Read his meltdown here:
>https://gist.github.com/Kaldaien/c66bf3dca62a5ac63785714f686e60ad

what is special k?

didn't read
*farts*

pirate chads don't have steam accounts

>business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers

HOLY KEK

>>714947347 (OP)
>Special K
As in the cereal brand?

Honestly, that's not a bad idea. I've been having some similar thoughts lately. Deleting my 26 year old steam account is so tempting sometimes. I don't even use it anymore, and he's right about all of it.

>>714947347 (OP)
steamworks is optional, if a game makes you use it that's because the developer put it there. tons of games don't have it

>>714947347 (OP)
LITERALLY no one cares.

>>714947347 (OP)
GOGchads win yet again

>>714947347 (OP)
He's not wrong

>sucking off epic and microsoft
why is he like this?

>>714947506
Got paid by them, me thinks.

>This is the same guy who adds your steam account to a list and sabotages your game, when you run his software if you prove him wrong in an argument and he has a melty about it.

>>714947506
>>714947429
the dude has always been an insufferable autist that keeps having melties

>In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve to keep their DRM client free of system requirement creep, business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.
>I buy games from Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat.

>>714947347 (OP)
thanks for keeping me updated on this extremely criticial piece of news, my fellow chud
and please dont forget to make yet another piratesoftware drama thread again in 5 minutes, it is vital that i must remained updated on what is happening every second in the lives of every single e-celeb
i dont even know who this is but i bet he went woke and then went broke!!
we're winning the culture war keep going

>>714947387
Ketamine and a cereal

>>714947347 (OP)
never go full retard

>>714947347 (OP)
>"games you purchased on a windows 98 machine later had their system requierements bumped up to windows XP, then to windows 7, then ti windows 10..."
only steamdrones could justify something like this

>>714947347 (OP)
He knows that you can just crack old games

No way he wasn't paid to do this

>>714947551

What did he mean by this?

>>714947347 (OP)
Isn't Special K a cereal? I didn't know they had a steam account.

>>714947347 (OP)
>Steam fragmented games, by being one service to have all your games, but shitty subscriptions and gog are the solution, because now you can sub to 10 services and use another store front to...

He is a fucking schizo. Why does everyone who knows how to program eventually turn into their own lite version of Terry Davis?

did he plant people in this thread to agree with his retarded take or something

>>714947347 (OP)
Isn't this the same fag who puts in DRM checks to special k to make sure you don't pirate?

Isnt this the guy that literally activates his malware or something if you piss him off?

>>714947787
>literally activates his malware or something if you piss him off

>>714947347 (OP)
So if I wanted to play Nier Automata again do I still need to install his shit for the game to work?

>hates drm
>puts drm on his software

????????

>>714947765
Yeah. He puts malicious shit in his mods/fixes to fuck with pirated software. A drm.

>steam caters to consumers over developers like ME waahhhhhhhhhhh
kek what a fag

>>714947814
Its true. He used to add peoples steam accounts to a "list" in his Open Sores Special gay program.
If you were on the "list". It fucked up your game and made it crash.
He has been a known spiteful sperg for years now.

>>714947347 (OP)
>Read his meltdown
Geez, another one? No thanks. The guy is a special nutcase.

>>714947814
he had (or still has) a hardcoded blacklist of specific Steam IDs of people he doesn't like embedded that cause his mods to not function or maliciously fuck up the game on the PCs of people with those Steam IDs
He claims you can just 'compile it yourself' to remove that 'feature' but you should not have to compile software from source to remove something that shouldn't be there in the first place.

>>714947506
>GOG
understandable, if my options where GOG or Steam id rather buy from GOG but
>EGS
>MIcrosoft store
>No unnescecary bloat related to DRM
what the actual fuck, the MS store is almost all bloat

>>714947506
Because Valve has made their own service so fucking awful the past few years that we've reached a point where other services are praiseworthy for not being as shitty. People want to talk about all of the features Steam offers, yet community features are useless, workshop suffers all of the problems of nexus with the added benefit of bricking your mod setups when someone gets a mod wiped or account deleted, forums are nothing more than corporate dicksuckers vs ignorant cunts, guides are less valuable than any search of any capacity, and and shit like achievements are meaningless when it's trivial to use an achievement unlocker. Steam is so fucking worthless nowadays that I have to use a third-party overlay just to get the fucking time down to the current second since they are so incompetent that they had to even remove that feature. Chat never works due to refusing to send files/images a third of the time with the infamous reversing progress bar so you need to use a third-party application like discord anyway. Their streaming function still has no features whatsoever, goes down randomly for up to months at a time with no word from Valve, and has the lowest quality and worst delay across all options. This is ignoring that you can spontaneously lose access to all of your games because of arbitrary requirement increases, which makes its whole function as a central store fucking ridiculous.

Valve needs to reverse their Steam build by about 6 to 8 years. Using GOG is better in every way since you get exactly what you need without all of the features you have to resort to third-party software to get a functional version of because they jeeted out as hard as they could. As a bonus, if you contact GOG support, you can talk on the phone with someone who speaks english. If you contact Steam support, you are locked into email with someone in India.

>>714947969
>>714947992
Holy shit that is absolutely insane. What a psycho.

>>714947745
There will always be people who agree with the most insane takes simply because it goes against common sense. They are called contrarians. Any sane person reads this and sees a person having a mettdown over the Steam Input API so he just starts making shit up to make it look less like he's really mad about the Steam Input API. The reason being of course, you would sound like an insane retard if you deleted your steam account over that, especially because you can disable it. Also it's good and most people like it.

>>714947992
He gets away with it, because the Open Sores "community" agree with his methods.

>>714948003
>Because Valve has made their own service so fucking awful the past few years that we've reached a point where other services are praiseworthy for not being as shitty.
????

We're talking about EGS and the Microsoft store.

Didn't this guy specifically ban a few Steam usernames who he got in to arguments with on the Steam Forums, and was a constant simp for DRM like Denuvo? Epig probably hired him.

>>714948003
Nice to see you in the thread special k. Basically nothing you said is a problem. Have a terrible day.

>>714948042
I have over 700 commits to a public open source github and what he's doing is unacceptable, it's more that nobody has any power to stop it

>>714948081
People like this are never paid. They are natural schizos. The easiest way to tell if its mental illness over shilling is if the reason you know of their existence in the first place is they made some type of software that you could use for free.

>>714948003
Jesus shut the fuck up and hit the enter key once in a while, loser

Oh joy another Kaldaien meltdown

>Gets banned from steam forums
>Is such a dick that even the people who use his own tools try not to interact with him unless absolutely necessary because he's that much of a douchebag.

At least he finally let go of steam after bitching about it forever. If he hated it that much since the beginning he should have left sooner

>>714947347 (OP)
Well. He is objectively correct about Steam’s DRM reaching EOL multiple times without the parachute they originally promised. Regardless of how you feel about it or how much of a valve fanboy you are.

>>714947347 (OP)
>anti-piracy nigger moans about steam existing as a drm which cannot be used on a windows 98 system anymore

>>714947347 (OP)
how is that last part steam's fault in any way

Goldberg solves this btw

>>714948205
Wrong.

Why is this guy such a complete fucking autist while Durante successfully founded his own porting studio?

What causes such divergence in modders?

Being anti-Valve but pro-Epic, pro-Microsoft, anything else, is just mental illness.

>>714947745
It's just contrarians being their usual selves

>>714948228

ego its all about ego

>>714948228
Wizard powers unlocked at age 30. Most people can't handle it.

>>714948228
The willingness to accept that you are not a god and other people will make good points and win arguments against you.
Durante takes on board valid criticism.
Kaidaien does not. He is always right because he proclaims it so.
Being an argumentative spiteful sperg does not do wonders for your carrer.

>>714948205
Every single game that only uses steam drm and nothing else is trivially unlocked at this very moment. What the fuck parachute is needed?

>>714948228
Durante actually has people skills and doesn't look down on people for one.

You see this a lot when it comes to this type of software makers they ARE very good (or just autistic) when it comes to making things but when it comes to actual interaction they are usual extremely uptight and retarded. This isn't even a Kaldaien issue, I've seen it everywhere.

>>714948205
That was if valve itself was ever to close then they'd release some unlocker but it's pointless since the dem was never made to be that hard to crack

>>714948205
Steam DRM isn't even real DRM, even a fucking dumbass who never cracked anything before can do it themselves if they looked on google for for 2 second, it's a non issue

>>714948003
!ASF get this cracker off my lawn

>>714947606
What's the demographic of win98 users in 2025 that also have their PC plugged to the Internet and set to auto-update their software?

>>714948361
Think he expects steam to create no-steam cracks for him. He's factually retarded.
Steam's EoL only refers to them going out of business, not operating systems being too much of a ballache to work with.

>>714947347 (OP)
I hate reading. Fuck you, queer.

>>714948470
For some reason they think Valve would tank their reputation and lock people out of their games after Gaben dies.
It is self defeating for them to even think of doing it.
But because every fucking autistic software guy now channels Johnny Silverhand and thinks every corpo would turn supa mega death hilter evil on a whim.
We get retards obsessing over "what if they did put DRM and lock everyone out?"

>>714947387
a program that people use for modding and such
Nier automata modding is where I found it
other than mods its usually basically a patch injector, making games that arent getting updates run better, fix bugs, apply HD textures etc.

