Any Steam deniers from back then?

>>713079645 (OP)
I hate South/Central Americans so much it's unreal. They're all over CS2 and since I live in south Texas I always get paired with those sub-humans.

>>713079645 (OP)
Amazed how vtubers practically made PC gaming mainstream in Japan

>>713079645 (OP)

>didn't like launching a game via a launcher
>now modern PC has about 8 launchers for various publishers/stores
Just let me run the fucking game without a Chromium launcher hogging half a gig of ram in the background

>>713079717
Thank you 30+ year old hags wearing an anime skin

>>713079789
bro your 32gb of ram?

>>713079645 (OP)
New Zealand and Australia has to be shittiest non-turd countries to be a gamer in.

>>713079717
Westaboos were eating good when Steam allowed easy access to American/European games in Japan, for those that could understand the language enough.

>>713079826
A reminder that Steam used no more than 20mb of RAM when it was new.

>Bro just get more RAM
You can't even reasonably run modern Windows on less than 16gb, compared to 7 which has no issue with 1gb.

>>713079853
That one screenshot of bilingual nips making fun of others for not knowing English is always funny to read

>>713079645 (OP)
Things were better when only the west had internet.

>>713079645 (OP)
God, we need to go back.

>>713079930
Got it handy? Their country's English proficiency in the last decade has taken a complete nosedive relative to other Asian countries.

>>713079645 (OP)
india and china didn't just ruin gaming, they ruined the whole world

>>713079902
Thanks, doc.

>>713079789
It's not hogging the RAM, it'll hand it over if you ask nicely.

>>713080000
That hasn't worked properly since Win8.1.

>>713080000
absolutely fucking wasted

>>713079645 (OP)
Fucking japs. Traitors.
>>713079713
t. chicano

>>713079645 (OP)
So all this new green is where the anti-nintendo posts are coming from, huh?

>>713079786
vtubers did this btw

>>713079902
Shout out to the Gulag Guards playing CS and DOTA with a 600 ping.

>>713079902
Danke, Herr Doktor.

>>713079645 (OP)
Sweet, gamer depression thread.

>>713079645 (OP)
>steam is for third-wordlers now

>>713079902
Thanks doc, but I need a stronger dose

>>713079645 (OP)
I remember when I used to hate Steam
>bought a DVD
>wasted 30 minutes to figure out how to instal the game without it
>repeated for every DVD

>>713080135
>third-wordlers

>>713079971
I don't sorry...
>>713080098
Imagine how pissed off the otaku are. I remember watching a documentary about Japanese nerds in 2010 and they had a section highlighting computer nerds. They showed the guy buying parts in Akiba shops and replacing them just to play a VN

>>713079645 (OP)
Madagascar should've closed it's borders.

>>713080256
Japan's vtubers are all corporate owned so they love it probably

>>713079930
This?

EMP these 2 shitholes and save gaming.

>>713079645 (OP)
What would the internet be like if we just completely blocked out Brazil, India and most of South East Asia?

>>713079645 (OP)
I resisted for 5 years before I got it.

>>713080439
india is orders of magnitude worse than the other 2. i gotta be honest. both in terms of sheer number of people and how low quality they are

>>713079717
and yet japanese games on pc still perform like dogshit
maybe those vtubers should also say something to those monkeys at team ninja or capcum about it

>>713080659
the big releases perform great tho, capcom etc

>>713079645 (OP)
vgh… we didn’t know how good we had it…

>>713080694
monhun wilds is back to mixed/mostly negative because of performance issues though

>only reason I found 4chan was cause some malaysian I met through RS2 introduced me to it along with azumanga daioh and some other fanservice stuff like 2x2=shinobuden
>he was also a drawfag, but the only piece I can remember was one of osaka and chiyo in swimsuits
>fast forward nearly 2 decades and now I hate a large portion of the world and think giving them the internet was a mistake
Oh how time makes fools of us all...

>>713079902
Gracias Doctor!

god I miss when jeets weren't on the internet

i hate steamie niggers so much it is unreal, but really all i need to say is that League of Legends has more players than Steam has users, and well that really enrages Steamshitters

>>713080989
kek not anymore, aint no1 playing league in 2025 lil bro

>>713079645 (OP)
>be me
>2012, first feeling of disposable income
>decide to treat myself
>see Hitman Absolution in the store
>buy game from store, because I enjoyed previous Hitman games
>go home to install it
>Install steam to run
>No option to just install game without it
>Well I am not fucking taking it back to the store, I want to play.
>agree, register and install it
Then more and more game insisted I use steam, and even downloaded the fucking games from online, making it entirely pointless for me to go to the damn store, get looked at weirdly by chaises, and make it a pain in the ass to ever return anything.

