gay demands and threats after this news.
>>748883098I guess that's cool, then. I've asked my brother to do the same, back when the linking thing was originally unveiled. But he wasn't interested, and I still don't know how the system actually works...
>company doesn't go public thus avoiding jewish meddling>is a massive successmakes you think
>biggest rent seeker in the industry keeps stealing even more money while video somehow keep dying moreThis is ill news indeedWhen will this parasitic entity larping as engine of pc gaming vanish from the face of the earth
>>748884125Why would any American want a Valve game in 2026?
>>748878884Good.Give another superyacht to Gaben.
>>748879716Keep seething sanjeet. I'll keep buying PC games EXCLUSIVELY on STEAM only.Death to sanjeets.Death to Tim Sweeny.Death to gog.
>>748884125>When will th-ACCCKK
>>748885218You could have put those 100 euros to better use, but you just flushed them down the toilet.
>>748884125The biggest rent-seekers in the industry are console manufacturers, Valve doesn't charge a subscription to simply use the service. And before you go bring up>muh 30% cut!That is literally industry standard for all platforms and higher cuts have not proven to beneficial to the consumer in any way as shown by EGS and its failure to provide a service on par with Steam.
>>748885532>You could have put those 100 euros to better useSuch as?
>>748878884literally just console players jumping ship from the garbage dump that is the ps5.
>>748878884Why can't steam stop raping and gaping console it's going to kill them reeeeeee
>>748885648True, you can even use PS5 and Xbox controles with steam
>>748879109>by becoming even more parasitic middlemenAds in console games are inevitable.
>>748879595>no you cant*laughs in pc*
>>748878884>How do consoles survive?They cantSteam simply has the perfect business model of appeasing both enthousiast but also poorfag pc gamers by offering over 20 years of games to buy.You can have a massive backlog on Steam with many GOTY titles while on console your reach is only wat came out on PS4 and 5.If the future of extremely pricey hardware continues like this Steam will be the last one standing because of its catalog
>>748885896It's going to come down to PC and NintendoSony and Microsoft have been getting raped for years now
>>748878884>As industry analysts Alinea Analytics report,Fake imaginary numbers. They have zero idea what Steam makes
>>748885940>and Nintendokek, fuck off nincel kiddo
>>748885940Its basically going to come down to people who care about Nintendo games and people who dont3rd party sales on PC still decimate the Switch
>>748885997Just because you don't like Nintendo doesn't mean they're not wildly successful in the video games sectorIt's simply a fact. Nintendo is an unstoppable titan.
>>748886051Until Pocketpair sues Nintendo for copyright infringement.
>>748886051Nintendo is in decline, soon their mentally ill nostalgia high 50 years old subhuman cultists will die off. Actual children and kids don't give a fuck about Nintendo.
>>748878884>tax every single game sale worldwide 30%>???>profit
>>748886404So like Sony, Xbox, Nintendo?
>>748886404>THINK OF THE PUBLISHERSFuck 'em. They can sell on their own platforms if they don't want to pay.
>>748886051Nintendo has like 1/1000th the revenue of random mobile trash. mobile game ai slop is the future.
>>748886432Bodied that freak
>>748886432Yeah we just need a few more layers of middlemen taking 30% and gaming will get gud in no time
>>748886471They can't. Steam does price fixing. Publishers would gladly give you 30% off to get you into their ecosystem until they can compete with steam. but the only one that tried is epic and they all see how that went. Ubisoft once tried and steam immediatly told them they'll get delisted if they try to compete.
>>748886918So they can't just not sell on Steam? Steam won't let them do that?>but but I didn't say thatBecause you're stupid and can't read American. Why can't publishers just avoid Steam and sell on their stores? Steam doesn't offer them anything, so there'd be no loss.
>>748886051The entire console model is absolutely fucked dude. It is unsustainable with where things are heading. The only way Nintendo can hope to stay relevant is PC, but that's to say nothing of their games barely selling anymore on top of that.Valve just chose the platform with by far the greatest potential and stuck with it through thick and thin and now it's paying off while consoles have been declining for over 15 years ever since the PS2 and Wii/DS eras.
