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Anonymous No.718003810 >>718004343 >>718004362 >>718004586 >>718004876 >>718005215 >>718005380 >>718005440 >>718005462 >>718005882 >>718005972 >>718006131 >>718006282 >>718007091 >>718008338 >>718010157 >>718011448 >>718011813 >>718011957 >>718012807 >>718013009 >>718013665 >>718015878 >>718016057 >>718016213 >>718016548 >>718020574 >>718021631 >>718021719 >>718021863 >>718022432 >>718022950 >>718023330 >>718029223 >>718033886 >>718034906 >>718035409
VALVE BUTTFUKT BY PAYPAL
Get in here /v/ros. Why is Gaben so submissive?
Anonymous No.718004167
i love the epic store now saar!
Anonymous No.718004295 >>718007360 >>718019538 >>718023424 >>718024802 >>718033329
Anonymous No.718004343 >>718005102 >>718005620 >>718039020
>>718003810 (OP)
They should just drop PayPal they’re complete pointless now anyway
Anonymous No.718004362
>>718003810 (OP)
I don't use steam so fucking whatever.
Anonymous No.718004586
>>718003810 (OP)
pajeet nation thread, do not reply
Anonymous No.718004673
I barely ever used paypal and deleted my shit for it years ago. They are a terrible company.
Anonymous No.718004876 >>718023623
>>718003810 (OP)
>affects third world currencies only
Did south americans use paypal to begin with?
Anonymous No.718005102 >>718005620 >>718013519 >>718018578 >>718035896 >>718038780
>>718004343
>"just don't use PayPal and plug your card info into any random website where you buy shit" says the snoy moments before the semiannual playstation databreach
Anonymous No.718005215
>>718003810 (OP)
turd worlders btfo
Anonymous No.718005380 >>718014194
>>718003810 (OP)
>in any currencies except EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD, and USD
But that's every currency that actually matters
Anonymous No.718005440
>>718003810 (OP)
Oh no! This changes... what exactly since nobody outside of the US uses paypal anyway
Anonymous No.718005462 >>718006284 >>718006356
>>718003810 (OP)
time for steam and x to join forces
elon save the day
Anonymous No.718005620 >>718011156
>>718004343
>>718005102
They should add Google Wallet and that whatever Apple has.
Anonymous No.718005882 >>718006182 >>718010575 >>718016701
>>718003810 (OP)
Isn't it kind of weird that all the regions paypal left alone are in the 12 EYES intelligence agreement? Isn't that weird? What are the chances of that huh
Anonymous No.718005972 >>718006364 >>718013956
>>718003810 (OP)
why digitial stores aren't using the more responsive cryptos as a medium is beyond me.
So many of the chuckle fucks tried trading for BTC directly and got burned, all the while XRP and the like were there and built from the ground up to be nothing more than a medium for international exchange. Quick in, Quick out. Never hold it. Just exchange.
Anonymous No.718006131
>>718003810 (OP)
Its valve's bank that wont accept them, not paypal
Anonymous No.718006182
>>718005882
for now...
Anonymous No.718006282 >>718017690
>>718003810 (OP)
latinx bros....we cant use our e-money to buy vydya anymore.... se acabo
Anonymous No.718006284
>>718005462
DADDY NEWELL SAVE ME
Anonymous No.718006356
>>718005462
good morning saar.
Anonymous No.718006364 >>718006853 >>718035656
>>718005972
>see game on steam
>click buy
>click paypal
>got muh game
Vs
>make crypto exchange account
>use third party like visa to deposit money on crypto exchange
>learn how trading works
>but a market buy order on xrp
>get xrp
>go onto steam
>click buy
>click use crypto
>click xrp
>get wallet adress
>go to crypto wallet
>click deposit
>double check everything and transfer the xrp
>have to wait a bit for valve to confirm my transfer since there's nobody inbetween to stand for my purchase
>can now download my game

Fuck off
Anonymous No.718006853 >>718023507
>>718006364
there are xrp payment processors
you're not "buying xrp". you're giving your national currency to an entity little different than paypal.
But keep living in 2010
Anonymous No.718007091 >>718015981
>>718003810 (OP)
This is being prematively done before people start moving over to digital currencies isn't it
Anonymous No.718007360 >>718007812 >>718010560 >>718036468
>>718004295
Natural monopolies are literally the one single good kind of monopoly. Steam is a natural monopoly because their service is better than the competition.
Anonymous No.718007812 >>718008087 >>718009727 >>718010595 >>718011678 >>718014753 >>718015358 >>718015450 >>718016327 >>718017190 >>718017735 >>718031256 >>718034980 >>718038278
>>718007360
They are a monopoly not because they are "better" but because they were first. They also engaged in a lot of exclusivity deals in their early years to embed their position as the only option to go to them. They don't do any exclusivity deals now because now they no longer need them. I.e. Modern Warfare 2 had an exclusivity deal with Valve. So did games like Total War Empire (first TW game to REQUIRE Steam).