>>713081050
He's posting info from 2021 while Steam has nearly doubled in size since then lol. Also Riot counts people who play two of their games as two unique users.

>>713081050
cope harder steamie shitter
there are over 80 million LoL players in China alone that are not taken into account
You worship fat faggot on yacht and do not even own games You buy
just kill Yourself
one server in China has more players than entire DotA2 around world, it is pathetic

>>713079645 (OP)
>Any Steam deniers from back then?
not by 2013, that's when their status as a monopoly got solidified

>>713079645 (OP)
>gaming industry dies ~2013 2014
>steam gets taken over by third worlders
this explains everything

>>713081354
yeah only bugs still play league
btw leagueoflegends is the only social media account I've seen this month that actually has the pride month logo, pathetic

>>713081371
I remember back in the day everyone in e-cafes asked if the CS installed was the non-Steam version. Nobody wanted to bother going through the online hoops, when they just wanted to play over LAN.

>>713080352
Huh. I always get caught offguard by slang I don't recognize. Didn't think it'd be from a 9 year old image.

>>713080352
Do english-speaking japs really feel that superior about being able to speak english or any other language?

>>713081269
>Also Riot counts people who play two of their games as two unique users.
What kind of bullshit move is this? Do they really do that?

>>713079645 (OP)
Amazing that with all those lights covering the entire world, China makes up 90% of what's making Steam shit right now.

>>713081690
Most chinese are concentrated into cities and that's only on the coast of China.

>>713081658
Yes

>>713079645 (OP)
What games do they play?

>>713079717
>>713079786

>>713081806

>>713081545
They get a pass depending on how good the country as a whole is at english. English-onlys and non-turd europeans can't understand the feel.

>>713080426
>leave south america alone
>save gaming
LMAO

>>713081856
>PUBG still that high
I don't get it.

>>713081921
indians/SEA, they live and breathe pubg, mobile and PC
most of em on the map are there for pubg

>>713080352
truly, we are all the same.

>>713081921
It's mostly Chinese. Anything that you don't understand, it's the Chinese.

>>713081498
Yep, Counter-Strike 1.6 was the first game that required Steam to play, and Valve phased out the WON servers, essentially locking out older non-Steam versions and forcing players onto a DRM platform just to play a game they already owned. Steam didn't get universally loved until the late 2000s.

>>713081856
>rematch that high
Absolverbros... we've been vindicated

>>713081545
>series that normally doesn't get translated to a local language
>makes a general for it for the niche crowd that can understand enough to play/enjoy
>half the replies are translation beggars
I'd be fucking annoyed too. It's about as bad as port-begging.

>>713081471
hahahahah steamie nigger does not know what to bring up anymore so he starts talking about homosexuals
you are just pathetic

>>713082026
league is dead now buddy

>>713081804
Damn...

>>713079713
have you considered moving to a 1st world country

>>713082051
>making shit up making shit up le jeet le jeet
keep coping
singular game has more users than entire platform you shill for
that is truly pathetic

>>713079645 (OP)
the amount of brazilians on the internet makes me sick to my stomach

>>713082026
>steamie
You aren't fooling anyone, Rajeesh.

>>713080659
They rarely play Japanese game on PC.

>>713082179
been that way since the early 2000's. if you booted up tibia, you'd be drowned in a sea of huehuehues with an occasional kurwa thrown in.

>>713080439
Just blocking India alone would be a net gain for the entire internet. We have been dealing with hues and russians for decades and they at most were an annoyance, but indians are an infestation.

>>713082017
I wonder what other PC games have niche but significant communities in Japan. The only one that comes to mind is the JCP WAD for Doom.

>>713082179
>>713082329
Why Americans never complain about Mexico even though it's who you're actually matched with most of the time? Is it because you're a beaner yourself?

>>713079645 (OP)
>>713081994
how did they manage to convince everyone that a launcher is good? people literally simp for steam today when somebody calls it shit

>>713082675
consumerism and shill bots
steam is constantly being shilled and gaben is shilled for DECADES as le based gamer man for gamers le wholesome chungus
it is disgusting these people are low IQ consumers

>>713082675
The competition is significantly worse.