>>714947347 (OP)
He should neck himself and Livestream it on streaming platform for kids.

>business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers
What the fuck is this nigger saying? Is he seriously saying "yes I WANT 800 online stores and accounts for each one?"

>They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true and 50,000+ posts and 30+ guides (some of which had shared attribution with multiple accounts) are gone. In less than one month, all of this content went from [deleted] to literally deleted, despite their worthless promise otherwise.
That's your own fault retard. You could have just abandoned the account and left the guides up. You literally screwed over yourself and everyone else because you couldn't keep your autism, DUMBASS

how many people even still use special k anyway?

do we have numbers?

>>714947506
>Defending the Epig and Microshaft stores
I was kind of onboard with his explanation until this shit, how can he be so fucking blind towards the fact that the Windows store is literally LOCKED to W10/W11 and they are going to force the exact same OS upgrade shenanigans that Steam does once they reach EoS, the EXACT SAME thing is happening to the Epic store.

He also calls out the Steam client for being bloated (fair enough, if you don't like the functionality it's impossible to disable it without modding the client) but then he starts sucking off the two other storefronts for having bloated controller drivers baked into them.

It makes no fucking sense, he either needs to be consistent in his beliefs or stop airing them out to the public because he just looks like a massive autistic baby for saying this.

>>714947857
I think you only ever really wanted the special K for Automata just to fix a Shadows value that was set too high, and made older cards run the game poorly. I can't imagine any grafix card made in the last 10, 15 years would have an issue any longer. The problem was with like Nvidia 700 line.
Plus Microsoft paid to have the Automata port fixed, which Sqeenix eventually made available to Steam owners due to constant complaining sent their way

>Its not fair my Commodore 64 should be supported in 2025
Obsolete tech goes in the bin faggots. Upgrade or fuck off.

>>714948820
It is basically irrelevant to run Sperg K as they updated Automata fixing the "issues" his retard program fixed anyway.

I love steam and I have great respect for Valve. With that said, I still keep pirated backups of every game I intend to have for the rest of my life. Some multiple versions for specific reasons such as differences between early access and release. I'd advise many of you to do the same. There's no reason not to. Especially when developers are censoring or removing shit after license expiration, like in the case of Ready or Not or Rockstar.

Buy on Steam for its inconvenience and features. But back up a pirated copy.

>>714947567
/board

>>714948904

convienence*

inb4 Freudian slip from steam haters.

>>714948205
All the stores he recommended have same problem and only gog has a workaround from what I know.

>>714948728
i used it for berseria but realized it was pointless 5 minutes later. his software is pure bloat and provides nothing of vlaue
>muh shaders
ill just use reshade which is the most powerful tool ever thanks to addons and dx11
>muh reflex
ill just use rtss
>muh fps cap
driver
>muh exclusive fullscreen and windows api calls borderless gaming
kys
>muh audio latency sharts
stick it in your ass

>>714948003
Ah yes, the MS store... The only game download client that can literally fill your SSD/HDD with corrupted data and then lock you out of removing it unless you start messing with the fucking OS. Anyone who has ever had PSO2 fuck up its install will know that your just fucked if you used the MS store version of the game.

>>714948803
>bloated
Isnt it just chromium

>>714948353
what the fuck does this guy do that's so special that nobody on the face of the earth can? don't tell me its because he no life something

>>714947387

This dumbass really crying about steam input when its one of the few fully optional parts of the client. Also its devs job to add dualshock input to their games not valves, valve also allows it and even advertises it for you.
>>714947857
His shit is gone
his program and guides are gone
goodbye 2b's ass
>>714948191
a lot of features offered by his tool got integrated into ue5, which made his tool irrelevent and mindbroke him, sad about nier though, game is unplayable, literally, without his tool
>>714948228
durante is an sjw but he doesnt inject it into his work, only his blogposts and interviews
klaiden is a nutjob who made a tool that was the default go to for many things, from reshades to fixing huge swashes of bugs, and then turned his tool into malware

>>714949061
this

>>714947347 (OP)
Based. This is the equivalent of losing TimDog.
He's 1000% right about steam. He's old enough to know what they changed about pc gaming. Most of you were 2 years old when steam released and single handley destroyed pc gaming

>>714948904
>pirated backups
Just copy your clean steam files and replace the steamworks with goldberg.....

>>714949094
>his program and guides are gone
>goodbye 2b's ass
what exactly am I missing out?

>>714947347 (OP)
Sane people don't spent thousands of hours making modding tools for no pay and (pretty much) no fame, so stuff like that is expected.

>>714949076
He was just willing to "fix" PC ports of games in the 2010s to add in shit that nobody really uses or cares about like ultra wide support. When like 1% of people at the time of his hayday even had a curved ultrawide screen let alone played above 1080p.
Other than that, he has done nothing of real note. Other than sperg out constantly about Valve DRM and claims he is a consumer advocate by hyper focusing on """""calling out"""" Valve.

>>714949150

It depends. Sometimes a compressed archive is a better choice. Or a GoG version with extras. But yeah, pirated copy nonetheless.

>>714949094
What the actual fuck are you saying? I played nier automata and I don't know who this guy is or what his tool does. The game was perfectly fine.

>>714947925
>>714947765
>>714947969
What a little rascal. Is he mad because you're not allowed to do that for mods hosted on the steam workshop?

>>714947347 (OP)
Absolutely based. He's right devs didn't drop support window 7 steam did. That means ALL your games can no longer be ran on an OS because valve said so.
Hopefully you dumb niggers start waking up.

>>714949185
He made a bloated tool that you need to use 5% of its features so you could play automata without horrible graphical glitches, really horrible, and crashes, really frequent, and physics being fucked up due to bad fps. His tool allowed that, and his guide told you which 5% to use

>>714948803
He's literally just mad at Steam Input. All the rest of his comments are superfluous. For example he complains about steam DRM but he specifically defends Denuvo, which explicitly puts a shelf life on all your games because they cannot run without Denuvo servers (they don't contain the code to)

Explain to me why this guy hasnt jumped ship to Linux

Why is he so mad at Valve while still developing for Windows

>>714949283
Why are you still using Windows 7?
Real gamers now use Linux and busted out of the Mic$osoft walled garden years ago.
So why should we care if Valve shits on the 7th version of retard garden?

>>714947347 (OP)
In these sad times it would be for the better if we could support Kaldaein directly through his patreon to ensure his wellbeing

>>714949218
anyone else hope ai or something replaces these insufferable fucks?

>>714949229
They fixed it half a decade after its release according to this thread. Dont know how fixed it was but the pc port was a travesty at launch that put arkham knight to shame and was abandoned immediately

>>714947347 (OP)
>steam is a gross evolving blob that has grown to a cancerous totalitarian force on pc that most people don't even know it.

>>714947347 (OP)
>another kaldaien melty
yawn

>>714947347 (OP)
Okay so, aside from the part where this guy unironically recommends the Ubisoft/EA/Epic store over Steam, this entire autism rant is premised off a singular kind of interesting point; if you bought Half-Life 2 in 2004, you can no longer run it on the computer that existed at the time. This is a problem that only gets worse with time because even the best computers in 2004 eventually won't have enough RAM to comfortably run the oldest supported version of Windows/Steam itself. So there's essentially a hardware requirement to Steam that continues shifting.

This is a fair point, and kind of true, but it misses the biggest issue with any kind of online DRM or internet connected service running on older operating systems. Which is that connecting an OS that no longer receives security updates to the internet is a fucking terrible idea. Especially older versions of Windows. Seriously, if you have some old hardware you don't care about, install Windows 98 on it and connect it to the internet. It's like opening a portal to the malware dimension. The sad reality is that a lot of older OSes have irreparable security flaws. Windows 98 compatible software would be a genuine security risk to Valve, and anyone connecting to Steam to attempt to play HL2 on their old Win98 machine would have their machine become a battleground for like 50 different worms before Gorden even gets off the train. It's just not reasonable to expect people to maintain software for OSes that aren't supported anymore. GOG selling old games with no DRM is laudable, but GOG Galaxy, their feature-rich client, requires Windows 8 or newer OSes. It has to, it's just the nature of computing.

>>714949072
Bloated as in the Steam client has a lot of functionality baked into it (Remote play, Steamworks API, all of the community stuff, Workshop, video/audio player, Controller API, etc) and you can't really disable any of it except for the controller API stuff without modding the client itself.

If your an autist like Special K then you'll look at the 2-4 gigs of ram (on windows) that the client is using and think:
>Wow, why is this shit so heavy, why does it clutter the screenspace it uses and why can't I remove the parts that I don't like?

>>714949283
>undefeatable
???? Every game with steam drm gets instantly "cracked" by a simple copy+replace

>>714948630
based

>>714949459
>you can no longer run it on the computer that existed at the time.

Yes you can. Install linux on that computer and it will run just fine.

Why is he mad at Valve when its Microsoft that has to keep W98 safe to use?

>>714949429
I played it at launch, chumbo. I don't remember anything being wrong with it.

>>714949393
A lot of the IT industry's problems as well as gaming would be solved if a lot of people lost their jobs and had to put the fries in the bag.