The networking effect is doing the rest. It would simply be an inconvenience to swap on which platform you are gaming on. All the services they offer are to increase the "locked in" effect. That's why the steam input stuff to i.e. use a Switch Pro controller on PC only works when you start a game via Steam even though nothing stops them from just making it a separate piece of software that just runs in the background.

Their monopoly is not as natural as first meets the eye.
Anonymous No.718008087
>>718007812
being first makes them better
Anonymous No.718008338 >>718008496
>>718003810 (OP)
Paypal is such a scummy libtard company. They literally steal from their own customers
Anonymous No.718008496 >>718010451
>>718008338
what's a good alternative? sick of their shit
Anonymous No.718009727
>>718007812
They were the first when the demand was at an all time low and the sentiment was negative
That does deserve credit
Anonymous No.718009873 >>718034447
Sounds like a skill issue.
Anonymous No.718010157 >>718019182
>>718003810 (OP)
I think gabe is building a OS and a payment company for sure. get ready.
this guy bought a yacht company to get around buying one.
He's the quiet but hits hard all at once type.
Anonymous No.718010451
>>718008496
lol
Anonymous No.718010560
>>718007360
That's not what "natural monopoly" means. Natural monopolies are when it doesn't make sense to have multiple competitors in a field because of high entry cost and network effects. The classic example is water service: it doesn't make sense to have multiple competing water companies putting a bunch of water pipelines all next to each other.
Anonymous No.718010575
>>718005882
a real cohencidence
Anonymous No.718010595
>>718007812
No, they actually are better. Every competitor managed to fuck up their launcher performance, QA, customer service, security, forums, etc. It's not even that Valve is that good, the rest were just lazy or incompetent by the standards of any other industry. GoG is the one competitor that does anything better than Steam and even then it has the caveat of using their dogshit launcher, which defeats the point of GoG; or downloading installers split into x*500MB archives through your browser with a 5MB/s speed limit like it's 2005, which obviously sucks for non-retro games.
Anonymous No.718010628
>in any currencies except EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD, and USD
So which thirdie country are you from that doesnt use any of these?
Anonymous No.718011156 >>718014075
>>718005620
Pretty sure Google Wallet shut down. They mailed me a check for like $0.46 maybe a decade ago. I put it in my trophy case with my $5 check from Sony.
Anonymous No.718011448 >>718011750 >>718012104 >>718012465 >>718015587 >>718017934 >>718021546
>>718003810 (OP)
Why are you people still buying on Steam? Switch to GOG. Buy only DRM free games.
Anonymous No.718011617
Just bought two 3rd party GameCube controllers for like $20 and I'm gonna play with them instead of the original ones I bought so they hopefully last longer (although they're pretty sturdy already). Oh, what's that? You guys are complaining about new games on Steam not being playable? lol
Anonymous No.718011678
>>718007812
Steam is VASTLY superior to all it's competition and they continue to improve with time.
There's nothing stopping any dev from putting their game on any other store but general consumers prefer Steam so much that it makes no sense to not sell there.
Anonymous No.718011750
>>718011448
This issue isn't even about Store preferences it's a larger issue that effects all stores.
Anonymous No.718011813
>>718003810 (OP)
You're an idiot if you rely solely on paypal for your online payments.
It's extremely unstable, only tier above crypto.
Anonymous No.718011957 >>718012172
>>718003810 (OP)
If EGS and Gog are so good, why don't you ever have anything to talk about other than Steam?
Anonymous No.718012104 >>718012172
>>718011448
i am compelled to add to the image count
Anonymous No.718012172 >>718016103 >>718016202 >>718017841
>>718011957
Wake me up when GoG makes any big fuck ups. Last I remember is the steam integration was kinda borked, can't think of anything else.
>>718012104
Based.
Anonymous No.718012465 >>718017234
>>718011448
GOG is unironically the only way to buy older games that will just werk on newer systems.