>>713082675
its good quality software, i have never had a technical issue with steam, I have had dozens of ones on epic/origin etc, besides that, constant sales, great free games (Tf2, cs2 and so on)

on top of everything the ability for poorfags and 3rd worlders to make some free virtual money on steam market from their ingame items and u have a recipe for success + shills

>>713079902
>before: only whites
>now: brownoïd
No wonder the Steam fags are so insufferable now. They're all third worlders brown trash.

>>713082675
>how did they manage to convince everyone that a launcher is good?
what's the alternative?

>>713082675
It just werks

>>713080076
>t. chicano
wrong nigger, i just moved here after getting out of the military

>>713079645 (OP)
Jesus, does nothing fucking happen in Australian's mainland ?

>>713082823
it is literal chromium browser you fucking mongoloid HAHAHAHAHAH

>>713082630
burgers are taught spanish in school so mexicans are less annoying to deal with than portuguese speaking brs. the language barrier isn't as great.

>>713082934
i dont know, run game.exe like before they existed?

>>713082675
Sunk cost fallacy.

>>713083081

>>713082934
>what's the alternative?
Going to the store and buying a disc

>>713079645 (OP)
What do people from New Guinea play???

The only good part of steam is the library, every other part of the client just uses it as a garbage web browser and I hate it.

>>713082675
Convenience and accessibility always wins in the end. Automatic patching of games was always the one selling point that was pretty much an undeniable upgrade over what came before.

>>713082934
Most games ran from a simple EXE file that you would double-click and play. No logins, no background clients, no forced updates.

>>713083113
ok, and? how tf is that relevant LMAO
as the other anon said it just works
as for other launchers epic just generally runs way slower than steam for me, and I get constant adds from some weird hacked bot accounts, constant, idk why, never happened on steam, for origin its also a hassle to use and the UI sucks, I've had various issues with origin ingame causing issues in games like generals and the invite a friend option not working, just a comparison, idk if its a chromium browser or what but I've never had issues with it and the UI is great

>>713083081
there's a reason why politicians want to flood it with artificial rivers and lakes

>>713083302
ahahahhaha you are fucking stupid uneducated child or you are totally clueless about technology
either way i am not entertaining either of those

>>713083123
>larping yuro thinks language classes don't just vanish from your brain after graduation

You learn english because its necessary, america has no such need

>>713083190
>running games from a disc
>on 2025
I like my games to not take 30 seconds to load, thank you very much.

>just install the-
I like not having to insert the disc every time I want to play a game I already installed, thank you very much.

>>713082456
They really cracked out on Halo1:CE (which is rare for Japan since it's an FPS) but it got translated eventually.

>>713079645 (OP)
these maps make me wonder who the random dots in Africa or the center of Australia are. what do they play? there are really niggas in Madagascar on steam?

>>713083081
>>713083081
>does nothing fucking happen in Australian's mainland ?
Death

>>713083002
Sure thing Pvt. Gonzalez

>>713082934
>this anal probe is all I know and I don't see any alternatives
and this is why Steam so popular, average person is blackest gorilla nigger
not using garbage that was forced down everyone throat doesn't even cross their brains

>>713083413
Might be video game rental/cafes, those are actually still relatively popular in third world countries.

>>713080426
>EMP
that won't kill them though? also South American detected.

>>713083351
I asked how its relevant that its chromium based to its functionality, you started spering
I think you don't know shit about software either and you're just condemning that fact because you heard its buggy/lazy/demanding etc while in steams case it just works

>>713082830
Sure anon, it's definitely not the first world troons that appeared around 2017

steam made access to pc games too easy, shovelware would never thrive without it, it's such cancer

>>713080181
kek

>>713082087
Well, the only option on his continent would be Canada.

>>713083642
but you cannot even access them
because you do not own them

>>713083204

>>713079645 (OP)
Yeah I remember when steam first started and I hated it. Still do.

>>713082934
You could lend, trade, resell, or install your game anywhere without online checks or restrictions. I remember buying L4D on a whim from a thrift store instead of buying it directly through Steam, going home, and realizing that the previous owner obviously used the activation key for his account already, so I was SOL and had to buy it again from for my Steam account directly. Yes, there were CD Keys back in the day which were cancer, but they were much easier to get around. You could always search up online and find one to use for your copy of the game.

Also, when games began requiring online authentication, even for solo or LAN play, offline multiplayer faded to obscurity since it was way more cumbersome and pointless now.