>>714949520
Almost all the stuff you said is part of the Steam API and all of it doesn't do anything unless you invoke it. The reason steam uses so much ram is because it's a chromium wrapper. It has nothing to do with any of the things you mentioned.

>>714949520
Pretty sure there are headless cli steam clients offered by valve that let you only download and launch steam>>714949521
games. They are made for gaming cafes by offered to everyone

>>714949283
The parachute Valve mentioned had nothing to do with sunsetted versions of windows.

>>714947506
he is not wrong, controller support on steam is non existence
just plugging in controller literally never works, you have to troubleshoot for 30 mins and solution is different for every game

>>714949520
>using
You not knowing how computers work is something I can accept, but he should be smart enough to realize the difference between allocated and actually required RAM.

>>714949606
they'll probably spit in our food or burger king foot lettuce out of spite

>>714949520
You could do -no-browser in the shortcut if you just want access to your library

>>714949352
>>714949352
Why IS there a proprietary input in steam? No other stores have this. It's an OS issue
He raises a completely valid complaint against steam input.

>>714947347 (OP)
everyone gives fat jew too much slack even when he stole your games just because you didnt want to switch to new spyware pajeetos

piracy is always justified and morally right

>>714949670
Quite literally works for me with my dualsense

>>714949580
I think the most ironic thing about him is that he would claim to support Stop Killing Games and then say that Valve has to support Win 7 till the end of time and the heat death of the universe.
Sperg K lives in a constant state of cognitive dissonance.

>>714949670
Thats unironically a windows problem

>>714949757
>playing stolkor 2 chornobol with a controller, the symmetrical one to make things worse
his points have no merit

>>714947347 (OP)
>blogposting on github

>>714949538
That's true but kind of besides the point. You'd still have to install an entirely new operating system rather than just booting up the original machine and double clicking on the desktop icon. There's an appreciable difference.

>>714949610
Yeah this is the big thing, the real issue with Steam is almost 90% the fact that it's dependent on modern pajeet tech like Windows and Chromium. Idling on a blank homepage in Chrome takes up like 2 gigs of RAM, it's fucking insane.

>>714949757
>Why is there proprietary input in steam

There isn't. Steam supplies SDL, which is open source, as a DLL for games. You can use this sdl front end to change buttons on your control, create macros, whatever. If you don't want to use this extremely useful feature, you can turn it off per game, per controller, or completely.

Try again retard.

>>714947347 (OP)
Good for him. Deleting steam is almost always good. Wasn't this the guy that put DRM on his own mods?

>Denuvo shill
Good

>>714949757
Because Windows is fucking shit and X Input doesnt cover everything

>>714948003
Hallo saar microsoft did not pay me to shill for them yes

>>714949538
what if i just like the look and feel of windows XP?

>Guy who puts DRM in his software is mad at Valve having DRM
Bro?

>>714948003
SHUT THE FUCK UP EPIC SHILL!
GABE NEWELL IS MY FRIEND AND HE CARES ABOUT ME!

>>714949872
>>714949757
In fact, to be clear, his actual complaint is that steam by default overrides proprietary input libraries. The Dualsense has drivers by sony that activate it's adapative triggers and Microsoft has a new Gameinput api. Both of these, unlike SDL, are proprietary, and he's mad that steam might intercept using these and instead provide an xinput device. This of course ignores the fact that, again, you can turn off steam input and still use these proprietary inputs, but whatever. The argument is still completely invalid, wrong, and most importantly retarded.

>>714948003
>Using GOG is better
While true most publishers are not going to use GOG so you're a retard and that means you should shut the fuck up. As for the rest of the complaints who gives a fucking shit.
Who the fuck even wants to use a gaystation controller anyway?

>>714947347 (OP)
never liked this guy

>>714949757
If I had to pick between DRM and all the actually useful Steam features I'd personally go with the useful stuff.

>>714949259
correct

(((Steam))) not even once

>>714949853
>There's an appreciable difference.

You mean the difference that you are using a PC so outdated it would not be able to connect to websites on the internet? A windows XP era machine is straight up obsolete and not usable for anything unless you install an operating system on it that has been updated in the last 20 years. And the reason is simple, steam is connected to the internet and XP does not have the ability to connect to the modern internet in a safe manner.

>>714947439
>>714947572
>>714947657
*tips fedora*

>>714949610
>>714949639
I'm not defending his argument, I'm explaining why he thinks the way he does because his argument is identical to the one that one of my friends uses when he goes on CS tirades after 15 beers

>>714949689
I was using it as a shorthand dumb ass, I know that just because windows says "2 gigs" that doesn't mean that the program is actually using that much

>>714949745
Neat, I don't use Windows anymore so I can't test it but I'll take your word for it

>>714949967
Install a desktop environment that looks like XP and stop crying.

>>714949670
>enable steam input
solved faggot

>psychotic sperg has psychotic sperg meltdown
ok

>>714947347 (OP)
Based and everything he said is true. Steamfags don't own shit and half of their libraries will be unplayable when Windows 10 support for the client is dropped.

>>714949670
>controller support on steam is non existence
>just plugging in controller literally never works, you have to troubleshoot for 30 mins and solution is different for every game
works on my machine

>>714950115
or steam could not FUCK its users in the ASS

>>714950073
> A windows XP era machine is straight up obsolete and not usable for anything
That is not true. You can make a youtube video of you putting a shitbox 2004 PC together and playing Duke Nukem on it for nostalgia clicks.

I knew he was a cunt the moment he put the piracy check on his Nier Automata mod.

>>714947347 (OP)
Valve glazers not going to like this take. Steam has a serious problem with regular review bombing and one of the worst discussion forums out there, where the worst takes often get rewarded with 'clown points.' The worse the opinion, the more 'clown points.' it get. On top of that, the Steam Workshop is a mess. You have to jump through hoops just to download mods and get them working with a proper mod manager, since Steam doesn’t offer native support for one.

>>714948003
>People want to talk about all of the features Steam offers, yet community features are useless

>>714949967
There are unironically weirdos that have made themes for Linux DEs that look just as disgusting as XP. You can hardly tell the difference.

>>714949670
Install Linux and use Lutris for all games. Controller support is literally perfect in every game I've tried, even with an old Playstation 2 controller.

>>714950096
And I'm explaining that you are wrong. You brought up a bunch of "bloat," that isn't bloat at all. Steam uses a bunch of system resources because it's a website wrapped as a product. Applications that do this are notorious resource hogs, because chromium is a piece of shit. Talking about shit like steam game input making it "bloated" is retarded, just like the retard in OP. It doesn't bloat anything. It literally cost nothing if you don't use it, and if you do it effectively cost nothing.

>>714950202
>puts in piracy check
>complains he can't commit piracy to play games on old systems
LOL, lmao even.

>Saars have already started posting

>>714949853
You can't expect developers to support an operating system that hasn't been supported decade at this point. There's a lot of work that goes into making sure games can run on a certain subset of Windows operating systems for patches, updates and for use with drivers and while it does suck that you can't use Windows 7 or XP to play games on Steam, it's reasonable to assume that most people are on systems that aren't using these operating systems so supporting them is a literal waste of time and money.

Not to mention the majority of these games that may only work on Windows XP (Windows 7 games tend to work perfectly on modern systems, so that is literally a non-issue) don't have DRM that ties it to Steam or if they do, it can easily be cracked, so you can in essence transfer them to a virtual machine or an era appropriate computer and play them with ease. It's a mild inconvenience at worst and a non-issue on its face that autistic retards like Special K are making into a shitfit because they son't understand that supporting unsupported operating systems is retarded in the real world.

>>714950212
Found the retard who always randomly starts complaining about trannys, gets clown emojis, and thinks the world is out to get him

>>714950162
This is why i dropped steam completely and i've been buying games on Epic store.

>>714949670
This is such an insane thing to say when controller support being included as a part of steam is one of the fucking selling points of steam over other stores
Either the controller Just Works, or you enable Steam Input for the game and it Just Works

>>714950280
I can expect games to not be stolen when pajeetsoft pushes another garbage on everyone

Why I didn't delete my steam account after 14 years:
I'm not a complete retard

>>714947347 (OP)
Who cares. It's 100% a tranny, any real dude could replicate that code and do even more within a couple of weeks tops. DEI can't code for shit.

>>714947347 (OP)
Just now? Took xher long enough. I thought that would happen earlier.

Why does this guy type like a woman.

>>714950259
>It doesn't bloat anything. It literally cost nothing if you don't use it, and if you do it effectively cost nothing.
Did you just miss the "uses screenspace" comment or do you just have the reading comprehension of an 8yr-old?

I also didn't defend his point of view, I literally just explained why he thinks the way he did. Your calling me out on nothing since we both agree that it's a stupid fucking argument, if you weren't such an argumentative asshole then maybe you'd have read the rest of the post instead of trying to "win" a nonexistent argument.

>>714950335
One thing you will always find with him, he is king of the edge cases. For 99.9% of people it does work out of the box.
But Special K sperg will always seem to have a set up that does not work "right" and he has to "fix".

>>714950280
>There's a lot of work that goes into making sure games can run on a certain subset of Windows operating systems for patches,

The issue is far simpler than that. Windows XP is so old it can't produce valid SSL certificates so Steam has no way to connect to it in a secure manner, as do almost all websites on the internet at this point.