>inb4 'heh he buys games'
Anonymous No.718012807
>>718003810 (OP)
>except EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD & USD
Nothing of value is lost.
Only countries with these currencies matter, everything else should perish
Anonymous No.718013009
>>718003810 (OP)
just sell tf2 hats
Anonymous No.718013092 >>718013541
Why doesn't Valve open their own bank?
Anonymous No.718013519
>>718005102
I just create a temporary card in my banking app / site to use for the purchase I want and then deactivate it when it's done.
Anonymous No.718013541 >>718013861 >>718017386
>>718013092
Maybe Valve is waiting that the current executive order could save them from this shit.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guaranteeing-fair-banking-for-all-americans/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401/text
https://nichegamer.com/trump-executive-order-payment-processor-censorship/
Anonymous No.718013665
>>718003810 (OP)
Gabe should start payment company instead of stupid shit like making boats.
Anonymous No.718013861 >>718015683 >>718020828
>>718013541
>executive order
Legislative power of a napkin
Anonymous No.718013956
>>718005972
because cryptokikery does nothing for no one and is already being regulated and monitored by exchanges let alone governments
the obfuscation layer means nothing when governments can just track which wallets received your USD to XRP funds all the same, it's literally publicly available as opposed to your bank records
Anonymous No.718014075
>>718011156
Google wallet definitely still exists
Anonymous No.718014181 >>718014227
>submissive
>gigacorp that controls essentially all small-scale economic exchanges forcibly withholds services from you over values dispute
Are you retarded or just brown?
Anonymous No.718014194
>>718005380
According to a thirdie on here, it doesn't actually affect regional pricing, though I assume they pay for a currency exchange.
Anonymous No.718014227 >>718014320
>>718014181
paypal is blocking all third-world currencies
you do the match
Anonymous No.718014320
>>718014227 (Me)
>match instead of math
Damn I should have checked my post for literally one second. Oh well, typos are typos.
Anonymous No.718014753
>>718007812
They weren't first. Stardock did it 3 years prior to steam. Valve just did the online store front for games better, and instead of resting on their immediate success Valve continually refined the platform over the years without skirting and/or overstepping the Monopoly laws. Any studio that made games exclusive for their platform did so willingly or some were even bought by Valve afterwards. Can say the same for some other digital distributors. At the same time Valve does not prevent games and other programs from releasing on any other digital platform that isn't Steam. Takes the same cut from the products as every other distributer takes while lessening that cut the more and more units were sold.

They are just the better platform and nobody else really tries to be better that it.
Anonymous No.718015358 >>718015704
>>718007812
>not because they are "better"
They are in fact better
Your post doesn't make sense because you're wrong already
Show me a single launcher that has a social network + mods + market with items attached
Just one
Anonymous No.718015450 >>718033985
>>718007812
Every other month steam releases some cool feature to improve their application and storefront. Other ones do exist and other ones I have and do purchase games from. Humble Bundle is cheaper with a monthly sub, GOG games exists, even Epic can still be bought from or snag their free games. There is reasons to use other storefronts but just barely. Nothing can compare to Steam.
Anonymous No.718015587
>>718011448
>Switch to GOG.
Already have. Several years ago.
Anonymous No.718015683
>>718013861
But the Tariff were literally executive orders and they turned the whole economy outside down
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/further-modifying-reciprocal-tariff-rates-to-reflect-ongoing-discussions-with-the-peoples-republic-of-china/