>>713083302
>I get constant adds from some weird hacked bot accounts
you issue btw

>>713079645 (OP)
You reading this, yes you, I hope you were part of the pre-2013 Steam™ enjoyer.

>>713083805
I miss cd keys fuck all this always online garbage

>>713083857
I assume most non zoomers got on Steam from either HL2 or The Orange Box.

>>713082675
everyone else is wrong
what saved Steam was the orange box, relative software stability and the bargain sales meme of steam summer sales and shit
back in the late-late 2000s and early 2010s, the Steam client software had grown to become decent-ish and Valve released a bunch of hot games with the orange box for super cheap in 2007, locking in a whole generation of people who would swear by Source even until this very day. more or less at the same time lots of 3rd parties started to distribute their games on Steam amidst the death of Direct2Drive and shit. Valve also decided to do bonkers bargain sales which skyrocketed Steam's popularity at the time: consider that, for the better part of half a decade, youtube channels gobbled Steam's dick repeatedly because of the summer sales with many videos racking hundreds of thousands of views (this was a big deal back then). then EA's Origin came out, which was a reskinned EA Download Manager posing as a Steam competitor, and locked Battlefield 3 behind it. that game was hyped to hell and back kinda like Half-Life 3 was, and EA was giga reviled for this move because their software was not perceived to be nearly as good as Steam. there were also spyware scares much like EGS much later had. this combination of factors solidified Steam as this giga shilled, un-criticizable, behemoth of PC game distribution.

>>713083857
>>713084121
im 26, made my first account in 2012 to play f2p tf2

>>713083002
Imagine being retarded enough to get brainwashed in to serving the Israeli military

>>713083642
>shovelware would never thrive without it, it's such cancer
You must have missed the Korean MMO rush back in the day.

>>713084301
Sorry bröther 26 is zoomer...

>>713079645 (OP)
>India and South America
I remember when the Brazilians invaded the F2P games, we well never have the good times again.

>>713084121
My first game was cs 1.6. Don't know if it used steam back then.

>>713083857

>>713083373
Yeah fuck discs.
Fuck storing the cases, fuck fiddling about with swapping them over. The manuals were nice in the really early days but by the 2000s it was all dvd style cases with nothing but the disc.

Convenience and price trumps ownership, even the bargain bin in eb games was still $20-30 (or extreme garbage you wouldn't want to touch) when steam was doing 90% discounts.

No one can point to a better alternative than steam, we got lucky. If you don't like it you can pirate.

>>713082675
Piracy is a distribution problem. Steam has the easiest access to games of any launcher. Steam is also the most feature rich of all the launchers.

>>713084724
You're a fag

>launch a launcher for your own games
>piss the playerbase off with it being buggy/crashy in its first year
>eventually allow others games on it
>this was the first non-Valve game
People didn't like it until it started offering $5 game-bundle sales in its earlier times, when indies started to thrive with 2d games.

>>713084121
My friend said tf2 actually got updates on PC when we were playing on 360, I made a steam account the next week and played on a shitbox laptop for the Halloween event in 2008.

One of the other cons with Steam is how people algorithmically discover new titles now. You get recommendations based on data, not people. It's not about what games are worth playing, it's about what games are optimized to sell the most. It's similar to how people plugging themselves into an algorithm on social media has ruined the Internet because no one actively curates their own experiences anymore. It's all about what's trending or what has the highest click-through rates. No developer is going to be incentivized to take creative risks anymore as a result, because if you're not making games for the algorithm, it'll get buried. Lesser known titles back in the day could still make an impact and gain a cult following through word of mouth since there wasn't such an ocean-wide gap yet between the meta and throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

>>713085746
There's a reason Valve introduced user curated lists.

>>713080426
forgot Russia. don't want to see a letter of Cyrillic in my games.
t. euro

>>713087138
your precious ukraine also uses cyrillic cuck-mohhamedan bro

>>713082675
They didn't. Steam blew up as a digital storefront, not as a launcher for the few Valve games.

>>713086293
This, find curators from yt channels and sites you already read and if you need to go further than that just explore the most sub'd ones that agree with your opinions.

>>713079645 (OP)
That bottom image is the greatest argument against using Steam that I've ever seen.

>>713083181
Why not build trains?

>>713079645 (OP)
0% that Australia map is accurate

>>713087381
>bottom picture
>90% white
hmm I wonder who is behind this post

>>713082675
Back then the alternative was no launcher.
Now the alternative is a much shittier launcher.