>>714950461
Oh yeah well fuck you

>>714950335
>steam haters and competitors try to gaslight valve and its customers that steam's selling points are actually le bad
many such cases

>>714948830
>I must upgraaaaade

>>714950378
Is that you Thor?
>Developers must support everything till the end of time,
Is a Anti-SKG take.

>>714947506
>EGS
>Microsoft Store
>no bloat

>>714947347 (OP)
It's weird recognising prolific /v/ posters out in the wild like that

>>714950458
>Since I dont have a steam account anymore, I will proceed to talk passive aggresively about valve
he actually put that in his post thinking it makes him edgy

>>714950318
Imagine being the guy who grifts for clowns by posting a million IS THIS GAME WOKE??? threads on steam forums so they can buy video game avatars and wallpapers

>>714950556
Yes.

The Microsoft store and EGS aren't supporting Windows 7 either?

What the fuck is this argument? What is going on?????????????

>>714949459
He isn't saying that you should use Win98 as a modern desktop machine connected to the internet.
He's saying that he cannot take his physical copy of HL2 and legit install it on his computer because the dogshit DRM forces you to download Steam and install the rest of game's data through it.
Obviously you can pirate it, as any other Steam game, but that's beside the point of "owning" those games legit.
So another point he is making is that Steam is more convinient to the user, which is true, but then you have bad edge cases like the inferior controller support, with examples of other dogshit DRM stores doing it better (because they don't enforce their own API on controller support).
He's a retarded mindbroken schizo but he is partially right here about those things. It sucks to suck, but there is nothing anyone could do about it anymore, Steam is too popular, his weird meltdown will not really do anything other than waste his money and time.

>>714947347 (OP)

>>714947347 (OP)
Works on my machine

>>714947506
To be fair that is kind of fucked up.

>>714950593
You have schizophrenia.

>>714950465
Pretty sure ssl cert making is not job of operating system. Just update your openssl implementation

>puts DRM in mods "to pwn teh piratez"
>cries about DRM

>>714950636
Wrong takes given at poker face value to provide fuel for future arguements

>>714950280
>>714950465
Yeah a lot of people outside of the software business don't realize that basically every software development company is in a kind of Red Queen's Race just because that's the nature of the business. I remember before she died my great aunt was complaining to me about stuff on her computer changing; gmail, google, windows, etc. A lot of changes are unnecessary sure, but modern software beyond the most basic scripts is this huge mountain of dependencies, and given how much of people's data is online these days, being insecure is not acceptable. People think stuff on the internet is forever but it isn't, it's actually remarkably ephemeral compared to a lot of other stuff. Without continuous maintenance, the average piece of software has a lifespan lower than a house cat.

>>714950674
>Just update windows xp
Someone forgot ms stopped providing updates over a decade ago

>Its those damn corpo cunts man, they always try to put limits on my X input APIs and when they have finished with you, they drop support for the entire operating system man. This is part of the plan to keep you contained, well i will take my iron and will shoot those corpo rats.

>>714947451
>*Sound of Klaus Schwab orgasming in the distance*

>>714950667
I mean yeah, undiagnosed
But look at that document and tell me you haven't read his posts, it reads exactly the same a special kind of spergpost about valve that you read here from time to time
Tone, rhythm, peculiar word choice, you won't be able to convince me

>SKGcucks haven't realized they are required to support Kaldaein and go along with anything else he wrote

Based. Fuck steamies.

>>714950556
>running the latest version of Windows with Copilot and also a bunch of unaccountable background processes that are basically malware

>>714947347 (OP)
what games did this literal who make?

>>714950803
It's fine, he's currently writing an email to steam explaining how to rewrite two thirds of MICROSOFT's OS to support the new requirements for the updated openssl.

>>714950650
Steam input is the most optional part of steam
please for the love of God pick literally any other thing about steam to nitpick

>>714950926
Copilot is greate please use it but all others yes I totally agree very bad softwares I wish its possible to delete this bloats.

>>714948003
You know that you can ingore all "uselees" features?

>>714950719
This gave me a giggle too
>I HATE ALL DRM! IT FUCKING SUCKS!
>B-but I have to use it to stop chuds from using my stuff though...

This "rules for thee but not for me!" stuff just shows that he might have the smarts of an adult but the maturity of a child.

Right so I read the damn thing and I dont get it.

Its clear to me his main beef with Steam is Steam Input being tied to the store.
But then he goes to bat for the Microsoft Store and EGS that arguably does the same shit and even worse?

And he shills Ubisoft and EA too????
Huh?????
Whats he getting at here

>>714950803
Its an open source software
just put the exe in a usb, put the usb into your xp machine, install the update

>>714949094
2B's ass is just fine on my PlayStation.

>>714950674
>Pretty sure ssl cert making is not job of operating system.

Well you should not be sure because Windows has a built in SSL library.

>>714947506
>have no bloated features unrelated to DRM
Is he actually arguing that Steam offering Steam Input is bad?

>>714950965
But he "ripps it out" the memory saving is 0.0000000000000000000000001% of the system and it will make steam load 0.5% faster in edge cases.
Customisation brains are illogical with computers sometimes.

Meanwhile SK bloats itself with 10 other shit additions that already had perfectly working software to add them in separately
Maybe he'll add in a heartrate monitor to it next, if we're lucky he might even maintain it for more than 1 month before jumping to the next thing too
>t. tried playing a 32-bit game with SK and ran into tons of out-of-memory crashes, even with 4GB patch, until disabling a bunch of gimmicks in the ini

>>714950983
>>714951092
Hes just autistic and mad because he got banned on the stsam forums for being a retard

>>714949283
>Steam DRM is the reason games don't work on W7
I use W7 and this is such a massive cope lmao
The reason many modern games don't fucking work with W7 is almost always tied to the game engine itself, many devs don't fucking care about backward compatibility for their games and simply lock the access off rather than bother. It's especially noticeable with Unity 6, Godot 4 and UE 5, where you can still run many newer games if you find a way to bypass the OS check.
Honestly the only shitty thing Steam have done relative to backward compatibility is fairly recent, they changed the encryption for downloading game updates, which just doesn't work on older OS, it just get stuck in a loop, and rather than allow older OS to keep the previous download encryption (which still exist, as you can still download them manually from their archives), they just said fuck it.

>>714950952
Creating private keys should be a mathematical algorithm
why in tarnation does updating this mathematical formula need OS changes? I am asking honestly.

>>714948228
Talented modders are either turbo spergs with a god complex or the coolest dude you'll ever meet with not much in between. 95% of the time it's the former

>>714951138
You know he's complaining that steam doesn't run on older OS's, so he can't run games right?
He's not smart enough just to just one of the 800 steam cracks.

>>714951230
>or the coolest dude you'll ever meet
I seriously doubt I would ever think this even if I met like the top 1% of modders

>>714951058
Just use openssl instead

>>714949757
You can turn off Steam Input. It is optional. He is a fucking retard.

>>714947506
He literally spells it out clearly in that post, why are valve trannies so cultish?

>>714947347 (OP)
Isn't this the faggot that puts DRM on his patches and sucks off Denuvo to no end?

>>714949283
>devs didn't drop support window 7 steam did
No, Electron did. Steam didn't have any control over that decision unless you think they should have continued building Steam on a deprecated version of Electron purely so that <5% of their userbase wouldn't have to turn off client updates.
Can you run EGS on Windows 98?

>>714951236
Ironically, I'm pretty sure Steam still run on Windows XP in a similar way to how it works on W7
So really he's complaining that Steam doesn't run on Windows 98

>>714951296
That will not update WinHTTP

>>714951230
Theyre Hulk Hogan? Zamn!

>>714951419
I've never tested, but either way. He's still a retard.

>>714947347 (OP)
>wtf why doesn't steam run on my 27 year old OS anymore?!?

>>714947347 (OP)
>noooo I wanted to play windows 98 games on their original shitty hardware and SOUL BSOD every 30 minutes
Those fanatics are just a cult with priers in their mouth.

>>714950965
Can I? I see them every time I buy a game

>>714951425
You need to update that to even interaxt with new ssl certificates? Isnt that just for http 1.0 and 1.1?

>>714947347 (OP)
This fucking retard is always having autistic melties, this should be no shock to anyone.

>>714951057
you don't own it

>>714947347 (OP)
>their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware

So crack the games and run them yourself on your win98 box

>>714951269
Most coder spergs and Open Sores activists are really shit people now. Especially with the retard political infection they are dealing with.
>One of the top maintainers for GNOME(A Linux desktop environment) was just outed as pedo, who said outing was the result of him going on unhinged political rant against a forked bit of software trying to pwn da chuds.
>It did not end well.

>>714951412
Technically Steam recently did nuked support for W8 and below with their new download encryption.
It doesn't work on older OSs past 10 and just get stuck in a loop.
Although hopefully they'll fix it, since you can still access and download the update manually, which mean the old encryption still exist.

>>714951646
No one tell him that before steam, securom didnt let you even reinstall the same disc wothout bricking your os install
though yeah i hate denuvo and securom the same, prebaked points of failure so your product isnt forever usable

Why does getting banned cause such a brain aneurysm for these types of schizos?

>>714949757
If you'd ever played games without it you'd know exactly why it exists. Fucking retard.

>>714951612
You're incredibly ignorant.