They seem to be fairly strong. It would be funny if peepoo doing this shit is some sort of "last ditch effort" to intimidate steam while their power gets curtained.
Anonymous No.718015704 >>718016101
>>718015358
>steamies will actually be all "yes i love all this cancer"
Anonymous No.718015878 >>718015926 >>718017386
>>718003810 (OP)
I have no idea what's even going on anymore. Payment processors are clearly overreaching now that the morality angle didn't work out.
Anonymous No.718015926
>>718015878
jews
Anonymous No.718015981
>>718007091
Digital Euro is well underway.
Anonymous No.718016057
>>718003810 (OP)
Literally third world genocide
Anonymous No.718016101
>>718015704
Yes, I love all this
Why are you even here? Go to the epic chink gay launcher and enjoy it
It has free games!
Anonymous No.718016103
>>718012172
How is this a steam fuck up? This is a paypal action.
Anonymous No.718016202
>>718012172
Wake me up when GoG (Good of Games? Guess you're LARPing and never used GOG) has games.
Anonymous No.718016213 >>718016346
>>718003810 (OP)
>Why is Gaben so submissive?
Literally what is he even supposed to do?
Anonymous No.718016327
>>718007812
They were first, and they're better. The rest is pure cope. You're using a shitty payment processor situation that's fucking up everybody to try and ease your festering butthurt over steam. Fuck off.
Anonymous No.718016346
>>718016213
when the 33rd degree mason says jump a mere 31er like gay ben can only ask "how high?"
Anonymous No.718016548
>>718003810 (OP)
I am sure they are actively looking for alternative payment processors now. Hell windows 8 spooked them enough that they decided to spend the next decade improving gaming on Linux. I am sure they have some plan brewing outside of the publics eye.
Anonymous No.718016663
nobodies going to mention ops filename? lmao
Anonymous No.718016701 >>718016927
>>718005882
>12 eyes
Last I checked it was 5 wtf they are multiplying like crazy
Anonymous No.718016870 >>718017320 >>718017461
COMPLETE
GLOBAL
LACTATION
Anonymous No.718016927 >>718017327
>>718016701
12 eyes is a larger scope but more limited in what's shared.
Anonymous No.718017046
they stopped accepting bitcorn so i don't feel bad for them.
Anonymous No.718017190
>>718007812
all you had to do was not abandon pc, tim
that and develop better software
Anonymous No.718017234
>>718012465
Yeah I never had the chance to try out Westwood's Blade Runner when it first came out in the 90's if it weren't for GOG rereleasing it that would be one of the few game I would thinking about once in while like BF 2142 and Chrome Hounds cause either it became lost media or the servers shut down.
Anonymous No.718017320
>>718016870
For a second I thought I was in a Blizzard thread.
Anonymous No.718017327
>>718016927
Exactly. 12 Eyes is like the "deluxe edition" of the intelligence club - more guests at the party but everyone's still eating from their own plate unless someone explicitly shares. It's mostly SIGINT and cybercrime coordination now, not the broad data fusion you'd see in Five Eyes. Ironically, the more members they add, the less they actually trust each other.
Anonymous No.718017386
>>718015878
My theory is that they got fucked in the butt big time by the executive order >>718013541 and soon, the fair banking bill. Basically they're panicking.
Anonymous No.718017461
>>718016870
In about 22 minutes, the vaporsx will be released into the atmosphere.
Anonymous No.718017690
>>718006282
Why is it happening? I'm used to our president ruining Mexico, but why wouldn't PayPal / Valve take our money?
Anonymous No.718017735
>>718007812
>They also engaged in a lot of exclusivity deals
With... Their own games? Retard
Anonymous No.718017841 >>718018628
>>718012172
>Wake me up when GoG makes any big fuck ups.
You are supporting retarded pro censorship trannies
Anonymous No.718017934 >>718018084
>>718011448
Tranny
Anonymous No.718018084
>>718017934
>Gog and Epic are pro censorship
>Based Gabe is pro freedom of expression
Anonymous No.718018547
Oh, so that's why I couldn't use PayPal for some reason during last Summer Sale. But since other payment options were available, I simply didn't use PayPal that time so I don't see a problem. They made sending money to account too problematic in the past already so I guess I will only use it now for buying plastic models from Japan or few European shops.