>>713087206
Good idea, why don't we put all eastern slavs into their own servers. I hate seeing their moon script in my games

>>713083002

>>713083857
i want to go back so bad...

>>713083343
australia had an inland sea thousands of years ago, but it dried out, most likely because the retarded abbos would set everything on fire so they could find their way back home, eventually causing mass desertification and turning it into a barren wasteland

>>713088380
Bonus fact: it's called the Eromanga Sea

>>713088380
>retarded abbos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0NcaxmGHo

>>713079786
Nippon has risen.

>>713079645 (OP)
How do we fix the indian subcontinent situation.

>>713089187
honestly i have no idea. even bombing it thoroughly would cause devastating damage to the environment with all of the toxins that would be unleashed. i think we may just be fucked

>>713081809
>only ~1% of world's population uses Steam

>>713089187
No way to fix it without a hostile invasion, the root of India's problems come from their own culture and the sheer amount of their population.

>>713089187
Their culture intentionally produces the rot they shit out into the rest of the world. There is no salvaging it, only destroying it.

>>713080352
japs should really get into strategy games more

most of the best ones are on PC, tough the language barrier truly is a problem

>>713083675
>canada
>first world country
GOOD MORNING SAAR!

>>713079713
cry harder gringo

im gonna play sweatier if i see you in a match, bitch

>>713080426
brazil is further down south retard

>>713079645 (OP)
technically my first steam game was portal which i got for free during the promotion, the first game i BOUGHT, is an interesting story

>latino
>pirated games my whole life, all consoles chipped
>finally get some semi-decent PC, start pirating some games to try
>download Company of Heroes
>adore it
>try to convince my best friend to play it together with hamachi
>he does but its difficult to keep the connection going and he isnt very good
>best bro out of the blue buys me Company of Heroes + Opposing Fronts expansion so i can play online all i want
>i buy us L4D2 as a thank you

over the years we gifted each other more games, which wasnt exactly easy back in venezuela

bro i appreciate our friendship, youve always been real

>>713090661
no latino has ever been a good CS player/team

let that sink in, go fry some beans ese

>>713079645 (OP)
lol

>>713080439
You would need also deport all Hindu back to their shit hole. Then build wall around it

>>713091330
lets hope baja stays that way

>>713082675
ex-pirate here

its literally better than pirating
>good download speeds
>cloud saves
>easy modding
>steam input
>social features
>community market
>excellent discounts
>family sharing

>>713084732
I don't need features I just need to play vidya

>>713091182
i guess im just built different, creatura

>>713091418
We have to kick all the chilangos and gringos OUT

>>713079645 (OP)
i dont remember ever seen an indian on steam

>people complaining about latinos/brazilians/russians
>not realizing the destructive wave coming that will destroy the internet by the end of the decade

>>713091428
"piracy is a service problem" moment

>>713082630
it's the 51st state, what's the point

>>713082675
there are tons of people that slowly built up several grand of purchases in it over the years
they have a literal vested interest in steam being fine and every year there are more

>>713080769
Wilds is also an extremely boring shit game, what's your point?

>>713087138
Also, ban Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and German.>>713087231

>>713082675
launcher eliminates the need for a desktop full of game icons
games frequently go on deep discount
can easily gift games to friends
family sharing is sick
steam friends chat is probably the next best group chat after discord
workshop makes modding way easier and often eliminates the need for other launchers
better download speeds than anything else i've seen
some of the features like cloud saves and achievements are occasionally nice to have

>>713087607
It's not even 50%+ english anymore

>>713079645 (OP)
SOUL vs SOULLESS

>>713091428
You know what did the exact same things but better?
CDs

>>713085065
Except literally no one complained about the "Launcher" because as with any other video game at the time it was just part of the install

Don't talk about things that you weren't even alive for, little boy.

>This was the first non-Valve game
It was the "First" in a giant pool of random titles and other games. Just like how twins will celebrate being born "First" despite it being 5 minutes apart.

Fuck off zoom zoom shit poster

>>713087138
Yoи wiлл see iт wheтнep yoи liкe iт or noт

>>713091852

>>713091862
>launcher eliminates the need for a desktop full of game icons
I kinda miss it desu

>>713091885
CDs didnt have cloud savings or steam input

wanna know how many games i have on my steam account right now?

1481, you expect me to haul 1481 CDs around? heck, just on my steam deck i installed 60 games, how exactly am i going to carry 60 CDs around with my Steam Deck?