>>748886961>So they can't just not sell on Steam?Of course they can. They can also make other smart business decision by making games that only run on a commodore 64.
>>748887029I am so hyped for the day I can play fire emblem and pokemon on a switch, maybe zelda too. A lot of other games are just gonna crash and burn once they have to compete with indies though. Like that donkey kong game that launched with the switch 2 for 70? That's something that can only exist in a walled garden.
>>748882601This is like me, only I'm the one buying thousands of games and he's the one getting thousands of games for free while he only plays Binding of Isaac for thousands of hours.
>>748887056But what's the problem with selling elsewhere? Steam takes 30% of their sales. Surely 100% on their own platform would be better.Or, maybe 30% gives them an insane level of profit, and the only people who have sympathy for publishers are dumb faggot shills.>>748887154I go bundle heavy as well, but I tend to start sifting through games later and exploring stuff a lot.
>>748878884>all the consolepleb melties in this threadlmao
>>748887184>But what's the problem with selling elsewhere?There is no audience and gamers won't leave steam no matter how much they are offered, see epic and the huge amount of free games. Because gamers are retarded and some of them even boast about trying a game on epic for free then buying it on steam. Because they are retarded, like like the old team playstation team xbox retards.
Contributed nothing to it.I only help China.
>>748887246So Valve is a monopoly that must be stopped because they have the best store that people want to use? Why not sue the gamers for antitrust?
>>748878884this is all steam's fault
>>748886918>Publishers would gladly give you 30%LolLmao evenOn Epic you still payed full priceEven when publishers had their own launchers like Origin and Bethesdanet you were still paying full priceYou have to be the most naive nigger in existence to think they would ever pass savings down to you
>>748885648Snoys all jumped to Switch, they're too stupid for PC. Which is why you now get retards who brought their old fanboy hangups with them saying shit like ootsnoy and cubesnoy to anyone who doesn't like the slop modern Nintendo is dumping out.The rise in PC is mostly people who couldn't care less about consoles to begin with or were too burned by consoles as a whole. It's just the trend things are moving in in general and PC is the only thing that will be somewhat resistant to AI fucking everything up because people still need PCs for productivity, so that PC may as well also play video games, instead of buying an expensive locked down DRM device that can only play video games and if you try to do anything else with it the real owner backhands you and bricks it.
>>748887368Oh, no. Of course valve don't need to be stopped! They just are being sued in anti trust right now and if they lose will lose all rights to deny games on their store for any reason that isn't being actually illegal.
>>748886918>Publishers would gladly give you 30% off to get you into their ecosystem until they can compete with steamWhy did Square Enix charge $70 for FF7 Remake when it was EGS exclusive?
>>748881306this would have so much more weight to it if you weren't a subhuman tendie retard slave
>>748887548They weren't trying to get you onto their store.
>>748887548They won't even give you a bundle discount.>>748887526Just buy from all the better stores, since they seem to be so abundant in your mind.
>>748887526Sounds like that should happen to payment processors first. Valve are libertarian as fuck, they don't give a shit so long as a game isn't actually illegal and they know they won't get screwed for hosting it. Payment processors and karens in australia meanwhile care very much and make it everyone's problem.
>>748881306Tard melties are a hell of a drug. The narrative you spergs spin shattering around you hurts, doesn't it?
>>748884125>video somehow keep dying morewhich video games?this year had Requiem, Pragmata, Onimusha, 007, Ace Combat 8, Forza 6, Blood of the Dawnwalker, and many others that all sold well and GTA 6 hasnt even come out yetwhere exactly are video games dying?
>>748884125Would deadlock be popular if it wasn't a valve game.
>>748887898How many of those run on a Voodoo2, which is what the vast majority of people have?
>>748887246>no matter how much they are offered,you would have had a argument if any publisher offered a game for lower than full price on their service
>>748888042I doubt these jeets even have a dedicted gpu
>>748888042Most people have phonesGive it time until fex matures and even phones will be playing steam games Valve has actual long term plans for total market conquest
>>748888462Are you retarded? They pretty much can't because steam will delist them if they try. Epic DID offer coupons though and that didn't work. Ubisoft sometimes do as well.
