Well...why?

Because they're shit. Next stupid question.

Thread will be filled with cope but the true answer is people are addicted to increasing the size of their library, they dont actually care about the games

>>714303813 (OP)
that blue checkmark means they earn ad revenue from engagements
you are doing someone else's legwork for zero (0) compensation
https://www.4chan.org/janitorapp

I hate all digital gaming. If society went in the right direction, every game would be on a chip like the switch and 3ds. You would have a chip slot on every PC and could buy PC games physically from stores.

Because steam is where my games are. If you're not first you're last.

>>714303813 (OP)
they are doing it the best way

>>714304062
That would be pure soul, but alas.

>>714304062
Hell, even special SD cards with quicker transfer rates and more storage would have been great

>>714303952
this is why storefronts need library parity to truly compete, kind of like Ubisoft Connect but it should work both ways

>>714303907
FPBP
Retarded thread.

>>714303907
EGS is better than Steam.

stop farming engagement twitter nigger

>>714303813 (OP)
Companies need to stop thinking that they need to compete with Steam and just stick to their own launcher/store for their own games like Blizzard does. Nobody wants their game library needlessly scattered across different platforms, but people are okay with games being attached to first party launchers. Also they need to get rid of their own launchers if the game is on Steam too because it's super obnoxious to start a game in Steam and have to go though another launcher that begs you to sign up to it and shit.

Steam is much more full-featured. It doesn't help that one of those so-called competitors used to disparage the PC platform, and now feels that he should have a slice of the pie just because Steam is a monopoly, as if simply investing some money into a bargain bin storefront should earn you customers.

>>714303907
my first thought shaped into the first post, which also happens to be the best

>>714305352
>EGS is better than

>>714305352
Did it finally get a shopping cart?

>>714303813 (OP)
Good service, and several times did very pro-consumer moves.

>>714304869
i think the licensing of your purchase prevents that. gog and steam will allow you to import games from eachother's libraries, but all they're doing is launching the exe, importing a steam game wouldn't give you the drm-free offline installer for it on gog.

Because Gaben is the god king of gaming

>>714307308
and importing a gog game wouldn't give you access to the steam features for it.

>>714303813 (OP)
>meme basterd
>scrolls 4 chan to scrape posts for engagement profit
>is literally the kind of braindead boomer to support dogshit games

Why do you follow such pieces of shit?

>>714305352
only to commies who tell themselves "sure, everybody is starving, but at least we're making sure nobody is growing food for the wrong reasons"

>>714307118
Yeah, and it only took like two and a half years after its launch for such a basic feature.

Buying games on other platforms carries a tax because their services aren't as good as Steams.

>>714303813 (OP)
>>714304090
No one likes Steam, they have to use Steam because stupid people like you had a chance to stop buying from Steam but refused. Now almost all American publishers are on Steam, exclusively selling on Steam and only promoting it on Steam because you people don’t want another platform.

>>714303813 (OP)
because they are shit and I have 20 years of games on my steam account. There's no way they can compete

I don't want four different launchers on my PC. I'll buy from GOG because you can download games without Galaxy. That's the only way I'd ever buy anything from EGS or whatever those other ones are.

>>714304062
If I had to go to stores to buy games I wouldn't buy games any more. Hell I don't even go out to buy groceries any more, and I own an inner city apartment literally across the road from a mall. An extra $5 to have some pajeet shop for me while I enjoy my free time? Absolutely worth it. An extra -50% to buy from Steam rather than EB Games while also not having to worry about the physical storage space available in my apartment? The most no brainer deal ever conceived.

>>714303813 (OP)
>People like the one with a store that actually works like a store should
Big shocker

>>714307535
Did you know that, even in the retarded conservative strawman version of communism where everyone is forced to have the same flat wage and nobody can get ahead - per American productivity that would mean a guaranteed $700k a year in every household?

And then there's reality where all anyone actually advocates for in the US is plain old 1900's Republican progressive platforms like strong unions and democratized company ownership which would objectively be better than the earned dollar losing value year over year since the 1970s. But yall are too retarded for that conversation.

>>714303952
Not me
I'm not like the other gamers

Sunk cost

>>714303813 (OP)
I am not keeping several different game collections. I am logging into Steam, thats that. The other competitors doesbt exist as far as I am concerned even if they gave me free shit.

>>714308087
>per American productivity
except you wouldn't have American productivity if everyone made the same wage
just as EGS is finding out, having started with an enormous FortNite fortune and ending up with a substantially smaller fortune

Because all my games are on Steam.

>>714303813 (OP)
Because they dont do anything other than have exclusives, theyre just a store front that does nothing else as a platform, anyone can do this. So aside from just being a shelf with products on it, Steam does other stuff too. One of the best things Steam did was integrated Workshop for mods. Why the fuck has other platforms not done this, as it is now, they are doing nothing, and complaining that the most successful platform is actually doing stuff.

If you want to beat Steam, copy everything they do, and do something else. Dont just expect exclusives to be a reason people hang around, with exclusives they are just there for the game, they dont give a fuck about the platform when you do that, thats not how you get loyal patrons, because what the fuck is there to be loyal to, its just shop with products on the shelf.

Steam Keys, I can get games cheaper than on steam itself.

>>714307872
You brought it on Steam and only on Steam. You didn’t buy anything during the time they offered the games outside the Steam store. This was your choice, the publishers only wanted your money, they don’t care about the games.

>>714308087
>He thinks wealth would be divided equally under communism instead of being concentrated in the hands of an even smaller group of elites like every time communism has been tried

>>714303813 (OP)
>steam application is quite robust and always has been
>others all seem to be the same program with the branding changed
>feels flaky and shit

>>714303813 (OP)
controller support for one

>>714308789
Nigger tell me what amazing options did I have 10 years ago? At that point I was already 10 years into Steam

>>714303813 (OP)
People tend to gravitate toward the store that they know will continue to exist 5 years from now. Shit like Desura & Gamersgate (now that was an unfortunate name) kinda taught us to act that way.