In the end, I fail to see how this is somehow my problem.
Anonymous No.718018578 >>718018897
>>718005102
Unironically yes, every time I've had my CC number stolen, I get 100% of the charges refunded, and the company sends me a new card. Explain the benefit of PayPal over this.
Anonymous No.718018628 >>718021448
>>718017841
>5 years ago
Anonymous No.718018897 >>718018995
>>718018578
i don't want a bank statement containing my paypal purchases. i don't want websites have access to my card info. if you can't grasp why, that's a brain diff.
Anonymous No.718018995 >>718020994
>>718018897
>I don't want a bank statement containing my paypal purchases
Why not
Anonymous No.718019182
>>718010157
>breaking news: bilderberg group meeting held on jeff bezos uberyacht sinks killing every single important person in the entire world. in unrelated news, long awaited game half life 3 is released
Anonymous No.718019325 >>718021990 >>718025470 >>718031393
>wins by doing nothing
Anonymous No.718019538
>>718004295
Steam isn't the issue here the payment processors are, Gaben could say no and then the payment processors would block them, if you switch to a different launcher after that the same thing would happen as long as the payment processors are unhappy with your content
Anonymous No.718019670 >>718034321
Valve should start a bank.
Anonymous No.718020210
Blik is a superior online payment system but obviously a shithole country like US cannot comprehend it.
Anonymous No.718020574
>>718003810 (OP)
steam overlay started to chunk my computer performance for no fucking reason
Anonymous No.718020828
>>718013861
Literal law unless congress overturns it (which isn't happening), or the sitting president nixes it.
Anonymous No.718020994 >>718034265
>>718018995
because i buy a ton of chemicals related to human reduction
Anonymous No.718021448
>>718018628
They recently told kagura games they're going to heavily limit or stop accepting porn games going forward.
Anonymous No.718021546
>>718011448
A lot of steam games are drm free and if they aren't, they're piss easy to crack. The only drm that's a problem is denuvo and steam tells you when a game is infected with that before you buy it.
Anonymous No.718021631
>>718003810 (OP)
Every single relevant currencies are still supported dumb epic shill.
Anonymous No.718021719
>>718003810 (OP)
Oh wow, must be tough.
Anonymous No.718021863
>>718003810 (OP)
>except
>euro
>cad
>usd
>pound
>yen
>ozz dollar
so?
Anonymous No.718021990
>>718019325
>Fortnite player numbers are at all time lows
>Getting barely more than CS2 nowadays
Anonymous No.718022432
>>718003810 (OP)
>implying Valve doesn't use other payment processors that accept local currencies and this will not hurt paypal's main business model of collecting revenue from currency conversions
Anonymous No.718022950
>>718003810 (OP)
Based, third worlders BTFO. Anyway, every Paypal account can hold USD as balance.
Anonymous No.718023330 >>718023594 >>718025306 >>718025879
>>718003810 (OP)
eu uso pix bb
Anonymous No.718023372
Can gaben afford to buy a payment processor and just kick out mc/visa/pp?
Anonymous No.718023424 >>718024251
>>718004295
Steam isn't a monopoly, there are alternatives, it just so happens that they all suck.
Anonymous No.718023507
>>718006853
>But keep living in 2010
nta but I wish I could, things were so much better back then, even 4chan sucked far less.
Anonymous No.718023594
>>718023330
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSMOKIN'
Anonymous No.718023623
>>718004876
No we use pix or debit cards.
Anonymous No.718024251 >>718035832
>>718023424
imbecile
Anonymous No.718024802
>>718004295
2pbp
Anonymous No.718025118
>paypal
It's fucking nothing. Nobody uses this bullshit unless they're dealing with ebay
Anonymous No.718025306
>>718023330
BASEADO
Anonymous No.718025470
>>718019325
You mean
>wins by charging nothing
Anonymous No.718025879
>>718023330
>click to buy game
>send money from my account to steam
>no third party jew
BASED
Anonymous No.718029223
>>718003810 (OP)
Just buy steam wallet duh!
Anonymous No.718031256
>>718007812
>They are a monopoly not because they are "better" but because they were first.
Cope. Myspace was first but it still got destroyed by Facebook.
>Modern Warfare 2 had an exclusivity deal with Valve.
Post a source that it was actually a deal and they didn't decide to do it on their own. At the time Games for Windows Live was a thing that was actually paying to make exclusivity deals. There were other series such as Direct2Drive as well. I remember at the time some developer were making Steam a requirement to use it as a form of DRM.
>All the services they offer are to increase the "locked in" effect. That's why the steam input stuff to i.e. use a Switch Pro controller on PC only works when you start a game via Steam even though nothing stops them from just making it a separate piece of software that just runs in the background.
(1) You just made an implication that Steam adding nice features is actually insidious because it's to "enforce their monopoly" so they should either make universal freeware for everyone's benefit or not do so at all. (2) You can also add a nonsteam game through Steam to use these features. You can, for example, use the GoG version of New Vegas and choose to add it and run it through Steam to still use Steam overlay's features even though you do not own the Steam version of New Vegas. They could have easily made it so it doesn't work trying to use it on a nonsteam version of a game that is on Steam. (3) No one stops anyone else from adding these services on their own platform. Services such as Proton, developed by Valve, are open source.

I will agree that Steam sucks because it is still a DRM launcher for a store. But it's the only tolerable now, if a game didn't have a GoG version and it wasn't on Steam either, I simply would never buy it. Sorry sale of whatever Steam failed competitor you're from (can you be hired by multiple corporations at the same time if they just want the same messages promoted)?
Anonymous No.718031393 >>718031742
>>718019325
But he's not winning though. And the payment thing is affecting everyone so will affect him too.
Anonymous No.718031742
>>718031393
It won't affect him because Epic doesn't sell games, they give them away.
Anonymous No.718033329
>>718004295
Steam is to games as garmin is to gps
Anonymous No.718033886
>>718003810 (OP)
How fair and unbiased and impartial are they.
Anonymous No.718033985
>>718015450
>Every other month steam releases some cool feature to improve their application and storefront
*Every other month, Steam releases some useless bloat that nobody uses and often serves to slow down the rest of the client, but shills can list it on the checklist even though you'd never use it compared to standalone versions.

