Thread 720111772

>steals all your games
>steals all your money
>allows ai slop to take over games industry
>pioneers gambling, microtransactions and paid mods
>literally just abandoned his flagship game series that carried him to the top
>/v/tards still bow down to him as if he is a deity
Fatfuck gabencunt can't keep getting away with it

>>720111772 (OP)
He can. Steamies will just bend over harder

>>720112052
But he shouldn't. He must be stopped.

I'm neutral on steam but I will never forgive them for ruining tf2 (maybe I'm being pedantic but they did make some genuinely baffling choices with the game)

>>720111772 (OP)
>Fatfuck gabencunt
What is it with autistic retards and thinking that retarded pet names to shit on something make sense and don't just sound retarded?

>>720111772 (OP)
>pioneers gambling, microtransactions and paid mods
Some ideas are so obvious that someone will act them out eventually.
From Valve's perspective he made an excellent strategic business decision.
From average normal perspective he made a reasonably solid service.
From proper user perspective Steam is limiting.
It's unlikely that he steals games, as locking out access is closer to racket than theft, and your ownership of an instance of someone else's product is both finite, and form-factor locked anyway. Disks can be lost, data centres can be lost, devs themselves okay it. If you want to an anti-Steam argument you should bring it up with publishers and gamedev.
Money you gave out on your own.
Abandoning franchises is definitely bad. I can only speculate on reasons as to why.

DRM is 50/50, mostly not good, but Steam is not as bad as people make it to be.

Same people also forget that the gaming sphere doesn't exist in a vacuum.
It can expire. It takes some, minor or not, resources to make hard storage.
But more importantly, it exists in a sea of economic sharks.
As it makes money, cutthroat people shall inevitably set up there. Gabe is a trendsetter, but he's also a gatekeeper.

>>720113814
>gatekeeper
Yeah, gatekeeper of unfair business practices and screwing over the customer.

>>720113915
Artifact poster, is that you?
It can always be worse.
If a bunch of e-thots can milk people en masse, then more capable people certainly can do it better.
>unfair
Business is war, customers aren't always right, and the ins and outs of the object you call "money" are not in your or anyone elses control bar emission apparatus, skilled people and out-of-context extrajudicial entities.
It's silly to complain about unfair business when everything is unfair.

>>720111772 (OP)
revenuemaxx

>>720113814
>From proper user perspective Steam is limiting.
in what way?
>"reeeee muh ownership"
but I used steamrip.

>>720111772 (OP)
Now imagine EA, Activision/Microsoft, UbiSoft or Take Two took a monopoly position in digital PC game distribution, and how PC gaming would look today.

>>720111772 (OP)
why he look like that

Valve worship was the first 'reddit' thing to ever happen on the internet.

>>720114215
>in what way?
Steam DRM, of-course, no VAC server access in Valve games (but that's a license issue, I don't know how it was in hl1 earliest times), no on-board option to compress game into a licensed ISO to reinstall it at any time, etc.
>steamrip
Neat, but nothing new. Back in 2006-07 there were pirate steam clients, at least on russian forums. You could download a lot of games.
No access to VAC, though.

>>720113378
It's sad, yes.
What in particular did you find most questionable?

>>720111772 (OP)
/v/ has been a brown board for years now

>>720114559
>Steam DRM, of-course, no VAC server access
steam rip, don't care.
>but my vac-
peer to peer servers, don't care
>but my shitty valoran-
shit game, don't care
any other "attempts" you want to try pajeet?
gotta earn back that day you guys missed when the internet went down, right?

>>720114976
The nerfs to weapons like the eviction notice just showed me that the people working on tf2 at that point either didn't give a shit or didn't know what made the game originally so good.

But he made a big social media app for gamers, everyone can see my achievements and badges and my epic collection :)
Everyone on there thinks I'm cool and really good at video gaems, you can even add non-Steam games on Steam, it's based!

>>720115180
Being a smartass about redneck tier personal scale crutch solutions doesn't make you smart or witty, consumer.

>>720116648
Being reliant on a corporation that has been proven to be scummy, fascistical and evil isn't either, corpo shill.

>>720116729
Fascist? "Evil"? Wew. Realy full of your own all or nothing kool-aid, ain'tcha?
I don't think you understand the scope of this industry, or the people that surround all industries.
Either way Steam never failed me, personally, and one can simply not rely on any particular service, as all external services, systems, etc can fail. Even computer tech itself.

I don't see you bitch about Intel putting backdoors up wazoo since 90s as much as one particular "somebody" bitches about Artifact and Valve like they are the third coming of MMM scam pyramid.

>>720111772 (OP)
what is this picture from

>>720111772 (OP)
Billionaires can literally brag about their hobby being COLLECTING FUCKING YACHTS and the retarded masses will still worship them as god and see them as their friend.

>>720111772 (OP)
go back to poisoning /pol/ & reddit, agent

>>720111772 (OP)
Still not buying from your store, Timmy.

>>720119410
Whine of S&Ps is childish.
Some people can make their yachts, by the way. Big fucking deal, huuuman.

>>720115632
Probably the former.
Most peculiar. Did they simply burn out? How can they not understand their own game?

>>720111772 (OP)
Wtf is that shit? No wonder he went skinny

>>720114248
for one they wouldn't allow adult games, except trans gay shit.

>>720114976
not that guy
i can forgive all the shitty cosmetics in the world because I convinced myself they had no gameplay effect and thus didn't matter
i can forgive all the garbage tie-in weapons because I convinced myself that even though they had gameplay effect, nobody used them so they didn't matter
i can forgive all the garbage shit with killstreaks and looping taunts because even though they changed the way people played the game, i convinced myself it wasn't a big deal

what I can't forgive is the utterly garbage matchmaking that effectively killed community servers. i am now utterly convinced that matchmaking and comp fetishization is what killed gaming.

Still better than going full woke desu.

Gabe Newell is an awful scammer and belongs in federal prison for 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.

>>720111772 (OP)
based gay ben

>>720111772 (OP)
You lost tendie.

>>720119947
Burnout mixed with bureaucratic rot. Once the old guard left or got shuffled into VR projects, TF2 became the orphan left in the hallway. They probably threw interns and janitors at the codebase without a clue what made the game tick. Weapon balance became dartboard tier because they were just flipping stats based on Reddit complaints instead of actual gameplay data. It’s like watching someone try to tune a racecar with YouTube comments and a sledgehammer.

>muh tendie
>muh egs
Really can't see past your nose, huh.

>>720119410
He's started numerous businesses, continues to work, and uses his yachts for deep sea research, so whatever. Far more cancerous billionaire clots out there.