>>714303813 (OP)
because half life 2 or portal was the first "good" game that a bunch of milenials played so they have undying loyalty to lord gaben and will work tirelesly to buy him more yachts

>>714308917
Then get lost newfag, 2014 was when Valve opened up Steam for everyone. You literally never experienced real gaming.

>>714304026
Nigga of course he knows him. It's him.

>>714304062
If society went the right direction, then there would be only minimal DRM, copyright would only last for a minimum amount of time (rather than being optimized for NPEs and making money off of court cases) and this whole discussion of physical vs. digital would just die.
Physical carts are for people with bad internet connections and while that's a good use case, that doesn't make it better at everything else, especially since physical storage media can still have copy protection that prevents you from using your own product.

>>714303813 (OP)
Chris honestly is the most interesting Griffin family member

>>714303813 (OP)
Steam has the most variety and best sales. You're just a retard who doesn't know shit about the other stores. Probably a consoletard

Steam was the first, then remained the only viable option for several years. People built libraries associated with Steam, and now they have too much there to simply switch to other stores.
The only chance other stores have is to wait for new generations to enter the market and try to get these people before Steam does.

>>714308709
gog has just started doing one click mods.

>>714303813 (OP)
In Jewish mysticism there is a concept known as the Tzadikim Nistarim, the hidden righteous ones. Basically it is an admission that the Jews are a fundamentally horrible people and deserve God's righteous punishment to fall on them and to be removed from the world. The reason God has not done so is because at any given time there exist 36 righteous jews. The 36 are so good, so honest, and live completely within God's light that He won't destroy the jews as a people because He wants to spare these individuals, and that were it not for them, if even one of them was missing, all the jews would be gone. The Tzadikim live their entire lives never knowing that they are the keystones that support their people's entire existence because they are too humble to ever even consider that they could be what they actually are.

What I mean to say is that Gaben has earned my trust. Something that creepy fag Tim Sweeny will never do.

Do the others let you refund after 2 hours?

Probably that. Its crazy how that isnt the standard like you'd seriously would be stuck with Mindseye if you bought it on the Xbox store

>>714303907
/thread. All the other "storefronts" are just game companies trying to get their own slice without doing what steam did, even basically.

Epic is only still around because it's the only way to get the Unreal engine, and also Fortnite and free games. and Xbox Game Pass because it's an alluring offer to people who can't afford vidya, or just want to rent certain vidya.

>>714309697
I've had a game refunded after a month by steam.

>>714303952
>Thread will be filled with cope
Your post is a good start.

>>714307761
I like Steam. Sorry, Timmy. Go fuck yourself.

>>714309697
xbox is actually more merciful than sony and nintendo oddly enough, they let you refund games with playtime
nintendo is no refunds period and playstation is no refunds if you downloaded the content

>>714309798
gottem

>>714309604
And gog is a good platfom, normalize this.

>>714303813 (OP)
Put a Gog guy next to steam and it's all right

>>714309226
I played vidya before you were born, tardzoomer.
What a laughable cope.

what would a store have to do to even try to upheave steam?
even if they try to act nicer than steam they still have loyalty of steam carrying pc gaming for nearly two decades

>>714303813 (OP)

First mover advantage.

Now it's Stockholm Syndrome.

>>714309697
i think everyone is required to have a refund policy now because of the australian or european law that forced steam to have one.

Problems that have happened to me:
Uplay
>UI is notoriously clunky
>People are still logging into my account despite changing passwords multiple times and enabling 2FA

>Install Ass Creed game on steam
>Forced to use ubi launcher to actually download and update the game
>Ubi launcher proceeds to take fucking forever doing said task
>In the time it took to download and install the game, I managed to download a pirated version, install it and play for several hours

Epic
>Email 2FA is incredibly slow, often by the time my email gets the code it's already invalid
>Can't put free items into a cart for some reason
>Anytime fortnite has a huge event that causes tons of people to hop on, epic launcher becomes unusable for me despite wanting to play non-fortnite games because some genius at epic thought it'd be a good idea to have fortnite and epic game services use the same damn server

Origin
>...Actually despite being run by EA of all companies, I haven't had any real problems and is generally pretty stable and responsive

The issue it always comes down to is that Steam is chock full of community and ease of life features that set it apart, and most companies who try to compete with steam just see "Oh, they just sell games. We can do that." They think that their brand power will be enough to bring people over. News flash, it ain't.

>>714303813 (OP)
this guy is a third world faggot who keeps asking this question periodically. he's a disengenuous nigger.

>>714303907
This
Gaben makes it look easy

gaben has earned my loyalty by preventing the dark future of having to cuck out and just accept the decay of windows
7 was beautiful and it was cut down in its prime

>>714305352
lolno. Not even Sweeney defends his garbage of a store.

>>714308087
>a guaranteed $700k a year in every household?
damn that's awesome
now I can pay for my 50k burger
while I drive my 1.3m car

>>714303813 (OP)
>>714303907
we're done here

>>714303813 (OP)
origin's interface is bloated, not minimal, slow, and emphasizes the store over the library of games. steam gets it.

>>714308791
The same people ended up with all the wealth under both systems, maybe the issue isn't the style of government but these people that keep doing this to economies?