>>713092262
god you people can't do anything

>>713091885
>buy cd
>it's scratched and doesn't work out of box
>use toothpaste trick to fix it
>pop it in
>doesn't autoplay
>manually run installer
>PLEASE ENTER THE CD KEY
>enter key
>WRONG KEY, PLEASE TRY AGAIN
>WRONG KEY, PLEASE TRY AGAIN
>WRONG KEY, PLEASE TRY AGAIN
>give up, download crack
>am now part of the north korean botnet
>don't care, at least game is installed
>run game
>game immediately crashes because it hasn't been updated since 2006
>go to archive.org and download patch that the manufacturer no longer hosts
>run game
>crack only worked for installer, doesn't work running game and securom crashes because it hasn't been updated since 2006
>find different crack
>now part of the iranian botnet as well
>computer now sounds like a jet engine
>don't care, game runs
>defaults to 640x480
>try to connect to online services
>ERROR, SERVER DOES NOT EXIST
>publisher end of life'd it 10 years ago
>play single player
>can't see anything because of low resolution
>go to graphical settings
>change res to 1024x768 because that's the highest it goes
>game immediately crashes and won't start up again
>computer explodes from botnet activity
>get new computer
>lost cd
>give up
>buy game on steam
>download and run it
>now plays in 4k without any issues
h-heh, yeah, cdbros...

>>713092098
>in a giant pool

it wasnt really a big batch

>>713092221
>>713091862
I mean I still do it despite having them all on steam

>>713081809
>10 million ziggers
awful

>>713079713
Get mad

>>713091541
You're not good either. Every major tournament will be won by chinks or north americans

>>713091852
>what's your point
my point is, in case you brainless sub human can't read, is the fucking performance
I never, ever, ever fucking implied that the game is good or not
the game can be as smelly as your mom's anus and I wouldn't give a rat ass
the performance is my fucking point, you failed abortion

>>713092389
yea but at least now you don't have to, the option's there

>>713092368
that is not more convenient than simply having a digital library that occupies 0 physical space

>>713092221
how the fuck did this bastard have so many games installed?

>>713087206
Yeah, nuke them too. Nuke everything between Austria and Japan.

>>713079713
https://github.com/FN-FAL113/cs2-server-picker and block everything but east coast

>>713092515
lack of convenience is the price you pay for actual ownership, it's really not so bad unless you're installing some double A literally who game nobody has ever played like >>713092369

>>713091428
>>excellent discounts
yeah, the only thing better than free is paying

>>713083805
You can do it now with many steam games. Some don't even have steam work, other are easily cracked or can be run on emu

>>713080426
mexicans are annoying, but by far the biggest subhumans i've ever played with are peruvians, argentinians and then brazil in that order

>>713087138
i'm still mad those slavic shits are still not segregated from our internet
online games are unplayable because of those cunts

>>713092631
what does "actual ownership" get me that i would actually care about? end of life'd multiplayer servers, a room full of bullshit taking up space, installation media that is easily lost or destroyed, and copy protection bullshit that makes it so i can't just back it up?

the only two options that make sense are steam and GOG depending on what your priorities are. physical ownership is a retarded meme, i grew up with it and i couldn't leave it behind fast enough, i was one of the first people on the steam hype train back in like 2006 or 2007.

>>713091687
So far I don't see them much on my online spaces except for fucking youtube and it became so bad that typing a search term in either google or youtube it often auto-completes with "in tamil/hindu" at the end. So aggravating.

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>>713092967
disk rot sort of invalidates actual ownership, i don't know how prevalent it is but I guarantee that steam servers will still run after your 2007 half life 2 DVD has become unusable

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>>713079645 (OP)
I hate brown subhumans so fucking much bros, majority of you are fucking brown too let that sink in, fuck all of you, you should thank the european man for giving you dogs electricity and an internet connection

>>713092631
i see your argument, however, theres two problems

1) my digital library has outlasted pretty much every physical game ive ever owned, in fact by now, many old CDs could be suffering from disk rot, even if you didnt lose em or break em by this point
2) not all devs can afford a physical release, some of my favorite games ever are indies, the guys behind FTL had to use Kickstarter to get the game out the door, i dont think they had enough cash to put the game on CDs

>>713092684
when you have all the other great features, the small fee makes it easier to jump in

plus i want to support the devs

>>713079645 (OP)
I certainly preferred the internet when it looked like the top

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>>713093362
I've never understood the disk rot meme. All my old games from 20+ years ago still work just fine. Do people just not keep them stored well?