And it's funny how long it takes them to include the BASIC FEATURES that a download client should have. Like you might not know this, little zoomer, but Steam didn't even have download re-ordering for the longest time. There's also glaring flaws that still exist that you don't know about, because you only have like 8 F2P games, but Steam still has issues like lacking asynchronous image loading that presents a software bottleneck to scrolling through any sizeable library, even though it's just loading little <10kb ICO files.

Compared to an actually good company like Epic, which lets you use token login to download and play games, so you're free to just use superior Open Source clients like Heroic. Meanwhile, Valve doesn't respect the customer enough to even let you use the official SteamCMD to run games, even though it's fully capable of it for servers and the like. Ridiculous.
Anonymous No.718034265 >>718035015
>>718020994
>human reduction
You're melting people?
Anonymous No.718034321
>>718019670
>A bank that isn't owned by jews
Good fucking luck. Gabe's son will be killed the minute Gabe kicks the bucket and the bank will just be another mainstream bank.
Anonymous No.718034447
>>718009873
Where did you get this picture of me?
Anonymous No.718034906
>>718003810 (OP)
who the fuck uses paypal anyway?
>bro just give a third party company not affiliated with any established banks your money bro just trust us bro
uhhh, no????
Anonymous No.718034980
>>718007812
"Of course we'll bundle our Steam software with Counter-Strike 2; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our store are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us."
-- CEO Gabe Newell, Steam Data Systems press release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMIxYbhWQMI
Anonymous No.718035015 >>718035963
>>718034265
nah that's illegal i would never do that
Anonymous No.718035101
Who the fuck uses paypal in 2025?
Anonymous No.718035409
>>718003810 (OP)
>can't buy PayPal codes to charge up the account and then buy vidya
Polish zoomers are gonna fucking kill themselves.
That's what I would say ten years ago but everyone uses blik now.
Anonymous No.718035523
Use convenience stores payment option

Anonymous and only 50 cents(converted) per any transaction amount.
Anonymous No.718035656
>>718006364
in actuality
>use coinbase debit card
>input it like a normal debit card
>my purchase goes through with no hassle whatsoever
just that fucking easy
Anonymous No.718035832
>>718024251
He's right nigger. Tell timmy to improve the store
Anonymous No.718035896
>>718005102
>Snoy outta fucking nowhere
Buckbroken
Anonymous No.718035963
>>718035015
Kek
Anonymous No.718036468
>>718007360
Monopoly is just brainlet econ 101 nonsense. The only thing that matters is the company is run well, a private company with a benevolent ruler is always going to be superior to x number of public corporate shitholes. You will note competing companies often conspire on price fixing etc.

If a company is not benevolent and a monopoly it should smply be nationalized
Anonymous No.718036776
people fucking hate paypal nowadays

I never seen anyone say anything good about the service in the past decade, it's more of a hurdle than anything else
Anonymous No.718036906
The ID and censorship shit is really partly your fault.
You retards wouldn't fight against censorship of fucking usernames. Instead since this place is literally riddit minus usernames used by the same fucking people who use FB and Riddit who kept posting cucked images with censored usernames because it was taken straight from riddit, here we are the censorship taken to its logical conclusion.
Good job, /v/eddit. You redditfrog posting goyslop slurping golems.
Anonymous No.718038278
>>718007812

I seem to remember when Origin Uplay and Epic first launched that they had barebones features and refused to work on them because their only goal was getting a bigger percent of the game sale and nothing more.

You can say Steam has locked in their userbase but Steam grew with its users. Now who wants to play on another platform when they can use all the chat, streaming features or hell even Epic didnt even have a shopping cart feature at launch for the store so you could only buy one game at a time. Has that been changed?

No point in waiting years for other companies to get their shit together when Steam just werks. The other companies seem satisfied that people only use their launcher to boot up their occasional times exclusive. Nothing wrong with that, but if they dont want to be delegated to as that launcher people sometimes use, maybe they should try putting in half the work Valve does first before having a bitchfit. Might make for a more compelling argument to use them.
Anonymous No.718038780
>>718005102
On random websites you should not put your goipal info either.
Anonymous No.718039020
>>718004343
Yeah I used to use it but now I just use my card directly. Forgot it has PayPal desu