>>714303813 (OP)
To be honest, Steam just got there first
I came from a time where you could just stick your CD-ROM in the drive and play the game. I prefer that.
I resisted it as long as I could until I got the Orange Box for Christmas

>>714310916
>Steam just got there first
It also does a really good job at what its trying to do, and everyone else does the bare minimum and thats it. Steam offers a lot of really great features for what it is, and devs actually get a pretty substantial amount of value from putting their games on it. While all they get for putting it on other stores is losing a cut of the profits.
A good launcher does more than act as a shitty storefront, and steam, GOG, and itch.io are the only ones doing anything to be worth actually using for both the devs and customers.

>>714308791
Did you not fucking read the part where I clearly stated it was a retarded hypothetical forced as a strawman?

>>714304062
You basically described the Satellaview anon

>>714310729
>now I can pay for my 50k burger
Whose trade war is doing that to you

>>714305352
Steam just added a performance overlay what has Epic Games added lately?

Do they even have a cart yet?

>>714307905
>letting pajeets touch your food
Might as well drink water from the ganges.

>>714303907
That's a wrap, people.

>>714307308
yeah i mean, if you buy a game on any storefront you should just get 1 key for every storefront. maybe they could somehow tie the keys to your account before activation as well so you can't abuse

>>714303952
This. I see some steam profiles with like thousands of games and you know they didn't touch even 95% of them.

>>714303813 (OP)
All my games are there.
The company is privately owned.

>>714303813 (OP)
because they are based cunnyseurs of refined taste.
any other plataform would have banned pic related

Steam is too big to remain privately owned forever. Sooner or later they will go public and then the shitshow will begin. It's good to have some alternatives

>>714311870
The games industry will collapse before that happens

>>714311870
what do you mean too big to remain private? as in you think they don't make enough money?

>>714303813 (OP)
>*user uses product that works*
>hey you! yes you that's using product that works! look at this!! this product also... sorta works!
>that product is... kinda shit
>lol loser, who cares about your opinion? you are gonna consume my excrement regardless lol!!
I understand that approach with things like diversity since you have every corporation on board but to gain to customers to your store? Oh well.

>>714311870
>If steam becomes shit, you will be happy to have alternatives that have already been shit since their inception.

>>714311870
>It's good to have some alternatives
the alternatives are not public?

>>714305352
>lower cut
>doesn't pass on savings to consumer
can't think of a more business illiterate company

>>714308087
you mean the version you made up to strawman an argument?
go cry on pol, commie.

>>714303813 (OP)
I like GOG more because I can download an offline installer.
The others are equivalent to Steam but I already use Steam so I have no reason to switch.

>>714303813 (OP)
Sales
https://files.catbox.moe/qa0hld.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/045kuj.jpeg
Also established market

>>714311167
yeah, one made up by you to spout even more bullshit.
go cry on pol

>>714309949
OK faker

>>714310172
>Uplay
>>UI is notoriously clunky
>>People are still logging into my account despite changing passwords multiple times and enabling 2FA

Right?! Had that happen before I just shut it down. Same with people trying to get into my old Gaijin account.

>>714310913
except they didnt, did they?
which is why america invented supermarkets while russians invented the oxcart analogy.

>>714312315
what do 10-20% sales look like

>>714303813 (OP)
>twatter screencap post
steam is dogshit like the rest. the fat kike burned any bridges with gamers a long time ago
their anti-consumer practices forbidding you from selling your games yourself for less money are amazon-tier jewish
the only saving grace is that as bad as they are, the competition manages to be 10x more jewish
>>714305352
>no reviews
>no forums
>no shopping cart
>tencent-owned

>>714311167
>It will work this time!
>Americans NEED to adopt a foreign ideology that belonged to a hostile country that threatened to kill them all even though they won over them
Lol no, same with Nazis

>>714310913
>maybe the issue isn't the style of government but these people that keep doing this to economies?
OY VEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY this is extremely anti-semetic goy!

>>714303813 (OP)
The other stores are like Paramount+. They will only ever have a small selection of games that they own.
Steam is a pure distributor that hosts games from all over the place.
I will not allow the cable-ification of vidya.

>>714308087
Anon, that 700k you pulled out of your ass is assuming that the value of money stays the same when you divide it.
But the moment you divide money "equally" prices will adjust to the new average buying power and you'll be exactly where you were before except elites won't have the power to steer work anymore. Which isn't as good of a thing as you think because the will of the masses is pretty retarded.

>>714310172
That’s literally not a thing we want, Riot Games, Hoyoverse, Nexon and mobile gaming have communitys outside the Steam community. Features are not the reason. This is clearly a YOU problem if you decided to only play games on Steam.

>>714310913
Obviously. But communism has a lot more issues than capitalism and makes it easier for the kikes to get rich.

>>714312481
Slutty officewear, next question

>>714303813 (OP)
Why can't I just buy game files straight from company websites without making some gay account? Give me that option and I'll do that.
I'm not managing 10 different gay accounts just to play video games so until you let me just buy games directly with no bullshit you'll just have to give Gaben his 30%.

>>714312483
>MUH PAID MODS

Which are gone after the backlash and haven't been seen since. only Beth kept going with it with Creation Club.

>>714312246
>>714312337
So we agree. The first argument, that communism is a scary boogeyman that forces everyone to be equal, is retarded and fake and gay and should be disregarded? Sick!

Democratic socialism is the way. Now that we all agree its not Straw Communism you can learn what it is, who platformed it historically (Republicans before they were co-opted in the 80s by corporations, in no small part thanks to Nixon's corruption in the prior decade and selling out the US dollar), and why we unironically need to return to the US' prosperity in the early 1900s through to the 1960s.

POV: gabe newell if the world liked owning their games

Twittertards aren't people, OP is a faggot. Always bully twittertards.

>>714312674
what's it look like when game increase it's price due to inflation

>>714303813 (OP)
>Uplay Ubisoft
Oh look, it's another *someone (probably you) tried to log from [SOUTHEAST ASIA] country* email.