>>748878884I'd sell my apartment and give that money to Valve if that made Epic Timmy seethe a second longer.
>>748880765Hope you got the best edition and not the poorfag one. That size looks small. It's 178 GB here.
>>748888606>t's 178 GB here.Games are too big now.
>>748888585Fortnite makes more money than Valve you braindead steamie.>b-but muh $20 billionYeah and Valve keeps like 20% of it. Fortnite made nearly $10 billion last year.
>>748888606I got it free. I don't even play it, because free games are for faggots.
>>748888671Makes so much money they laid off a thousand dev and the expensive mall lot they bought was fucked lmao
>>748888606Also, it apparently is. It's just 137GB compressed on the depot.
Where's that retard who kept spamming that epic Nintendo picture with Steam shooting itself in the face. They're not remotely on the same level of autopilot
>>748878884Its crazy to me that people hate steam just because they are broke and anything that requires them to pay money hurts their feelings.
>>748888661>Games are too big now.Yeah I agree .w.>>748888720>I got it free. I don't even play it, because free games are for faggots.It's good though.>>748888767>Also, it apparently is. It's just 137GB compressed on the depot.I transfer only? That makes sense.
>>748888853*In transfer
>>748878884>revenue>revenue>revenuehang finfags from trees holy shit give the fucking profit
>>748888671BeholdTimmy's cash cow, sire
>>748888567What about the dozens of games that weren't on Steam, why were they full price? Alan wake 2 released full price in Epic with a year exclusivity
>>748878884Makes sense. So many games released this September trying to avoid GTA VI. Steamies buy more games than consolekeks. It's just that they don't play them.
>>748889240I guess they hoped exclusivity would get people to play the game on epic. It is a well known fact gamers often buy new games they like.
>>748880278Predatory competition is pretty fucking bad for everyone, especially the customer.
>>748888957Considering valve makes millionaires out of every one of their employees I'm betting the profit is a very large chunk of their revenue.
>>748888959>Epic knows how to trim the fat and get rid of dead weightAnd this is supposed to be bad?>>748889240Alan Wake 2 is $10 cheaper on EGS than consoles. Unlike the fat jew Gabe, Tim looks out for the customer.
Did anyone else notice all these anti-Steam threads started popping up right before Sony announced that the PS6 wouldn't use discs?
>>748879716Sorry Tim. Still not downloading EGS.
>>748890243Bitch they hired the fat and made a huge loss, how can you even begin to spin that into a win?
Lord Gaben is set to siphon all of the world’s money by 2030. As the economy and political situation around the world goes to shit, more and more people will turn to games for escapism and will happily give Lord Gaben their money. I think Valve should also think about starting an insurance plan so that people who spend all their money on games also get health/life insurance from Steam. The more games you buy, the more medical procedures you get!
>>748891679it's tendies
>>748878884>How do consoles survive?By making more money! Big 3 don't rely on gambling and money laundering like Valve!
>>748878884>20 billion yearly>still can't make sequels for their old ip's >still get sucked off 24/7 for no reason by their fanboysthis World is 90% cattle
>>748894841nobody gives a fuck about half life
>>748894841>provide a consistently good service without price gouging me>I'm supposed to be mad at them for not making sequels to unc games from the last century I never played
>>748894736p2w sportsball gameslive service microtransactionspokemon trading cards
>>748894841>>still can't make sequels for their old ip'snigger the only people who still care about Half Life 2, TF2 and Portal are all over 40Bringing back these series would be like wasting 100 million dollars on a Pitfall revival
>>748895601And valve literally make most of its money from gambling and money laundering
>>748887938It could be even more popular since Valve is literally not doing any marketing for the game.
>>748896161citation needed
can they use some of that to subsidize steam deck 2 maybe
>>748896304A normal functioning brain would tell you
>>748897218so you hate steam based purely on your gut feeling and not on actual data?imagine admitting to being a fucking cultist
