Thread 718537741

>Does nothing
>Wins
Why is this allowed?

>>718537741 (OP)
Because the competition is shit.

>>718537741 (OP)
Getting out of the players' way and giving the impression of "doing nothing" is exactly what you want from a digital storefront/DRM program like Steam. If he's doing his job right, it's going to seem like he's doing nothing at all. The whole point is to allow the purchasing, downloading, and playing of games to be as seamless, simple, and easy to use as possible

Steam is an anticonsumer monopoly and a form of DRM. You do not own Steam products, Valve does and can revoke access at any time like they did when they recently censored several hundred video games on orders of the Trump administration.
They are not your friends.

>>718537741 (OP)
Respects ur money

>>718537843
Not just shit, but SO fucking shit that doing nothing is way better than what they're doing.

>>718538251
>Steam is an anticonsumer monopoly
Good morning saar!

because he's big sexy

Gabe Newell is a known scammer who commits false advertising and fraud.

Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.

I could point to any number of development companies and have a whole laundry list of shit I could complain about. Even ones I like.
My issues with Valve begin and end with
>Why are all the Source 2 SDKs windows only?
>Why can't I invite non-friends to Steam Groups without individually sending them a link to it
>WHERE STEAMHOME DESKTOP CLIENT
And those are relatively minor issues.

>>718537741 (OP)
The Gabe Newell you see today is not the same one that you see in your pic

>>718537741 (OP)
>keep company private and not public, don't fall for jewish tricks

Curious!

>>718537741 (OP)
>nothing
/v/ told me was scuba diving daily

>>718537741 (OP)
Valve is the Nortubel of game companies

>>718538912
/v/ros... is this true?

>owns nothing
>is happy
Why is this allowed?

>Does nothing for his fanbase
>they still suck him off like he's a cult leader
Why tho

what a flock of angry indians this thread attracted.
actually... should a group of indians have its own name?
like a murder of crows?
a street of indians...
yes.
the thread has attracted a street of indians.

>steals microsoft money
>bankrupts sierra
based

where are the Epic shills when you need them? I had the perfect AI slop to mock them

>>718537741 (OP)
He was the first

>>718538251

naa game newell is my friend he replied to one of my emails

>>718541419
>I recognize whites by their submission to billionaires
Grim

>>718537843
Doesn't this Mr. Newell know that gaming psychology experts have proven that incremental progress mobile games that feature limited time events and exclusive cosmetics are the modern approach to gaming monetization?

Heh, he's going to succumb to our superior marketing promotion data that we paid "experts" millions of dollars to analyze. He's going down any minute now... aaaaaany minuuuuute now... yeah...

>>718537741 (OP)
I don't understand the brand loyalty towards this company.

>>718537741 (OP)
Because it's a storefront and a storefront shouldn't be doing stuff not storefront-y.

>>718545714
>does nothing to piss you off
>you don't get pissed off
It's that simple. I don't think about Steam because it's such an unobtrusive piece of software. Any other storefront, I think of how much of a hassle it is to do things.

>>718545714
They made Half Life. That's literally it.

>>718538251
console corpos are way worse by a mile
steam had to be sued in australia to improve their refund terms and they implemented it globally
meanwhile sony and nintendo still tell you to fuck off if you downloaded and played the game for even a minute

>>718545860
I've never seen any storefront do anything to piss me off either so I don't understand your point at all.

The only good alternatives are GOG (Which is never going to be mainstream popular as long as the concept of DRM exists in the minds of gaming corpos) and Itch.io (Niche stuff for the most part). Every other one is either openly hostile to their players or provide a worse service than Steam, GoG and Itch.

Winning

>>718537741 (OP)
>has to censor and delete thousands of products just because jews and women are screeching
>wins
choose one cuck

>>718542784
dude any time its indians crying about valve those are epic shills.
they had to stop directly shilling epic because people like you would mock them too easily.

Doing nothing > actively enshittifying your service

>>718546131
>migrate my games drive
>try to get epic to recognize my already installed games
>have to start an installation at the new location, pause it, move my data to that location, and resume
What the fuck. Nevermind the fact that you have to browse a web page to manage your own library.
>GOG
>same shit with the launcher (though migration is easier)
>without the launcher, have to...browse a web page to manage my library
>in that scenario, I'm downloading files in 4GB chunks (because FAT32 is totes still a thing, y'all) and taking another step to install
>also, GOG has no games
>also, GOG begs for money when you buy
>also, GOG has games prehacked with sometimes outdated community patches, so undoing that is a nightmare
>also, official patches are delayed a lot of the time
EA, MS, and Ubisoft don't even really count, and they all have their own shitty launchers that are functionally identical to GOG's and EA's.
Battle.net is a good launcher, but the only games are Diablo 1, 2, and 4.
So Steam is there, installing and running my games reliably. But there's no reason to like it.

>>718546289
>Talks about Humble
>This is steam's fault
Huh?

>>718546439
>they had to stop directly shilling epic because people like you would mock them too easily.
not my fault that they are too stupid and easy to mock, I would post the AI slop anyways

>>718537741 (OP)
White privilege

>>718546439
GOG pays shills too, they're the ones that make most of the
>ERM YOU OWN NOTHING IF YOU VALVE
Even though their actual usage policy grants them the right to money stolen you for way less, since basically the only way you can get Valve to ACTUALLY revoke your games is by engaging in credit card fraud.

>>718546678
bro I am glazing your success, don't get me wrong here.

>>718546734
You mean democrat liberal privilege, if he were conservative he wouldnt be successful

>>718539392
the zoomers and alphas are the main posters here now and they grew with not owning anything, so they're used to it.
blame their dogshit millennial parents.

>>718547365
...what

>>718547365
You must be 18 to post here (ie. a boomer).

>grampa what was it like to own your games?
>i...i don't know- HURGH *dies*

>>718547365
Your cartridges and discs are all that you "own" the data on them isn't yours and any slight damage to the storage media will ruin it completely

You've always been renting data, it's just the vehicle to get that data to your home was different in the past. You can back up your Steam games in 20 different USB storage drives if you feel like it. Fuck, you can burn them to DVD if you have a spare DVD burner from 2005 lying around.

Your Atari 2600 cartridges are legally yours but there's no guarantee you can play them in perpetuity. The slightest dampness and they're gone.

>>718548528
It used to be a thing, but Valve actually "let you" make install discs for LAN parties.
Of course now you can stream your install to everyone at the LAN since it's faster.

>>718538912
HE'S BACK!

>>718537741 (OP)
>it's wasting billions in the fucking ocean instead of bankrolling the creation of an OS that puts a nail in the coffin of Windows once and for all
Doing nothing is actually bad.

>>718549853
SteamOS is already better than windows, the only shit that's kinda annoying is it being autistic about installing to ANYTHING but an NVME ssd.
Even the eMMC ssd that came with the og deck.