>>714303813 (OP)
Steam did it first and best. I'll give GOG some slack too but the rest of them are just aids in service by comparison.
Yes I know steam aint perfect, just more perfect than the rest.

Let me flip the question.

Why not?
>BUT GOG
Yeah okay I buy there too but fhey don'f have a mandatory launcher, do they?

>>714303907
*slaps knees*
well thats the thread for today

>>714312838
no, I just ignore anything you are saying because you are making up bullshit to pretend to argue against with more shit.
go fuck off to pol, commie.
your genocidal ambitions will be welcomed there.

>>714303813 (OP)
They either have nothing good in them, have a frustrating to use launcher, or have bad business practices at the expense of their customers.

>>714303813 (OP)
I like GOG too

>>714312483
>nothing but goodwill and thanks
That's a bit dishonest.
The modders with patreon links today are basically the modders with "please consider donating! click on my paypal link below" of yesteryear.

>>714312838
any time a socialist talks about democracy they really just mean a fake one where their vote always wins.
every fucking time communists lose a democratic vote on ANYTHING they shit themselves in rage over it like they do in the american elections.
they did the same thing in spain JUST before the civil war, trying to overthrow the ENTIRE government because the fascists got a mere two seats in their entire parliment.

democracy is nothing more than a tool to fool idiots, as far as communists are concerned.

>>714312838
>socialism
No. Everything with socialism in its name happily sacrifices the individual.

>>714312896
I mean, if Steam didn't take off Valve would still just be making video games like they used to

>>714313554
>>714313962
>>714314016
As was predicted. Too retarded for the conversation.

>>714312649
Mobile "gamers" different from PC gamers. See the "don't you guys have phones" clip.
It's pointless to compare the two.

>>714314016
you just know at some point they are gonna try to sell people on "ETHICAL socialism" or some other stupid buzzword tacked onto the same fucked system that will always take over.

>>714314097
aw look he's raging because people don't want to stoop to his level and prove him wrong for the 500000th time.

>>714303813 (OP)
what a shitty photoshop

>>714314016
And? That's not a commie thing to do. The internet has collectively sacrificed individuals all the time. Just look at any lolcow, specially ones like CWC.

>>714314097
I am not obligated to post the equivalent of a mathematical proof every time one of you faggots tries to make 2+2 = 22
Smart people than you have tried this and I have crushed them with 15 minutes of research.
You are nothing more than the latest loser demanding to be taken seriously because you are too stupid to even look into your own ideas.

>>714312926
...uhh I dunno but my heart tells me big dick, for how you're getting bent over

Steam has an amazing track record, the others have had multiple issues over the years. Here is Epics recent one.

>>714310913
>The same people
QUI?

>>714312734
the fat kike poisoned the well forever. imagine asking mod makers to
>get a measly 20% of proceeds, corpos get the rest
>have to surrender your copyrights
>responsible for maintaining your mod forevermore. can't just release and forget
>first thing that happened when the system launched was random cunts started reuploading others' mods and claiming all credit
it's indefensible and you're a fucking cocksucker on par with a tendie

>>714314097
here, let me take pity on you for a second.
your entire fucking idea can be boiled down to a centralized system where you own nothing and there are endless levels of boards of fuckwits who need to vote on everything.

nothing will ever get done because there will always be a committee that NEEDS to vote on it to justify their existence.
congrats loser, owned in 5 seconds of research.

>>714312385
if you are not above 30 you are a zoomoid

>>714314674
>endless levels of boards of fuckwits who need to vote on everything
NTA but this incompetence exists in pretty much every form of government.
>t. gov't job in America that had a 3 hour meeting last month about planning a meeting.

>>714303813 (OP)
I just use epic for their freebies
Free stuff is free stuff ya know?

>>714303813 (OP)
Because the only one of them that has any reason to exist is gog for reviving old games steam ignored. By the time any other competitor decided they'd build an online computer games store there was no reason for them to do so because steam had it handled and yet they went ahead and now you either ignore games or have to have more launchers.

>>714310062
Advantage as in having more time to be objectively superior?

>>714314674
Literally did not happen when we did it for 6 decades you fucking retard lmao.

>>714314253
This is unironically why 4chan is the safest place on the internet to be a neurodivergent. Every other website will crucify people for being autistic, but you can be a sperg on 4chan and indulge in all of your autistic interests and hobbies without anyone sifting through your post history and making a wiki about how weird you are. Every other option for social media, despite claiming to be more inclusive and safe, is quick to initiate witch hunts for people that aren't seen as normal

>>714315014
exactly. and under that fuckwits idea it would spread even further and become thought of as a good thing instead of being bitched about NOW as a bad thing.

>>714315116
literally has been happening endlessly you stupid fuckwit. you just cherry picked a temporary example and framed it so it looks better.
nothing you do is new.

>>714315063
Contracting AIDS is free too, you should go do that

>>714308087
>But yall are too retarded for that conversation
How do you people still not realize how hard you shoot yourselves in the foot?

>>714315543
its always funny to see communists come in with the "listen up, you are all stupid and I am the smart one with the special idea that will save you poor peasants" attitude.

>>714303813 (OP)
To be fair, steam as a software has become a slow as fuck piece of shit the moment they abandoned their own VGUI framework for their launcher and turned it into a chrome application. But then again, the steam chat was abysmal when it first launched too and it's now at least usable.
But we are not talking about the launcher software. We are clearly talking about what games does the platform offer and at how much convenience, at the answer is still steam.