>>714951412
Their main mistake was using a Chromium based framework in the first place.

>>714951597
You need to update that for chromium to actually work, which it doesn't. Any alternative would be a huge amount of engineering effort and support, for a literal dead operating system. If you want to play on age appropriate hardware just install Linux.

>>714947429
He should literally hang himself.

>>714951804
THATS IT I AM ADDING YOU TO THE LIST!
WELCUM TO BAN TOWN POPULATION YOU!

>>714949757
>why does steam do this proprietary thing
>its an os issue
holy esl, thanks for the kek

>other stores like GoG can't be arsed/have not enough pull to keep publishers in check to keep games updated on their services
>this is somehow Steam's fault

>i'm nostalgic about fucking around with BBS and FTP to keep games patched
>this is somehow Steam's fault

>i'm autistic enough to care about playing 30 year old games on original hardware and seek out patches from BBSs but not autistic enough to get a physical copy of Half Life1 or whatever the fuck
>this is somehow Steam's fault

>>714951236
>having to cracking your own games at all
cuck behaviour

>>714947347 (OP)
>>714947506
>microsoft store and Epic
>no bloated features
I know this guy was always talked about being a schizo but a fucking EGS and microsoft paid shill schizo?
That I didn't see coming

>Steam DRM bad
>my DRM good

>>714949670
are you a retard or what? steam input is the most comprehensive "plug it in and it will work fine" tool i've ever used, gone are the days of having to have 30 different pieces of software to get a fucking ps3 controller to work

>>714950319
Don't

>>714951885
eh ftp servers are chill.
old versions of popular mods are available there.
i know for a fact that most modders remove older versions of mods to avoid bug reports, but forget to not add bullshit to their mods, so those older versions become sougjt after and hard to find.

>>714951646
You shouldn't have to crack games that you own. That kinda defeats the purpose of buying them.
A better argument would be to just stop buying games altogether and find other means to acquire them.
You can't walk into a store and buy a PC game. Steam took away that option. There was a time when you could walk into a Electronics Boutique and purchase used PC games. Now you can't walk into a Walmart and buy a new PC game. The last games made physical was GTAV and Sims4. The "physical" game they mailed me for Doom Eternal had a cardboard disc with a code on it. I only had 3MbPS internet at the time and Walmart wouldn't allow me to return it. Took more than two weeks to download it.

>>714949757
Reading this, all i can think about it how many times I've flipped on steam input to fix a game's input, and how bad controller support was on PC before steam input
Even as a Linux user i do essentially prefer when shit works to when it doesn't work, and i don't really care if it pisses off someone more autistic than me because of the leet computer hax0r equivalent of Sonic's arms being the wrong colour

>>714951760
How did he get banned?

>>714947347 (OP)
>shit I don't care about enthusiast

>>714947347 (OP)
special k more like special kretin
hahahahahahahahahshs

>>714952106
Valve shouldn't have to support a 30 year old OS, it's a skill issue if you want to be a hipster and play games from 1999 on windows 98 and you can't manage it yourself

>>714951725
>Technically Steam recently did nuked support for W8 and below with their new download encryption.
I downloaded a random game on 7 right now just fine though?

>>714947506
>Ds4windows hindered by steam
Works on my machine

>>714947506
>play steam game
>windows overlay suddenly pop-out
>no bloated features
>no unrelated DRM

>>714952106
>mafia 3 just came out
>no internet to see bad memes
>let it download over free 10kbps 1-4am internet provided by government
>this takes 4 months
>finishes downloading near end of exam season right before summer
>summer break starts
>boot up my vista laptop to play mafia 3 for first time
>see unfamiliar win 7 bootup
>mom brought it to virus fix guy at computer store to fix the computer so i can play games without viruses
>bloke just installed unactivated win7
I have never forgiven my mother for this transgression

Why does Valve being successful bring out so many odd schizos?
The schizos that hate valve and shill EGS are probably the most well known types of schizos because they always post like unhinged autists. like half of EGS shills are actually paid while the others are just freaks

>>714947857
They fixed it in year of the yorha edition, unsure if they retro patched it or not

>>714952135
His mod got removed from steam workshop cause it had malware in it

>>714952106
though ironically literally every pc gamer back then used sketchy no-cd cracks for all their games

>>714947347 (OP)
Why do modders always act like they're curing cancer and not just making shitty video games slightly less shitty as a hobby?

>>714952202
>it's a skill issue
Yea, it's Valve's skill issue you anti-consumer rights retard.

>>714952370
Big well known business makes it easy to hyperfixate their autism beam at.

>>714952282
You're supposed to have hidhide. What a fucking moron.

>>714952486
this sentense is full nonsense. When dod you give up on being an adult human?

>>714952486
But the game works on modern hardware and a modern OS, or at least the devnigger isn't complaining about that if it's false

>>714952409
Fucked around and found out, huh

>>714947347 (OP)
>cries about the most easily user-crackable DRM on the market
>Put DRM in his fucking mod
And nothing of value was lost, hope he deletes his github next and then his internet connection.

>>714952106
man the amount of cd keys I lost as a kid and had to go online to find new ones for physical copies of pc games I owned

>>714952649
>tranime
>spreading falsehoods

>>714952619
You have to be 18+ to post here.

>>714952486
You're a bot.

>>714952486
It is brave of you to agree withPirate Software's takes on how devs should be chained to a desk and worked to death to support windows 3.1

>>714947572
is it good?

>>714952370
>be happy steam using autist
>one day steam deletes one of your screenshots or forum posts
usually something like that

>>714951412
I can install games I purchase from GOG on a Windows 98 machine, yes.
Can you explain why you believe that 100% of Steam users would have to use a deprecated version as opposed to a company that has perfect endless data on all user's systems allowing older operating systems to use a deprecated version while everyone else uses the current version? Would you like to define why disabling "only 5%" of 132 million customers, which is almost 7 million customers, is preferable to just allowing those specific customers to continue using what they have?

>>714952701
You're actually retarded.

>>714952649
Lain user being based and correct? What timeline is this?

>>714947506
>Special K
>i don't care about the bloat on EGS or MS Store because that bloat isn't related to DRM (not actual DRM but the client itself making it difficult for me to run things on WIn98)

Yeah. He is retarded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFb5kL2_-Fk

>>714952282
>>714952529
For me it's Nefarious' DsHidMini, his stuff has worked for my DS3 since 2016 without any of the malware and bloat other solutions have

>>714952702
Show me where what I'm saying is his argument. I'd love to see that.

>>714952769
You are literally either a bot or an actual retard if you think Valve is anti costumer.

>>714952135
the dude used to frequently get in to fights on the Steam Forum with other users and even the moderators for specific forums. I think all his Guides and FAQs that were on Steam were originally wiped because he caught a Steam Community ban
and also yeah Special K had actual malware for a time. I think it was that mod where he bragged he would delete a pirated copy off the user's device if Special K thought it a pirated copy. Tampering with files like that is the definition of actual malware...

>>714952767
7 million customers can sue valve for letting them use internet oriented software on unsafe operating systems

>>714952828
>Special K had actual malware for a time
proof?

>>714952820
Learn how to speak English you actual retard.

>>714952238
Downloading is only affected by newer content, but with updates it's inconsistent in my experience. I have games that still get updated, but I also have a huge list of games that just can't update.

>>714952885
Concession accepted jeet.

>>714952813
You are anti-consumer because you are going against the stated goal and the using the same gasslighting he did.
His argument was
"Devs will be forced to support game forever"
So yea, you are agreeing with that retard.
By saying
"Valve must support Win 7 forever or UR ANTI COSUMUR"
Lolcow take bro.
Try not to fuck up again someone else other than me may not be so kind to you next time.

>>714947567
kek

>>714951737
SecuROM got Sony sued so hard they quit releasing games on PC for a decade. Is your argument that Valve should be sued out of the PC market for a decade?

>>714947387
tranny software I used once and forgot about

>>714951412
>Electron
There's the problem, should've just stuck with C++ and VGUI like before the update.

>>714952920
>really improves the experience on the Steam Deck
I like that the entire Valve process revolves around an insignificant platform. Very cool.

>>714952920
I see. The random game in question was Aliens versus Predator, so that explains it. Guess I'm in luck since the games I play are unlikely to receive an update.

>>714952935
>>714952973
You're too illiterate to try to make this argument.
Again. Show me where what I'm saying is his argument. I don't want to see your broken English as a response.
VALVE isn't the developer of the games you fucking retard. All they have to do is make sure Steam runs on the Operating Systems, IE THE SYSTEMS, that the people purchased games from their platform on.
How fucking retarded are you?

>>714952995
Securom kept bricking everything
denuvo makes games unplayable on every internet and server outage and eventual company closure
steam drm is just enough to make 99.9% of people use drm while the 0.1% can crack it with ease and back it up for personal use if the game gets bad updates or steam goes under or they know they wont be getting internet for months.
please do cobtinue your bad faith arguement further, though you will have to resort to samefagging as I will not humor your retarded takes any further

>>714953175
lolcow take bro.
You are basically turning in to Thor now, i can smell the ferrits from here.

714953242
Is this a bot?

>>714953175
You are literally saying that Valve has to keep an old OS updated that even MS itself has abandoned. You are quite literally retarded. Seek help.

lol mad as shit i called you out.