>>713079645 (OP)
Still don't have steam

>>713094035
i mean, if you use this as storage... >>713092368

>>713094473
I've used something like that too in the past for music CDs, still no issue.

>>713094035
i didn't mention disk rot, i just said they're easily lost or damaged. i accidentally ran over my diablo 2 cinematics disc with a chair when i was younger... luckily it's the least important one, but still.

>>713079645 (OP)
Can we create the internet 2 and gatekeep it from the turdworld?

>>713094723
Anon… www IS The Internet 2 made to contain the subhumans

>>713079786
Owari da...

>>713080098
>corporations did this
Yeah we know.

>>713095007
No, no... It can't be true! Am I...

>>713091150
you should tell that to him rather than post it on an image board

>>713095474
he knows, ive told him shit only my therapist knows about

>>713079645 (OP)
Holy shit I can see me in 2013. Hey lil bud.

>>713080090
>the whole civilized world is against jewish corporation
shocking

>>713080769
>performance issues
kek

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>>713092937
kill yourself rapefugee jeets

>>713079826
>32GB
NGMI. You need 64GB Min for the CEF and Electron hellscape we live in, unless you want to say "oh fuck I shouldn't of bought 32GB of ram, I should've bought 64GB" in 5 years time.

>>713079839
It ain't easy but we make do. It is shit if you wanna play older or low pop games online. Usually have to shack up with chinks who as we all know are 99% hackers. And I hate seeing their ugly moon runes.

>>713083857
I used have a steam account made in 2011 and i got 11 years badge on it. I decided to delete it.

>>713079902
Thanks Medicine Man

>>713092262
>muh cloud saves
Literally useless when save files are stored on your computer, retard

>>713081856
Where are all these players in my old HL2 Multiplayer mods?????

>>713079924
Rather die than have less than 64 niggerbytes of ramission.

>>713096425
i think tf2c shows up as that, not sure

>>713096506
>increases swap to 125GB
Heh, nuthin personell, kiddo.

>>713082456
Japanese play a lot of the Battlefield games.

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>>713096576
That's people playing FiveM

>>713096705
If I had 128GB of RAM I would turn my brand new computer on day 1 and leave it on for the rest of its life, never closing a single program or browser tab, ever, so everything I'll ever need is easily accessible whenever I need it. The day it stops working we throw that piece of junk in the trash and buy a brand new PC with 256GB RAM. Rinse and repeat.

>>713081856
>81,000 people playing Stardew at any one time
Holy shit.

>>713079645 (OP)
Take me back...

>>713082675
They evolved it from being "just a launcher" to a full digital storefront over time, and then drew in users to it by running deep discounts and sales frequently to get people to develop digital libraries hosted on Steam, effectively locking them to the platform while making an effort to actually improve the launcher as well. Although I would argue that from the mid 2010s onward even Steam has been victim to adding unnecessary bloat I would have preferred the option to remove.

Back in the late 2000s/early 2010s games on Steam would be cheaper at base cost compared to retail (I remember Deus Ex Human Revolution launching on steam for 50 bucks compared to 60 at retail because when PC was more of a niche market publishers were actually cutting the manufacturing cost of printing a disk and plastic case from the product) and it was not uncommon to see fairly recent releases go on deep discounts, which is how the subculture of steam sale threads came about. Obviously, as soon as the PC platform established itself as a truly core market and competitor to the existing console market, all of those discounts in base price and with sales practically disappeared over night. I mean it genuinely when I say that anyone who was fortunate enough to own a gaming PC and old enough to earn a wage genuinely missed out on what was truly a brief golden age for PC consumers that you still have people here bitter about how it ended so soon to this day.

>>713097018
swap file can easily replace ram if you use it on a high-speed ssd or nvme drive

These are honestly the only problem areas. I don't even mind chinks anymore because spics and seamonkeys are such horrendous subhuman pieces of shit that they manage to beat out the bugs for the worst fucking animals on the internet.

>>713079645 (OP)
I was a steam enjoyer even in 2004 when steam actually was lackluster.

>>713092927
you are brown

>>713080518
SEA cope.

>>713079645 (OP)
Why are there downloads in the middle of the Congo?

>>713081809
Yeah, mainstream.