>>714303813 (OP)
because they dont realize that they arent competing with Steam when it first launched, they're competing with them today

Origins threatens to nix your library if you dont login often enough
Ubisoft does similar and has the disadvantage of being largely limited to Ubisoft games
Epic is even worse; Epic is building their strategy specifically around attempting to show Steam as inferior while not bringing anything new to the table, and everyone sees through it

>>714315249
>literally has been happening endlessly you stupid fuckwit. you just cherry picked a temporary example and framed it so it looks better.
"A-all the times democratic socialism works doesn't count! Please only pay attention to socialist countries I either deliberately conflate with dem-soc policy to poison the conversational well or am too stupid to know the difference! Please ignore all of scandinavia right now as well!"

Actual fucking retard.

>>714315868
>dude this thing worked for like... a little while in a limited way
>lets scale it up and ruin everything like all the OTHER times it was scaled up and ruined everything!
niggers gonna nig.

>>714315868
>communists be like "I'm not like the other girls"

>>714316024
>1/4 of the entire history of the united states is a "limited" time bro trust me bro this oligarchy we're speedrunning is how all great nations thrive bro haha Rome? never heard of her bro

You goyslop sucking corpo slaves deserve what's coming.

>>714303813 (OP)
>Got there first
>Relatively little drama or bullshit, they sell games
>Tons of quality of life features for game like steam input letting you unfuck control schemes, or get controller support on shit that doesn't have it
>Some of this shit is free to use for non-steam games run through it
>Don't have to fuck with cross compatibility across store fronts or consoles, because everyone uses steam
>Generally good customer support, I've never had a problem that took longer than 2 days to fix
>Enforces pro-consumer practices onto people who want to sell through it
If you're not first, you're last, and can only get ahead if the current leader fucks something up bad.
Steam hasn't done this, as competitor after competitor fails to understand, and shoots themselves repeatedly by falling into pitfall after pitfall.

>Steam has features, porn games and supports linux
>GoG has porn games and no DRM
>Timmy doesn't even have reviews
>who gives a fuck about EA/Ubishit games
I'm staying on team Steam/GoG.

>>714303813 (OP)
Because it works. It just fucking works.
The others don't fucking just work.

Also fuck them on principle for holding games hostage to try to force me to use their platform. That only makes me not want to use their platform even more.

>>714316508
alright, looked into your bullshit.
the democratic communism of the 1900's in america was nothing more than a group of retards who formed the socialist party who clearly didn't like the republicans way of doing things.
so the republicans were not being democratic socialists, because the democratic socialists didn't agree with them
BTFO in 5 seconds again, loser.

This is why you lying retards aren't worth the effort.
you don't even research what you are claiming and just try to twist words around.

>>714316873
>porn games
not really. they've rejected god knows how many despite complying with the law. even non-porn games. they really hate anime-style games for some reason

>>714316873
GoG is unironically great for the computer illiterate to use.
My mom's completely unable to use anything that runs through damn near anything else, but she can run roller coaster tycoon on her laptop after I set it up for her.
So.
Good niche for GoG. Maybe not the most lucrative niche, but a niche nontheless.

>>714304062
I miss floppy disks...

>>714308709
This. Every other platform copies a Steam that is years in the past, rather than the current, endlessly built upon Steam that pulverizes these shitty 'competitors'. Steam is king because Steam used to suck shit, but they continuously improved aspects of it over like 20 years.

vehemently hating epic is just bizarre. Ive gotten so many games for free from them, and /v/ acts like you dont have to put in personal data every time you buy something from steam

>>714315734
>To be fair, steam as a software has become a slow as fuck piece of shit the moment they abandoned their own VGUI framework for their launcher and turned it into a chrome application.
Do you have absolutely anything to substantiate that? Because I have absolutely no problems with speed on Steam UI refresh. Shit loads fast, and now UI elements work at your displays refresh rate so everything is butter smooth.
Moving to chromium was a necessity to keep feature parity between Windows, Mac and Linux. Maintaining 3 native UI's would have been a nightmare.

>>714311486
Epic gives me 20% cash back for every purchase.

Steam gives me imaginary funbux to buy emojis for a chat nobody uses.

>>714312649
>Riot Games
>Hoyoverse
>Nexon
Congratulations, you managed to name publishers that can actually afford to have their own social community sites for their games. Now what about for all the itty bitty little guys? Or games that don't have multiplayer features? Or games that don't have an active community at all?

>>714303813 (OP)
I want to play my games on a tv with a controller and never touch my mouse or keyboard. Steam lets me do this like 90% of the time while the other stores don’t.

>>714317669
Nobody hates epic for giving away free games anon. What a bizarre strawman you've set up.
It's the anti-competitive nature of their service (exclusivity, poor developer toolset, poor features) and spending 20 years shitting on PC gaming that people dislike them for.
>>714317845
That 20% is nothing more than the tax you pay for owning a game on an objectively inferior platform. I'd rather pay the 20% to own something on steam lmao.

>origin
more EA slop that blatantly lacks a commitment to be a non-EA marketplace
>epic
habitually incapable of having its shit together, the only impressive thing they've done is manage to have a UI that's somehow worse than EAs slop - so bad that they couldn't even bribe people with free games
>ubisoft
why is this even being considered a contender? even the google play store would have been a better option

Steam doesn't even do much all that well, but they're they only that does both the basic things every single end user wants:
>marketplace accessibility
>library accessibility
Nobody wants to visit multiple storefronts and use multiple logins, and nobody wants a cluttered mess of oversized icons and animated ads just to find they game they want to play.
Plug-and-fucking-play.
Why the fuck would I use a service that doesn't seem to want to let me use the service?