>>714953313
This is the retard who thinks Valve should code their own web browser so they can stop using Chromium.

>>714953175
steam is indeed not a game.
stopkillinggames also states that games should be playable, not playable on os they came out on.
so this means that companies can make their game playable on shitty old OSes and intel macs and circumvent stopkillinggames.

>>714953138
In the case you do have games that can't update/download, it's not the end of the world, you can still download them through external means, like DepotDownloader.
Still, I'd rather Steam just provide some backward compatibility and be done with it.

>>714953094
If only they put as much effort into making SteamOS a mainsteam option for vidya instead of wasting all that effort on the minuscule number of Deck owners.

>>714953313
Why are you trying to have this argument when it is very clear you do not have a clue as to what the fuck you're talking about.
Just take your L and shut the fuck up.
Valve isn't going to keep any version of Microsoft Windows updated.
You absolute retard.

>>714947347 (OP)
He's still fucking mad that he got banned from Steam and the pirate scene all teamed up to compile his mod without the blocklist

>I'll hecking show you steamies, i'll add your steam account to a block list for my mod!!! hehe
>BANNED from steam for being a fagget
>b-buh dindu nuffin!!

>>714947347 (OP)
Why the fuck would anyone use Windows 98 in 2025?

>>714953408
How do you depot download dlcs? I never figured that out. Just base games.
so many games have weird dlc structures.

>>714948003
Another melty

>>714953429
>UHHH YOU'RE WRONG

>>714952486
You literally started this.

>>714953471
To play games that require Windows 98 to run.

>>714947347 (OP)
>The proliferation of Steam for content distribution has fragmented PC gaming
he means consolidated, right?

>>714953509
They can run jut fine on win2k

>>714953307
Most likely.

>>714953509
They dont require windows 98, he just wants to be a special snowflake

Has there ever been a single modder than wasnt balls to the walls retarded

>>714953509
>what is compatibility mode

>>714950965
I used to be able to turn them off with --no-browser and minigameslist launch flags but they removed that some years ago.

His complaints are valid and hopefully they lead to positive change. There are a lot of gabe smegma slurpers in this thread as usual.

>umm i want to run on windows 98 and steam doesn't support it
>epic games store is epic btw it also doesn't let you do that

>>714947506
>GOG
fair enoguh

>EGS
>MSS

LMFAO

>>714947347 (OP)
This is the same melodramatic nigger who puts DRM in Special K.

>>714953363
There is literally no reason for Steam to use Chromium

>>714953728
That's windows xp games, retard.

>>714947392
spbp

Do people even still use special k?

>>714953363
A broken clock is right twice a day, using Chromium for anything is a major mistake.

>>714953363
Is there a reason why they shouldn't code their own web browser? It would take them less than a week to do so. It's not like they're busy developing games.

>>714949142
>TimDog

>>714953825
Screenshot from Windows 11, you completely inept cunt.

>>714953576
If you don't know what you're talking about you should probably just stop posting.

Man, I remember wanting to use Special K to get rid of the overhead on Java Minecraft because I was basically forced to play it on fullscreen, otherwise it would have some sort of weird frametime lag, but the installer was super fucking sketchy.
Glad I didn't, this man sounds nuts.

>>714953825
There are no games on steam that require windows 98

>>714953815
>>714953914
Why would Valve create another attack vector for malware?

>>714953509
Name one.

>>714953965
He's not complaining about a windows 98 era game not working on his modern PC

I still remember Valve promising digital would bring down the costs as it cuts out packaging and gamestop.

>>714953967
he's just severely autistic and those people make the best software

>>714953898
>i watched le pewds le pewdiepie anti-windows wholesome linux chungus and i am now le degooglifier roaming the land free of total cringe travesty known as windows and am becoming le hecking retro as we speak, begone normiez!~

>>714954025
Valve doesn't set other publisher's prices.

>>714954025
It does bring down costs. That's not the same thing as bringing down prices.
The AAA devs that continue to sell their digital games at $60 are simply pocketing more money.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/2798376099468450321/

HE STILL MAD OVER THIS LMAO

>>714953989
Because it's better than basically being owned by Google.

>>714953951
Try it out. Let me know how it works on a game that requires windows 98.

>>714954109
this cunt is ill

>>714954140
No game on steam requires windows 98 to run

>>714948003
>we've reached a point where other services are praiseworthy for not being as shitty
exactly

>>714954109
IIRC didn't he put DRM on his mod and got into a fight with players to the point where the developers told him to knock it off?

>>714954109
how do you get banned across so many forums jesus

>>714954109
This guy's entire beef with steam was because of said ban btw

>>714954292
Yes. He kept picking fights with others users to the point steam decided to give a permanent community ban on all boards you have to fuck up really fucking bad to get one of those

>>714950118
>Just take +100ms of input lag bro

So who is this fag and why should i care, is he the CEO or some gaming company or something?

I do have Special K installed, I think I used it on Ryse and it worked perfectly right out of the box

>>714954319
>how do you get banned across so many forums
You misunderstand. He was requesting bans on all of those forums.
He had received a blanket ban from all Steam communication for 1 year, but that kind of ban doesn't show (Banned) next to his name, so people don't KNOW that he was banned.
He was asking for the specific bans so that people would see that identifier and know why he wasn't responding.

> They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true and 50,000+ posts and 30+ guides (some of which had shared attribution with multiple accounts) are gone. In less than one month, all of this content went from [deleted] to literally deleted, despite their worthless promise otherwise.
If I was deleting an account I would expect it to delete all of my data, so the behaviour he describes is the correct one. They should really update that FAQ, but it seems dumb to complain that deleting actually deletes.

>>714954025
I mean, big sales are extremely commonplace now and many games go for bargain bin prices. Technically it did happen.

>>714954497
>So who is this fag and why should i care
>he says while using a tripcode

>>714954497
His program (Special K) hooks into old games to fix a variety of problems, usually resolution or shit performance

>>714954319
Jannies are fragile, fragile creatures.

>>714954527
>50,000+ posts
Holy fuck. This guy needs sectioning.

>>714954527
I'm guessing whether posts stay up is down to the moderation, I see plenty of posts made by [deleted] on Steam all the time.

Why cant this dude just act normal

>>714953967
>>714954037
Pretty nuts that he's the only person that's still running an OpenGL to DirectX wrapper, I think practically every other project, even the vulkan ones are completely dead in the water.

>>714954573
So hes like a staff member? Or just a modder.

>>714954572
Thanks for showing interest, i guess.

>>714954110
Chromium is open source

>>714954664
Software making requires autism

>>714947451
don't be a retard anon you can probably sell it for like a couple hundred bucks depending on what games or items is attached to that account

>>714954676
A modder, has nothing to do with Steam

>>714954664
He is actually a piece of shit and admitted to be arrested by the FBI, no different then a pedophile and scammer poojeet.

>not even /v/'s contrarians want to side with kaldaien's retarded """""logic""""""""
nature is healing

>>714954798
It's a miracle this dude hasn't necked himself yet.

>>714954676
>So hes like a staff member? Or just a modder.

He's a modder that tried to position himself as an informal Steam moderator by putting in DRM in his mods that acts as malware that deleted files on your computer. It got so bad that the actual moderators told him to stop and he didn't which got him community banned (which is REALLY hard to do, even former game forum mods pointed out that it was super hard)

>>714949520
>remote play
>steamworks API
>community stuff
>wrkshop
>video audo player
>controller API
>etc
WE LIVE IN A FUCKING FUTURE WHERE RAMS ARE 10000000000000x FASTER THAN IT WAS
AND STORAGE IS 10000000000000000000x
BUT I NEED MY COMPUTER TO RUN .000000000000000000000001% FASTER
you havent fucking opened EGS ONCE
t. UNREAL ENGINE DEV

>>714947451
Why do you have to delete it just log out and forget about it for awhile

I like Steam cause it's convenient. Not gonna keep 900 pirated installers around

>>714954867
He HAS to get his revenge on the steam moderators and pirates and who ever else wronged him somehow, he won't rope just yet.

Why does this guy hate pirates too?

>>714948003
If you invested that energy seething about steam in getting a better a better computer you wouldn't have this problem.

>Numerous games have native DualSense support on Epic, but are XInput-only on Steam.
huh? there's tons of games that have dualsense support on steam that automatically disable steams xinput system
am I reading this wrong or is this nigger actually going insane?

>>714947347 (OP)
>[Sad News]
oh so so sad :((( I amost crying T_Tt

>>714947347 (OP)
Damn, he needs a hug

>>714954881
>>714954710
So its just another case of a entitled modder.
Lame, i would feel slight sympathy for him for trying to help games with his mods if he wasnt supporting other companies who who the same or worse.

>>714949459
You are not required to use the GOG Galaxy client though, all GOG sold products AFAIK have downloadable setup files and patches. Dunno if any publishers/devs can opt out of that but the option is definitely there.

>>714954635
Yea he's legit mentally ill. I refuse to use his special k shit on principle because he acts like such a sperg on the steam forums. That's why he's seething too. He frequently gets banned so he probably just lost it this time and deleted his account. Then made up this altruistic purpose about it.

