Steambros they're mocking us

>Steam expert

>>714913701 (OP)
>netflix
Monthly subscription for unwatchable slop
>Steam
You buy access to video games that you can play without a recurring fee (not all are slop)

That's a difficult mystery to crack.

Why would you care?

I have over 900 games and idgaf what some nerd says about my backlog, which is massive.

>>714913701 (OP)
This nigga is known as a steam expert, I've won forever

>>714913701 (OP)
This is why you should switch to GamePass, goy. At least there you won’t have to pretend to own your games

>>714914217
>You buy access to video games that you can play without a recurring fee (not all are slop)
How long is that access?

>>714915465
Longer for netflix, that's for sure.

>>714915725
So Steam allows the purchase of an indefinite licensed copy of a game?

>>714913701 (OP)
Wtf does that mean

>>714915465
The clock is ticking until Gaben dies, then it's sold to Microsoft (back in gayming bayby) and then you'll have to pay a monthly fee to play the games you paid a licence to. Yes that's right, you will effectively be on gay pass, problem die hard gamers? :^)

>>714915465
Until Steam servers are taken offline (you'll be dead)

I use a heuristic where I will not, under any circumstance, buy a game unless I want to play through it immediately after the purchase. The only exception is if the game is under $5, then I'm okay with letting it sit on my backlog. I started using Steam in 2008, and started using this heuristic in 2012. I've literally spent less money from 2013-2025 than I did on those first four years because I would just load up my cart with a bunch of shit every time there was a big sale. Most of my games that are unplayed on my library are also from that initial period

>>714913701 (OP)
>being called a "Drunken sailor" is insulting
What are you, some kind of pussy?

>>714915465
You've got until Gayben dies and then hope his son isn't a retard or he transfers ownership to someone who isn't a retard.

>>714915950
Essentially, yes. You buy a game on Steam, you will have access to it as long as Steam exists. The publisher can lose the rights to sell the game, but if you have a license on your account, you can still download it even if nobody else can buy it.

>>714915465
Forever.

>>714915814
this time the expert is right, stop buying games.

I stopped using steam because of this
I would spend a hundred dollars during a sale and then not even play most of the games

>>714916156
I'd love to see this such a scenario tested in court. Particularly an EU court.

>steam expert

>steamies are paypig cucks
water is wet

>>714917014
That's not a steam problem, that's (you) being stupid and buying shit you don't need

>>714913701 (OP)
Never buy a game unless you're going to play it right away, right here and now immediately.
Even if it's 90% off.
Even if you've heard good things.
Even if you're SURE you'll play it after you finish your current game.
It's just going to clog your backlog and waste your money.
Play the games you want to play, don't fall for FOMO.

>>714917589
You paid a licence, not a game.

>>714917881
Nah it's because of the way valve advertised and gamified its sales
I never had that problem on other platforms, just Steam

>>714918082
I only buy games I intend to finish, so again it's on you

>>714913701 (OP)
>drunken sailor comparison
>picture of the soldier
For some odd reason, seeing those two together makes me oddly okay with this comparison.

>>714916886
Bloody bastard delete this, it conflicts with my narrative

>>714913701 (OP)
>Steam expert
You can't make this shit up. Valve wins because it's consumer friendly and doesn't try to nickle and dime you with subscriptions. They just throw up massive sales which makes people buy 100 bucks of games in a flash because they get like 12-15 games for that pricepoint. It's obvious as fuck.
>Give people what they want
>win.

>>714916373
I going to say, being called a drunken sailor sounds awesome, especially when there's a whole sea shanty about it.
https://youtu.be/qGyPuey-1Jw

>>714918037
An indefinite license.

>>714916325
This is how people are supposed to spend money on games.

>>714918321
It should have been Demoman, dumbass

>>714918768
calm down scout

>>714918642
Steam was also the first to pull of a non-offensive online storefront and being first counts for a whole lot.

what problem does netflix has other than other players entering the market?
Netflix makes more money than Steam, their issue is that have to reinvest most of it

>>714918886
>The first
More like the only. Name another one. Timmy his store is garbage and what the fuck else is there outside of the few legit cdkey stores who sell steam keys.
Nothing comes even close in terms of features and support. Literally every modern controller works on Steam, recently these nigga's dropped great footage recording tools. Point being, it's all for the sake of the client and not the greedy publishers. They are also often on the forefront of combatting shady business practices, like the recent AI debacle. Valve made mistakes along the way, there is no denying that. And they opened the microtransaction floodgates on some level but at least they kept it palpatable. Other shitters ran with it and made it horrible. Gaben still deserves every yacht he fucking wants.

>>714919389
GoG maybe?

>>714916156
>gay pass
W-will I need to prove I'm gay to access the games I already bought?

>>714919513
Nah, you'll be ok.

>>714919496
GoG is an outlyer for DRM free games. It's fine but you are basically just getting the setup of the game and that's it. I have nothing against GoG but it's not competing with Steam on any real level, it's a different deal and GoG galaxy (optional client) comes with virtually no additional features.