>>714317674
>Do you have absolutely anything to substantiate that?
no

>>714318017
>exclusivity,
all of which have come to steam
>poor developer toolset
not that anyone on /v/ is a dev anyway
>poor features
like what? I go to my library, download the games, and play them

Steam and Valve have dragging the gaming industry forward more than anyone else.
>Steam workshop
>In home streaming
>Auto game updates
>Web streaming to phone
>Community Profiles
>Best review system
>Curators
>Holiday sales events
>Community profiles
>Group chat
>Voice chat
>Steam overlay
>Big picture mode
>Best controller support
>Best game library tools
>Play specific game versions
>Remote play together
>Best friends list
>Achievements
>Franchise pages
>Screenshots and cloud storage
>Cloud saves
>Mobile app
>Mobile chat app
>Livestreaming
>Streaming features
>Community guides
>Community forums
>Steam marketplace
>News hub
>Store discovery
>Music player
>Steam OS
>Steam Deck
>Open about game metrics
>Steam inventory
>SteamVR
>Proton
>Gamescope
>Steam Datagram Relay
>AMD driver improvements
>Gift cards
>Wallet
>Linux Support
>Non-steam game / pirated game support
inb4
>it's all social media shit
It's not, you're just coping.

>>714316508
>"you deserve whats coming!"
oh look, another "im not like the other girls" commie turned out to be another retard threatening a violent revolution
just like the other girls

>>714318250
>all of which have come to steam
removing choice isn't a good customer experience anon
>not that anyone on /v/ is a dev anyway
epic don't even host a CDN for devs, you have to make and host your own if you develop for EGS.
>like what?
see >>714318308
Features gives platforms value. If you don't value the features of a platform, then you might as well pirate. You're getting no value for your money.

>>714303813 (OP)
Steam Workshop and Steam Community are the bedrock to why the other launchers fucking suck. Steam has its own social media and a loyal dedicated fanbase of 23 years. You can also get the cheapest games from cd key resellers.

>>714318490
yah you want to know how great the steam mobile app is? I had to download the fucking steam CHAT app just to keep using friend messages WHICH IT ALREADY HAD

>>714317845
this brokie creaming himself on a 20% rebate lmaoooooo

>>714317845
Steam Keys are better

>>714317845
>earn 20% epic rewards at checkout on every FORTNITE, ROCKET LEAGUE, AND FALL GUYS PURCHASE
You're a disingenious fucking moron who can't read fine print. Enjoy your 20% back on your Fortnite skins and Fall Guys you imbecile LOL Please don't install steam because we don't need more dipshits on the community.

>>714318638
It was done for security

>>714317019
>the democratic communism
Demsoc is not communism. Retard. The democratic socialist platform of 1908 was the Republican platform. It splintered into the Bull Moose and in general, that policy's legacy was carried over to the Democrats post WW2 with the New Deal - one of the most popular policy platforms of the entire US history which ushered in the current era of prosperity of which the decay you now revel in thanks to oligarch parasites whittling away at it since before your retarded ass was born.

But hey at least you thumbed through wikipedia good work.

>>714313074
>>714315008
No they didn’t newfag, Gamespy was created first, Blizzard had it first, Riot Games had it first. Valve came in dead last.

>>714318792
>Steamie doesn't know it's 20% off for EVERY GAME until September
Have fun paying more money dumbass.

>>714320115
He listed all of the games worth having on that shit platform.

>>714320115
Only a poorfag obsesses over saving a couple bucks on his 60 dollar games. Tim Sweeney, is that you?

>>714303813 (OP)
steam/valve created the whole digital pc market

>>714320310
>Saving $12
>"a couple bucks"
Enjoy pissing away money so you can show off your achievements to your furfag friends.

>>714316671
>pro-consumer
OK American but we Australians will never forget Valve Criminal acts that they took the case into the courts. All the way to the top judges.

Never forget the lies of “Owning games” and Germany force them to tell the truth.

Valve currently “delayed” Blue Archive release.

They are allowing scammers to upload “games”.

The “pro-consumer” list goes on and on.

>>714303813 (OP)
>no GAAG
hmm i wonder who was behind the post

steam is bloated and has shitty design but it's the best we have

>>714303813 (OP)
>Ubisoft
I think that one speaks for itself

>Epic Games Store
They don't provide a lot of services that Steam provides (screen recording, chat, user marketplaces, forums that are horrible for everything except for troubleshooting issues). The UX is also absolutely atrocious, to the point that I use Steam specifically because of its horrible UX. Browsing new titles is a slog since they have a limited number of them per page and use a game's full box art instead of using a more reasonable thumbnail or list view, and editing tags to refine your searches while casually browsing their catalog snaps the page back to the top each time that you add or remove a tag. There's no amount of free shit in the world they could give me to tolerate their abomination of a storefront and I think it's a joke to call them a competitor to Steam.

I don't think Steam's store browser is much better, mind you. Both of them waste a lot of visual economy, but Steam at least has their advanced search option that has a more compact list of games and (most importantly) doesn't snap you back to the top of the page every time you add or remove a tag. You can actually *find* new games on Steam without having to explicitly know that they exist, while you need to scroll past whatever slop Epic is pushing.

>The third one
I don't know what that is, sorry to say.

Steam? Ideal.
GOG? Yessir.
itch.io? For indies, yes.
HumbleBundle? Occasionally.

Epic? Never unless it's literally the only option.

>>714317869
You mean Ubisoft who owns a esports site community.

EA FIFA fanbase

Rockstar NBA fanbase

Sonys sports teams

Konami TCG tournaments

ETC, ETC, ETC.

Those tiny companies with millions of dollars and millions of paying customers.

>>714320087
ok, election tourist

>>714320087
>Riot Games had it first
Huh?

>>714320448
>>714318308
>Never played in the 2000s
Gamespy bitch

>>714319821
no, the democratic socialist platform of the time was literally called the socialist party, you lying little faggot.

>>714303813 (OP)
peters pants are blue

>>714320115
>until September
FUCKING LMAO

>>714321775
Sad part is it barely worked kek

>>714321086
AAAAAAH nostalgia blast!
I spent so much time on Planet Half-Life specifically it was practically my home page. Same exact format (because it was all gamespy)

>>714321091
My God the genius on display..... I kneel!