GOG Galaxy just makes the downloading/install process seamless. Otherwise you're stuck having to download 4gig partial installer files for however many gigs big a game is.
the option for those non-Galaxy downloads are semi-hidden for a casualfag who doesn't know how to navigate their GOG account, i guess.

>>714947347 (OP)
>[sad news]
This this the work of a bot or a particularly retarded zoomer? You don't need to add this in every thread you make.

>>714955421
Galaxy sucks because it throttles downloads, if you bought a game that has a large GB size you're fucked, not even steam has this issue. The GoG users complain about to this day and never fixed it

t. GoG user.

>>714955510
It's a parody of Japanese headlines that have [sad news], [good news]

>if you want natively good performance, you either have to use this schizophrenics software or ""upgrade"" to windows 11

>>714951220
You need a robust way to generate a pseudorandom bit-string for these mathematical algorithms to work. Openssh calls the OS API to get randomness but on older OSs they could be generated in an unsafe way, allowing hash-collisions and thus breaking of encryption.

The whole topic is extremely complex and encryption has many moving parts. If only one part is unsecure, the whole encryption fails.

>>714947387

>>714955513
>Galaxy sucks because it throttles downloads
Considering I don't even get giganigga Steam DL speeds when downloading GOG installers from web browser, Galaxy must be really fucking shit at this.

>>714953951
Will my physical copy of Chess Mates work with this?

>>714950650
>they don't enforce their own API on controller support
Neither does Steam. I'm not sure if it's on by default but you can sure as fuck just disable all of it on Steam's end.

>>714947387
literal malware

>>714947347 (OP)
Weaponized autism is a hell of a thing. One who can learn to direct it towards useful things is a king these days.

>>714947567
Fucking lmao

>>714949093

The box is blue.

>>714950212
>Steam has a serious problem with regular review bombing
t.

>>714949670
>plug DS4 in
>windows switches the mic and speaker to it
>have to disable it for the 400th time
>launch game
>not recognised
>open ds4windows
>launch game
>xbox prompts
>have to search for mod

>>714947387
https://youtu.be/-6FvsKo162U

This is Special K.

>>714956594
>xbox prompts
>have to search for mod
This shit sucks.

>>714947429
>be me
>have high end game pc in 2024
>dont have time atm, but think maybe in a decade or so I will be back to desktop gaming
>might be none of my hardware will work with a new windows
>maybe steam updates itself so it doesnt work on win 11 anymore
>650 games stolen because I dont see reason to upgrade
>spend thousands on vidya and hardware
Vs
>get gamepass.
>play vidya
>done with gamepass, know I dont own games
>spend 15 bucks to play vidya for a month
He's right tho

>>714956557
If anything, Steam have the opposite problem, people don't review shitty games enough, so it's skewed toward the positive, which is really annoying.

>>714948081
>and was a constant simp for DRM like Denuvo?
he supports drm but i never saw him say anything but denuvo is a horrendous amount of bloat, i remember his writeups about how iceborne's denuvo was the most insane indefensible thing he'd ever seen or something to that effect
for reference, iceborne dlc 10x'd cpu usage from the base game, it was so bad capcom reverted it in like 2 weeks

>>714953776
>His complaints are valid
He's praising EGGS store that doesn't run on widows 98 either. Why is that, Mr. Validity?

>>714947347 (OP)
>Special K
Who? I only get images of cereal boxes when I search for that.

>>714956692
I think the core of the issue is that you have to write a review when rating a game, it shouldn't be tied like that. If you could simply push recommend/not recommend button with optional review, things would've been very different.

>>714950819
>https://youtu.be/XvrzVePggz8

>>714947347 (OP)
He's right though?

>>714950849(you)
Yeah... You are right.

>>714947347 (OP)
This guy was always a nutjob even years ago.

>>714947347 (OP)
Didn't this fag himself insert drm in his mods to prevent pirated copies from working?
The fuck is his problem now?

>>714947347 (OP)
Steamworks is literally optional. This guy is retarded

>>714947347 (OP)
never heard of this mod/toolset + don't care even in a vacuum + not reading all that

>>714956989
Honestly an anonymous (but still requiring to have played the game) number system would work better. Give you a general idea of how good or bad a game is, and allow users to be somewhat neutral if needed.

>>714957274
>Didn't this fag himself insert drm in his mods to prevent pirated copies from working?
Worse, it aggressively deleted random files. His DRM was a literal malware.

>puts malware in his improvement injector shit that activates if you try using his thing on a pirated copy and starts raping your system randomly with no warning
>Steam finds out and turns out it's not okay to do that but of course the little nigga frames it as if steam is bullying little devs trying to make world a better place out of goodness of his own heart or something
All the context you really need here. This guy is a mega autist with an unwarranted superiority complex every single time I saw him reply to normal, innocent questions.

definitely forgot to take his meds this morning

>>714947347 (OP)
>malware developer whines about a service that people use
Okay, who cares?

>>714957445
>number system
As far as informing the potential players, a single graph showing something like "50% of players liked [game], 20% of players found [game] mediocre, 30% of players did not like [game]" and a separate review section would be the best. Publishers are unlikely to like that though because it would be a loss of "mostly positive" shit that means nothing.

>>714947451
>Deleting my 26 year old steam account

Steam is utter garbage anyway. Workshop is fantastic example of this
>blindly download files without even knowing their goddamn file size
>impossible to find anything
>every mod is a "subscription"
>no enforced readme files or documentation every description is whatever
As much as Nexus Mods might be retarded but at least it does its job correctly. Imagine managing hundreds of mods for Oblivion via Steam Workshop... haha.
Fuck you Valve and fuck you Gape.

>>714947347 (OP)
Calling Steam a DRM client is retarded since Steam has no mandatory DRM. You don't even need to enable steam's basic DRM when you ship a game. You'd think a software dev would know this. Good riddance.

Didn't read the thread, I only know the guy because he made Automata actually runnable on my shitty setup at the time.
Steam has been shit for a while now, doesn't make any of the other stores better.
If you want to play older games on OG hardware you should be downloading the GOG versions anyway. Or just use the original files + cracks, nobody cares if you're buying decades old video games.

>>714957967
>blindly download files without even knowing their goddamn file size
It's literally always on the right, below the icon if it have one.
I agree on the rest tho.

>>714957967
>>every mod is a "subscription"
Use SteamCMD for god's sake. It's not that hard.
The only problem is when the workshop forces you to own the game to download mods like Darkest Dungeon.

>>714958443
>The only problem is when the workshop forces you to own the game to download mods like Darkest Dungeon
Isn't that what cs is for (I'm not typing the full URL)

>>714958516
>cs
No. Please read my full post again.

>>714958612
cs lets you download mods without using the workshop, newfag

>>714958671
How come I get notified of this in a thread about some literally-who e-celeb's github retirement crybaby letter?
I know the base link, can you give me the rest of the URL?
I haven't used that site in a long time.

>>714958170
>Steam has been shit for a while now
lmao
Steam has been USEABLE for a while no, do you retards just dont remember how absolute fucking trash it was like 5 years ago, if that?

>>714958914
Yes, I do in fact remember how much better it used to be before they changed to a Chromium interface

>>714958767
proxyfag here, it's cs.rin.ru

>>714950650
>He's saying that he cannot take his physical copy of HL2 and legit install it on his computer because the dogshit DRM forces you to download Steam and install the rest of game's data through it.
Then why wasn't he complaining 2 years ago when Valve made Steam? The guy is complaining over a system that has existed for more than two decades now. And somehow also is defending worst alternatives.

>>714958969
>.ru
miss me with that spyware shit

Isn't the whole reason valve stops supporting old windows because Chromium ends security updates? Not valve directly ending security updates?

>>714959094
You must be very young and not remember, but people slammed the hell out of Valve when HL2 released and required Steam.

>>714949670
Out of all the controllers I've used, the only issue I've ever had was a 3rd party ps3 controller that had its right joystick inputs rotated 90 degrees and I'm pretty sure that was a Windows issue since it did the same shit outside of Steam. In the rare occasion a game doesn't normally support controllers, Steam Input has fixed that just fine. You are completely talking out of your ass.

>>714959176
They did, but ultimately things calmed down, and Steam became a much much better platforms, he's acting like this is all very recent. He seemingly was fine with it for 20 years, so why now? especially as the platforms he is trying to defends arguably are almost worst than Steam when it started

>>714959176
People were also upset about HL2 needing a GPU to work iirc.

>>714947969
I wouldn't be surprised if all this butthurt was because Steam cracked down on this behavior

I think he's brought up an interesting point that Valve has constantly assured that they have a "plan" to let us keep our purchased games when Steam dies but have so far demonstrated the exact opposite

>>714949598
>I don't remember anything being wrong with it.
It was one of the worst PC ports ever made.

>>714954527
Considering the guy was peddling a literal malware (his own DRM would delete your files), it's not very surprising that Steam would outright just remove any trace of him.

he's entirely correct in thought, speech and action, and shows more integrity than all the SKG niggers put together.

don't like the service? stop using it.

>>714959349
But steam is not dead. It is just they banned every Brazillan shitbox pc till they find computer parts that will work with Windows 10 in their junkyards.

>>714959176
the once-ubiquitous pic related is older than half the steamies

>>714959349
the plan is to get suckers to trust the plan

gay ben can die from fatzempic any day and then what?