>>714916156
not gonna happen, as long as steam is a money printer you have to do literally nothing and can buy yourself a new house every week.
Not even MS is retarded enough to fuck over all users in one go. The service might get more shit over time, but at least most of the stuff you own would be fine.
They managed to scare off people from Skype, but there was nothing that tied people to Skype either

>>714914992
you have less than 900 games you moron

>Gaben dies
>one of his sons takes over
>he has zero interest in running Steam
>just makes it public or sells it to the highest bidder
>everything goes to shit
I know it's coming

>>714920210
The issue is that Steam only exists the way it does because Valve is a privately-owned company. Steam rakes in cash consistently, but its actual profit growth is fairly slow because it's already reached every corner of every relevant demographic and basically cannot expand any further without the market itself growing. This is great for people who just want to get rich off of it, but horrible for investors because they don't want steady profits, they want quarterly growth. A publicly-owned company put in charge of Steam would have to find some way to get more golden eggs out of the goose, which would not end well for anyone involved.

>Steam expert

>>714915465
forever except tuesdays

>>714913701 (OP)
>>714914217
>>714920793
You people are literally defending a corporate that committed crimes against gamers. Stop it.

>>714918886
Shut up newfag, Gamespy was the first

>>714913853
How do I become a steam expert?

>>714921437
>t. Steam expert

Eh, corpos will come up with any excuse to explain why their dogshit isn't selling.

>>714920793
not every publicly traded company immediately burns bridges.
Steams growth is fine and more importantly highly profitable. What MS might do is waste that money with useless new positions and like I said making the service worse over time.

But fucking over users existing libraries would be the last straw because then they would take peoples reason to stay.
MS knows most people using their product do so because vendor lock in.

>>714913701 (OP)
>>714914217
The problem they don't address in this comparison is availability. When Netflix began it had literally everything you could ever want to watch from a million different movie and tv networks. Then all of those networks realized they could fuck off and make their own streaming services, and audiences flocked to them instead. That's what's been killing Netflix.
Why doesn't Steam have this problem? Because whenever another game company tries to fuck off and make their own Steam, they're unable to replicate its services to an acceptable level and they keep trying to insert chinese botnet rootkits, so gamers don't take to them. Epic is the most recent one to try, and their platform is such a broken pile of shit that their timed "exclusives" basically don't exist until they finally make it to Steam.

>>714920479
>inherit a literal undying moneymaking machine
>selling it
I don't think his sons are that retarded and why would they betray their father's values when they can just outsource the management to someone who gives a shit?

>>714922651
they also can't pull out easily. I'm not sure what the conditions are to remove your game from steam, but the game will stay in everyones library.
You can't drag along your audience to a new service.
You can do something like Ubisoft and EA, but Steam terms don't allow you to sell games somewhere else cheaper.

>>714913701 (OP)
deserved.

you retards have enabled the worst possible timeline and this industry needs a complete restart.

>>714913701 (OP)
I realized I was hoarding years ago and stopped. Now I only buy games I really really want to play. Which hasn't been the case for almost 3 years now. Battlebit being a disappointment contributed to that.

>>714923892
Same. When that stupid French bill tried to get passed that would force Steam to allow you to sell games I was like "damn, if I got even 1 cent per game I'd sell so many!" and then I realized I'd get about $7 for all the games I'd sell and decided instead to just delete them from my Steam library. Now I just keep the games I actually play or might want to someday revisit, which is about 50.

>>714922303
>But fucking over users existing libraries would be the last straw
Not even counting the massive brand damage this would cause, wouldn't it risk the trigger of class action lawsuits if changes to their EULA are made affecting existing licenses purchased?

>>714924386
>wouldn't it risk the trigger of class action lawsuits if changes to their EULA are made affecting existing licenses purchased?
Nope. You signed that the EULA can be changed at any time without notice and you're ok with that.

I'm looking forward to Valve and Steam's fall.
It would destroy PC gaming forever which would be the best thing to happen.

>>714921437
Where's the one about Gabe suing a Rothschild?

>>714922303
>not every publicly traded company immediately burns bridges.
No, but they will nickel and dime the everloving shit out of you in any way they can because the line needs to go up, and needs to go up more than it did last year every year. Intentionally not doing so is literally illegal in the US because of Dodge v Ford and will have the shareholders assraping you in court over it.

>>714921615
8 grueling years of Steam School. Beware: Professor Mary is known to not let people pass.

>>714922651
The problem is mainly like >>714920793 mentioned, Valve is a private company and they made a more or less infinity money machine they can just coast on and slowly improve as needed without having shareholders breathing down their necks and demanding ever increasing growths every quarter. Basically any company that wants to compete with them will be a publicly owned company which means they do and literally cannot compete with Steam on their own level because they'll be forced to start squeezing more and more money out of it or risk the entire thing getting axed.

>>714920440
>what is a console

>>714921615
Step 1: be an idiot.
Step 2: know the right people.

>>714925318
PC Gaming exists because people want to play games on their PCs. This does not go away if a company closes. You are dumb.