>>714312926
Winter clothes or something?

>>714315063
Why not just pirate and get ANY GAME YOU WANT for free instead of settling for the scraps your corporate overlords give you?

Steam has large sales. Epic gave discounts but they would be for random games you may or may not be interested in. Origin gave you fucking nothing. Ubisoft is just clunky to deal with - I got good sales when I bought anno 1800 but it's laborious as hell to log into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpHmhh2iO4
Really that's a lot of the issue - steam started in 2003, and so it got to do learning pains back in 2003-2004. 2005 is when it started to sell non-valve games according to this vid, with 2006 being the major digital sales shift.

Uconnect started in 2012
EA origin started in 2011.

So Steam had a (if 2005) 6-7 year head start. Same reason Netflix is ahead of other streamers

>>714303813 (OP)
There's something about those types of X posts that feel very disingenuous: they ask a question that they already know the answer to. They pretend they're an agitator, but they're doing it for the purpose of engagement.

I've seen this a few times before, someone takes a screenshot of a retard on twitter, you go look up the original post and it turns out they were only pretending.

>>714320491
That's quite literally 1/8 of my hourly wage. Must suck being a poorfag and worrying about saving money to use an inferior platform. Like I said, stay out.

>>714303813 (OP)
Because they're shit and don't offer anything that Steam doesn't to make them an actual competition

>>714303813 (OP)
Steam enabled me to move to Linux full time. They have my best interests at heart.

>>714322471
>zero arguments
>knows he is a lying commie
>doesn't even TRY to argue that the republicans mysteriously were the "real" democratic socialists
>ignores basic history
Pathetic fucking losers, all of you communists

>>714303907
>Next stupid question.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!

>>714323867
Because modern social media encourages it, as you mentioned, for engagement.
In the past, you would make a forum post to discuss the differences and you'd get a lot of well thought out, deep dive replies.

Have you ever seen a video where a bunch of YouTube or Twitch streamers are all in a room together and they all want to be the centre of attention so they're constantly throwing out one liners over the top of each other? That's what modern social media is like.

>>714321086
>five finger fillet
I remember that shit. never found it again

>>714303952
If this was true everybody would just use GOG Galaxy or some other launcher that syncs all libraries. But they largely don't. Steam is simply better than its competitors. It's not that deep.

Didn't even mention gog even for a meme? If people put so much effort into not killing games then they should take that action into actually owning their games with gog.

>>714303813 (OP)
It was thanks to Steam that the PC gaming stopped being around 6% of the gaming market and become around 50%. Everything that came after Steam can't match what Steam can do these days.

>>714325953
You don't actually own your games on gog, sorry but it's limited licences all the way down
>Inb4 but I can download them and use them forever
There's the same as steam, steam is not DRM, and Goldberg shows this to be true

>>714303813 (OP)
>EA
Do they sell anything besides EA shit?
>Epic
Tried buying their way into becoming top store instead of making anything good.
>Ubisoft
lol, they have a store?

>>714303813 (OP)
First mover advantage.

>>714320821
Whenever I see a game releasing exclusively on Epic, my first thought is "Ah, its coming to PC next year!"

>>714325301
>zero arguments
Nigga I gave you the tools to succeed. From there your failure to grasp this simple shit is on you.
>doesn't even TRY to argue that the republicans mysteriously were the "real" democratic socialists
Case in point lmao. The Republican platform of 1908 is a google search away my friend. They were the leading progressive party before the 1950s, because progressives back then aligned with smaller government, unions, and democratized powers for the working class. And that you don't understand what democratic socialism is and how its platform is the same fucking thing is again, your fucking retarded asses fault.

>>714307761
Shut tf up lmao. You're using Steam right now. Fuck you.

>>714309882
Microsoft are generally more pro-consumer than Sony or Nintendo

it wasn't the case 20 years ago but Sony and Nintendo have since copied all of Microsoft's greedy policies and made them even worse

>>714303813 (OP)
Stupidity and compliance.
Every one of those launchers are trash, but I'll castrate myself before I defend fucking Steam
It turned PC gaming into an app store. Fuck these DRM software and go back to launching games from .exes

>>714326694
notice the lack of democratic socialism in those words?
because they werent democratic socialists, stupid.
the socialists were.
stupid nigger

>ubisoft
globohomo europoors
>epic games
globohomo chinks
>origin
globohomo kikes

>>714303813 (OP)
Oh, I'll explain
>Ubisoft
Wanted to nuke your entire game library if you didn't log in often enough and wants to remove games from your library
>Origin
They killed the service for no reason to force everyone to use EA app and then took away your game library.
>Epic
Lack of selection of games to buy, but they give me free games so whatever, I'll let the Fortnite kids keep paying for my free games.

>>714326694
its really not a good look when you refuse to talk about the literal democratic socialists that were alive and well and didn't agree with the republican party you keep claiming were the democratic socialists.

>>714328132
I hit post too soon.
Anyways, worse steam has ever done is force my account in private after some faggot goes on a reporting spree for whooping their ass in a game for 6 months...
But I don't use steam to socialize, I use it to play games, so whatever.

>>714325635
>Steam is simply better than its competitors. It's not that deep.
Then why is it better? It should be easy to answer.

>>714328915
>>714318308

>>714318308
>>Auto game updates
fuck you you fucking cunt. being forced to update is an anti-feature

>>714329298
you can disable it.

>>714303907
FPBP

>>714303813 (OP)
What Family Guy character is gog?

>>714308709
>Because they dont do anything other than have exclusives
this, which if anything paints them in an annoying light like they're gonna force me to download their nothing-launcher just to run this game I wanna play.
rather than it being an enticing deal I feel coerced, if their platform was as full featured as steam it would be different I think.