>>714947506
This is actually true though, I've got Forza Horizon 4 on Steam and MS Store, Steam version doesn't support the impulse triggers but the MS store version does.
I always thought that was an MS restriction that limited what could use the impulse triggers, but if EGS can support it too, that blows that theory out the water.

>>714959735
>integrity
He shills ubisoft, microsoft, and epic

>>714959903
>shills
I don't think you know what that word means anon.

>>714959903
oh? they pay him? or does he just have different opinions than you?

>>714947347 (OP)
He's angry Steam does not run on a real windows 98 pc? lol Dude is desperately looking for something to bitch about.

>>714947423
TSMT

Is Special K still relevant?

the underlying failure is the catastrophically short-sighted decision to use a web engine for rendering, requiring them to rely on a third party - a SINGLE third party, today - for their most critical service

Steam jeets BTFO

Why is he blaming Valve for his problems with w98 instead of Microsoft?

>>714960019
A lot less so, but still useful for older games.

>>714948003
>I have to use a third-party overlay just to get the fucking time down to the current second
If not trolling, complaining about this is crazy work. Please come back to the real world and get a little perspective on what actually matters in life.

>>714960078
The Steam trannies are having so many melties in this thread, pure kino.

>>714960108
Because it's Valve's problem.

This guy hasnt recovered after getting BTFO by Steam jannies ages ago

>>714960136
>>714960078
They literally cant accept that MS and Epic have objectively better storefronts nowadays so they seethe about made up people in their heads.

>>714959870
>Forza Horizon 3 & 4 & 5 All have Native support of Impulse Trigger and Microsoft Store or Xbox version don't have any issue with this feature, but the steam version of Forza Horizon 4 & 5 can't handle it.
>How To Fix
> In your Library, Right Click on the game and navigate to Properties, then go to Controller Section and change the setting to "Disable Steam Input" and Boom! Fixed!
>Keep in mind that these changes require a restart to apply (if you are in-game)
>This method can fix every steam game that has problems with Impulse Trigger.

5 second search.

>>714959357
Yeah sure whatever, but it ran well at 60 FPS and I don't remember it crashing at all either. So even if it was the worst port ever, it ran great. At that time I had a shitty as fuck CPU too

In fact I even have a screenshot from back then. Timestamp is 2017.

>>714960289
lmao

>>714960210
Who the fuck even uses the Steam forums.
Everybody just farms clowns, no real discussion even goes on there. Just baiting and bitching that their 2010 shitbox PC made from used parts wont run a game with raytracing on.

>>714959613
>his own DRM would delete your files
Based. Shouldn't have shittalked him

>>714960019
>>714960115
he still adds(*) functionalities for modenr games, but 90% of the times it's obscure or mostly irrelevant fixes or stuff like this:
>25.6.19.4
>Workaround new issues in DOOM: The Dark Ages window management and Reflex related to creating / resizing windows.

(*)i wonder if he'll keep developing SK at all if he has no steam account now since SK interfaces with the steam api

>>714955203
hes just mad about getting banned on steam
the thing with pc98 and egs and ea must be either ragebait or pure trolling

>>714948117
>it's more that nobody has any power to stop it
by design and explicit intent, it's entirely in line with the core FOSS philosophy. don't like it? fork it lmao

>>714955268
Same with drm free games on steam. Just use the cli tool to download the game files and your golden. Dont need steam installed at all

>>714959116
to be fair, Valve shouldn't have used fucking Google shit anyway. I can't understand why the Europeans would take Bill Gates to court over Internet Explorer back in the 90s but they placidly look on while Google Chrome has taken over 99% of the Interbutts. Some websites don't even work correctly if you're not using a Google-based browser.

>>714947347 (OP)
Steamies seething

>>714947567
This is me unironically

>>714948001
GOG sucks ass because they knowingly sell freeware, sell older games premodded and never update them, and hide the option for an individual download to trick you into thinking you need their launcher

>>714960682
>Some websites don't even work correctly if you're not using a Google-based browser.
google's own websites intentionally give you a worse service if you're not fully updooted

the NSA want a browser monopoly, and the jews sergey and brin were picked over gates (maxwell)

>>714955787
Even gog-games has better downloads. So better that I resort to that website after buying the game from gog. Dev gets my money and I dont waste time downloading. Piracy is trully a service issue.

>>714947506
kek he got boughted

>>714960797
*brin and page

>>714948003

Thats why you dont have a girlfriend, loser, you will die all alone.

>>714947347 (OP)
Those are actually good and valid points.

>>714950115
Such imitations are hollow. The windows experience is not just some vague styling, functionality is just as important.

>>714956790
Guess capcom was salty over that. That explains why wilds is like this.

He'll wake up tomorrow
Realize what he has done
And ACK himself
I'll be happy, I remember using it on a pirated Nier Automata and it giving me the metal gear solid ! sound and closing, fucking schizo fighting against pirates for some reason

>muh Steam Input is optional
It is an API (not just an XInput wrapper like most people believe) and some devs choose to use it over SDL etc, which leads to these games not reading any controllers at all if you disable Steam Input. E.g. Tales of Arise is one such game, and that's why there are no non-Steam versions of the game.

Granted, these are edge cases, but Kaldaien is a giga-autist (I think he's almost 50 now and severely autistic) got so mad over this random shit he kept sperging about it in the activity feed (I was friends with him) and then finally nuked his acc about 2 months ago.

>>714954905
dramatic tranny retards are literally incapable of this, if youve ever had a discord/wow/skype/msn group and someone makes a big spergout and quits only to join back a day or 2 later, its that type of person. requires attention to live and thus has evolved to only act in extreme ways to get the most positive or negative attention possible

>>714961307
I remember arguing with him ages ago on the Nier and Tales forums. Guy is legitimately a complete insufferable wacko.

>ketermine addicted troon KYS'd himself!
Oh no.

>>714947992
typical vulnerable covert narcissist petty behavior, the tech industry is full of these manchild subhumans

>>714961307
Tales of Arise would probably be more fun if you were stuck at the title screen with the OP looping instead of having to play the actual fucking game to be fair

>>714947347 (OP)
Things about older (98) games not working is valid, I don't know how Valve can fix that, but it's a valid complaint.

>>714961594
I mean it won't work on other launchers either. Although you can probably get the backup installers from GoG working for at least some of them.

"I'm deleting my steam account for some retarded reason"

Retard?

>>714947347 (OP)
How much did he get paid for this publicity stunt?

>>714959273
Steam being "least bad" doesn't make it good. Any and all criticism of it is not only welcome - it should be universal.

Times being what they are, though, of course that's not going to happen. Too many corpo cocksuckers.

>>714947451
No account is even 22 years old yet
>>714947506
Epic let's you use third party clients to access your games, which is something Steam should have done a decade ago

>>714961693
GOG is the best bet, yeah.

I don't know how Valve could fix the problem. An extremely slim DRM-online client for older machines? Just, removing the DRM? If you got an older game, and used the 'check CD key' option, would it still install? That could be a work-around.

It's a valid complaint because this will be a rolling issue. It won't just be the '98 games not working on original hardware, it'll be other platforms eventually too.

>>714960406
Half the graphics were wrong, specially the menus.
it looks fine till you see the intended graphics in a ps4.
for example the pause menu had a dotted background, when pc versions crappy menu wrongly showed a checkered background

>>714961881
What is this retarded statement? Criticize Steam all you want. The only small problem is that 99% of criticism against Steam is completely asinine and there are no workable alternatives being offered either.

>>714962095
I am not gonna lie, I fail to understand how that is gamebreaking.

>>714950853
dont care

Now get back in the perpetual server maintenance mine

seems like more people are noticing how shitty steam actually is, love seeing shills in full defence mode of their favorite billionaire, will keep pirating literally everything, enjoy Your video-games licenses +30% tip

>>714961921
You can add other clients games to steam and do the same with other clients and steams games.
it will just open all clients in the background
same thing that happens in epics case

>>714962363
It was highly annoying.
his mod also lowered performance requirements by heaps and bounds so insteas of a 2016 hardware, a 2011 hardware became the new min req

>>714962646
>dithering and jagged edges on the shadow cast on the boobs
aiiieeee

>>714962646
The problem with piracy is that more and more it has been hijacked by malware con artists, like Fitgirl and Empress. It used to be a case of swapping a dll file for one that spoofed the authentication server.

>>714962863
The GTX 980 was released in 2014, that was a very good card to run the game on. So I wouldn't say it was quite 2016 hardware.

>>714962646
What does the code in the filename do? Also is that picture safe to download?

>wants to go back to 90s patching

lmao fuck off.

>>714947347 (OP)
Valve is slowly transitioning to Linux first. Thanks to the Linux runtimes and Proton, backwards compatibility is gonna be better than even what Windows offers.

>>714962646
If anything I'm noticing more how autistic this SK guy is. I still remember his meltdown over people using SpecialK on pirated games and him putting DRM on SK because of this lmao. I've stopped using SK after that incident and never touched it since.
And now he yaps about Steam DRM while praising MS Store and Epic of all people.

>>714963226
Seems like a simple for-loop that runs some math and exits. However, I can't be arsed to think about the math in my head, so it might be a case of a loop that may run forever-ish.

>>714963708
If you think linux has better compatibility in literally any metric then you've obviously never used linux