>>713092967
>what does "actual ownership" get me that i would actually care about?
Obviously nothing because you are a bugman built to enjoy subservience to your betters in exchange for mild short term conveniences.

who the fuck gave india internet access

>>713097502
yep stardew is fuckin massive with women/chill normies/troons

>>713096846
This is cultural erasure, why can't it go choose some other random game to leech off of.

>>713091428
I get the feeling that if piracy didn't exist, PC gaming simply wouldn't take off worldwide the way it did. Maybe it would die off entirely, even. Once everyone was hooked, many decided to quit piracy bit by bit, contributing to the growth of this platform.

>>713079713
same
>>713092616
oh nice, will have to try it

>>713098117
>left out india
I see you Rahim

>>713079826
RAM usage is like government bureaucracy bloat. They just keep taking and taking and not showing any improvement.

>>713081658
Riot ain't the first and won't be the last
It's also amazingly freeing once you just start lying with your data

>>713079645 (OP)
>India lighted up this hard
SARS

>>713079902
Grazie dottore.

>>713079786
considering that Russia is 1/3rd the pop of the USA and 1/10th the pop of China, being just a little behind them is actually insane

>>713079713
Amerifat

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>>713092398
>using english
you monkeys lost btw

>>713079713
>CS2 in the year 2000+20+5
Come back to 1.6 and Source.

>>713100960
Doesn't matter when you can buy so much. I have 60+ tabs, photoshop, bunch of random shit open, and I can still start up a game with no problems whatsoever. Whereas when I had less RAM, I had to close that shit like a peasant.
It's time to get your computer to work for you, instead of pandering to it like a lil cuck, closing all your shit any time you wanna play a game. Buy more RAM and leave everything open.

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>>713080989
Uh oh melty

>>713082456
Elder scrolls and GTA(even before the roleplay eceleb shit) have the biggest fanbases, elder scrolls being the biggest.

>>713079645 (OP)
You'd have to a complete braindead goyim cattle to download that spyware on your computer. No surprise since zoomers are the dumbest jewish golems.
>also paying for jewish vidyaslop
Good goys

>>713079713
lmao get fucked CSnigger

>>713102082
>on /v/
>thinks all vidya is jewslop
sasuga /v/ermin nigger now go back to /pol/

>>713097765
>I would have preferred the option to remove.
What’s worse is you used to be able to launch with the -no-browser option and they took it away

>>713079902
Danke doc

>>713080098
you know that's right

>>713085746
That's not steam's fault though. People used the social features a lot in my circles.

>>713103710
I literally just now tried to watch a pippa vod, its so boring, shes yapping about her most boring stereotypical suburban whtie bitch life for 80% of the vod instead of playing the actual game

there, I fixed it

>>713104372
She's an acquired taste, I would recommend you Tenma instead from the same company, or Kiki if you want an actual 4chan chuuba, with the added benefit that she's actually pretty nice to watch.

>>713104372
>yapping

>>713104372
I just look at the model and cum
some yap good but I have a low tolerance for female yap (building it up by listening to a girl I work with yap at lunch)

>>713079645 (OP)
The third world getting access to the internet was a mistake

>>713079645 (OP)
Why has Steam failed to capture the Antarctica audience?

>>713104897
I do sometimes listen to chudtubers rant on some bullshit as a background noise, kirsche, smugalana, squchan etc, recently due to my recommended, but pippa I tried to wathc a full vod and it was so boring
the vod in question
https://youtu.be/3POLt7Fev0g
just play the fuckin funny game woman

>>713104938
same female coworkers yap a ton too, its a woman thing, they don't have the brain capacity for much internal thought so they just say everything

>>713092262
>can't carry 1481 cds
>>/fit/

>>713079645 (OP)
Good Moooorning, SIRs!

>>713096213
lol why
who did you impress

>>713103581
I still utterly hate the Steam Curator feature and hate how there was no real option to actually remove it from bloating the front store page (especially when you need to scroll past it to even get to the new & trending tab) ESPECIALLY when it first game out and the feature was just nothing but dumb fuck reddit memes like the dude who just kept copy and pasting that one joke from Mass Effect 2 with Commander Shepard being a shill for years. Even now it's still useless with nothing but pedantic 3rd worlders bitching about bullshit I could not possible be even paid to give a shit about. On the front page it's been replaced with the community recommends section but even that is still bloat that I dont care for, as I'm enough of an enthusiast of the medium that I don't need to read the words of another user to formulate an opinion on if I want to buy a game or not. I unironically liked Steam the best when it was as bare-bones as possible.