>>714329805
Adam West when he was still with us.
Actually, Adam West is a good for pre-Zombie FG. Like Chef in Southpark.

Those two are your GoGs, memories of the past that brought joy.

>>714303813 (OP)
even pc users arent immune to consolewarfaggotry

>>714311870
>Steam is too big to remain privately owned forever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_private_non-governmental_companies_by_revenue
where do you niggers get this idea that companies HAVE to go public?
steam doesn't even make it onto this list because it's too small.

>>714330323
That's not true, Steam works with idort, if I was just team EGS + idort, it would be like double dipping a Sony library. :)

>>714303813 (OP)
Have you actually tried these other stores? They all fucking suck.

The only one that actually tried to challenge steam was epic, which they did by giving away free games instead of improving their platform.

>>714303813 (OP)
Because this >>714303907 also Steam actually follows consumer protection law and privacy laws.
It has sales, runs offline, has modding built into it and you can back up your games as .isos, and sync your library with GoG.

>>714303813 (OP)
Only chance for a new storefront to overturn Steam is if they came in strong with pro-consumer policies, but companies are allergic to that.

>>714303813 (OP)
Steam is the least bad, ubisoft and epic aren't trustworthy

>>714308087
The median household income is $80k, how exactly is $620k generated, does it come out of the air?

Posting graph to show just how stupid you are, the majority of the top 1% don't even earn that much officially. Go ahead post some more, clowns are good entertainment

>>714325112
No they don’t, Proton is the reason games work on Steam. Valve altered the Proton code to always contain Steam Client. You are installing spyware on a Linux machine that you wanted to avoid. Your games get broken when they are not Unity or UE compatible games.

Stop believing in those lies.

>>714310913
In communism without Jews inevitably someone else will try to take all the money, white people aren't a monolith there will always be bad actors and the people at the heart of movements are comprised almost completely of bad actors who want to be at the top of the new regime

>>714325635
>iT’s BeTtEr gUyS
You are stupid if you’re ok with installing the Steam Client, installing the Publisher launcher and installing their spyware into your computer. All because you believe Valve cares.

>>714303813 (OP)
Forget Netflix vs Blockbuster. Steam's rise beats the ever loving shit out of it.

Anon, what do PCs run on? Windows. Windows. The PC market was dependent on Windows. It still is, but infrastructure exists now to make it easier to get off windows. That just wasn't a thing in the 2000s. No, Steam in this scenario is like if Netflix appeared as one of dozens of other proto storefronts while the US postal service also had their own storefront, but they went all in on consoles so hard with Xbox they forgot to make Games for Windows Live actually good, abandoned it completely, and let the random jackasses that made Half-Life take over everything.

Valve came out of fucking nowhere.

Had Microsoft said 'lol, we're going act like PC is a console and monopolize what's on the platform harder than Nintendo did on the NES" the PC market's response would have been to suck off Microsoft until they became Macrohard. Instead, they fucked off for a decade, letting Valve build up the money and infrastructure to where now you almost can't succeed on PC without daddy Gaben's approval. The rest of the market at the time? What were faggots like Pitchford doing? What was Tim Sweeny saying?
>"Oh, we're done with PC. PC gaming is dead."
Ten years too late to the party, they realize they fucked up, but then push their own gay little storefronts with half the features and twice the ass, now with jackasses like Pitchford saying...
>"Oh yeah, Steam will probably be a dead storefront in 5-10 years."
Valve didn't climb to the top of all storefronts. Everyone else just dug themselves into holes. There are only a handful of niche storefronts more consumer friendly than Steam (like GoG). Speaking of, why is GoG even on here alongside EA and Ubisoft? Forget your recency bias and go back to when CDPR was a AA studio making Witcher 2. EA had like a 15 year headstart, so why is GoG outperforming Origin at all?

>>714315105

Valve took a huge risk with Steam and innovated before anyone else did.

I'm happy for them.

>>714331412
>The least bad
7 LAWSUITS
1 CRIMINAL TRIAL

They are the worst

>>714332873
They did nothing, Chat was already invented. Streaming was invented, gaming was invented, store websites like GOG and Gamespy was invented.

They did nothing!

>>714332432
Proton was created by valve/steam retard, it's a fork of wine.

I don't like any of them.

>>714332919
this is a literal chink propaganda piece lmao
>grammatical mistakes
>formatted for phones
tells you everything you need to know

>>714334056
Technically it Valve and Codeweavers codeveloping proton

acquihiring the DXVK and wine people is probably the only good thing gay ben has done.
When I moved to Linux, I didn't even bother with videogames til recently.

>>714308087
>Ya'll
Opinion discarded

>>714317423
Blinded by nostalgia

>>714304062
Nothing is stopping you from burning your games onto a CD or SD card. It's just retarded.

>>714303813 (OP)
I check reviews on the page before I buy any game, so I can see how many hours people have played and what their opinion is of the game. If I see too many negative reviews then I won't buy the game. If Origin, Epic and so on offered this on their store page then I would consider using them.

>>714303813 (OP)
Does Origin even still exist?

>>714335683
I'll never understand why yanks type it as
>"ya'll"
instead of
"yall"

>>714336542
It's Y'all, as in "You all". "Ya'll" would imply "Ya-All".

>>714334318
The lawsuits and one patent infringement is real. Valve is a criminal company.

>>714309882
Playstation occasionally offers refunds for blunder of the century type games like Minds Eye

>>714336608
Sounds like some northerner ice-talk. I'll stick with yall.

>>714337092
Hilarious considering that saying y'all is popularly attributed to the south, with folksy charming sentences like "Y'all have a blessed day now y'hear?"