Thread 722958769

He’s monopolizing the industry.

>>722958769 (OP)
>do nothing
>win
how can gaben be this powerful?

>>722958769 (OP)
I'm buying it on Epic knowing some /v/irgin is raging at this decision

Why do we need some fucking app to buy and launch software again? I'm sick of this shit. At least gog galaxy is optional.

>>722958769 (OP)
How does EA fuck up this badly?

>>722958769 (OP)
So, will they get a refund on EA app first? Or is he telling people to buy the game twice?

>>722959853
correct

>>722959060
Epic own!

>>722959060
you tell them sister!

>>722959415
they don't give a single shit anymore, every stockholder just got a bajillion dollars from the Saudis

>>722959853
EA has a pretty generous refund policy

>>722958769 (OP)
I thought the Steam version uses EA App? Who's lying?

>>722958769 (OP)
>literally admits to making steam solely to stop people being able to trade in their copies of HL2
>bro gaben is based saars

no, he's one of the core reasons gaming is fucked
HL2 literally had a fucking 10Mb patch on day one with most people having dial up, imagine being told 'bro, you r offline game online and NEEDS you to download this shitty fuckling client

but revisionists will rape reality to worship scum

>>722958769 (OP)
>mfw EA, Xbox and valorant all dies within weeks of the steam sale

>>722958769 (OP)
>just buy the game again goyim :^)
he should be shot

>>722960375
BF6's steam page doesn't have the
>Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA online activation and EA app software installation and background use required.
notice that other EA games have.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2807960/Battlefield_6/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1517290/Battlefield_2042/

>>722960561
>saar steam is bharatphobic please install epic saar

>>722958769 (OP)
does Zampella still work with Respawn?

>>722960375
EA has been pulling back on their launcher on Steam thankfully.

>>722960919
If only we could get a BF6 Steam owner here to have the final say

>>722960561
I hope EA is paying you for this shit considering how many times ive seen you post it today, faggot.

>>722960561
So all this anti-Steam grudge came from an update from 20 years ago or something?

>>722958769 (OP)
Have you considered providing a service that's as good as or perhaps even better than Steam?
You know, not fucking over your customers whenever you get the chance?
No, of course not.

>>722961494
>Have you considered providing a service that's as good as or perhaps even better than Steam
cool it with the antisemitism

>>722959060
nooooo you cant!!!

>simply be a private company
>watch the entire world piss and shit themselves with rage

>>722961494
DELETE THIS

>>722958769 (OP)
>locked-out Battlefield 6 owners
Please explain. How do you "own" a game and yet are locked out from playing it?

>>722961847
>good morning sar
>here is your storefront

>>722960561
Most people, and by people I mean people who live populated cities, already had DSL internet in 2004 when HL2 released. 10mb files were really not that big of a deal back then.

>>722961968
The eternal jeet strikes again.

>>722960561
If it wasn't gay ben, it would've been someone else. Steam wasn't exactly popular when it first came out and was just DRM for Valve games, but people warmed to it over the years as everything else became worse. Steam has remained pretty benign in comparison.

>>722960561
1) steam was actually created to push updates for Counter Strike and make sure everyone was playing the same game
2) its been 20 years, did you finally manage to download the 10 Mb patch?

>>722961494
Thats because we are not the customers silly, shareholders are

Is a 10mb patch really the latest cope by the paid Epic shills?

>SAAR, WE USE THE RACISM

yes, that's right. But Valve is the main reason we have online only PC

Thankfully I either pirate or else buy from sites that use stolen cdkeys

fuck any game publisher that uses steam or epic

>>722962308
>Thats because we are not the customers silly, shareholders are
That's pretty much it. Valve is a private company so they don't have to worry about shareholders outside the company who just happened to buy some shares and demand line goes up this quarter. They can actually plan ahead without having to fuck over their customers because in the long term that's more profitable. The rest of the industry hates them for that.

>>722959182
The same reason we have grocery stores we drive to so we can buy food in one place rather than going door to door asking people what they've got in their gardens.

>>722962783
>But Valve is the main reason we have online only PC
You're conveniently forgetting that physical died when the only alternative to steam was securom and games for windows live.

>>722959060
You go, Tim!

>>722958769 (OP)
>Have the best service
>REEEEEEEEEEE THAT'S NOT ALLOWED MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY!!!!!

>>722959182
Yeah, this guy gets it.
>>722962843
I don't know if it was literally Steams original mission statement but very early on the big man himself said it was all about convenience.
>Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a price problem.

Sure, you can claim Steam killed physical games and releasing broken games is totally Steam's fault because you can just shove out a day 1 update It's not Steam's fault, but I'll roll with the narrative but transferring data was getting cheaper and quicker at a mind blowing pace. Digital stores and online updates were going to happen when data got cheap. Steam just got their foot in the door first. And thank god they did. Look at the customer service/unfriendly to consumers nightmare that other storefronts are. Steam isn't an angel that saved gaming and uplifted society but it could be worse. Much much worse.

>>722958769 (OP)
Monopolies aren't illegal if the market leader isn't doing things to keep their lesser competitors down
Valve literally do nothing and their lesser competitors fuck it up all by themselves

I'm just imagining the timeline if Steam didn't enter the Market when they did. Like if EA somehow won the race with the "EA Online Storefront" and we'd all be talking about how cool EAOS is.

>>722962902
Hi Gabe

>>722963454
>But it could be worse
Man, I remember when Anno 2070 came out you could only install the game like 2 or 3 times before it locked you out. You had to literally pick up the phone and call the Uplay customer service number and explain to them why you wanted them to grant you more "install tokens".

>>722963606
i think gog would be the topdog by a big margain then

>Steam wins because it's not consumer antagonistic
Funny how that works.

>>722963606
There's a timeline where no one wins and we're stuck juggling 10 launchers and storefronts and having to deal with storefront exclusivity that would make the most ardent console warrior worry.

>>722964468
>there might be worse realities than this one
not my problem

Vinny Z is pretty based
>hates EA
>hates raytracing slop
>hates framegen slop
>insists on making his games without gimmicks or crutches, actually targets real optimization

>>722962843
Video game stores existed before app normalcy, bad comparison

>>722962902
physical died the day thumb drives came out
the nails in the coffin were cheap hard drives
the first thing you did when you still bought physical games was ripped it to iso and used a cd crack so you never has to use the disc ever again and when you wanted to reinstall games it was fast. 48x cd drives sounded like a fucking table saw and were still slow as molasses.

>>722964659
>adds niggers and fags
pretty unbased

>>722964837
I think that was started under someone else but yeah, wish he would've prevented that

Either way I'll take what I can get these days.
Any dev that isn't supporting UE5 slop should be recognized.

>>722964957
i don't care who started it. if you allow that to happen to your home just to get some esg money, then you deserve it to burn down.

>>722959182
cause you own nothing faggot

>>722963454
>eleasing broken games is totally Steam's fault because you can just shove out a day 1 update
why do that when every game is early assass till they do a console vers then it comes out

>>722958769 (OP)
Just use Steam and GOG. Competition is good.

>>722958959
>how can gaben be this powerful?
He isn't. Battlefieldfags will literally do ANYTHING to stop people from going back to Call of Duty. And with them supposedly reducing SBMM and disbanded lobbies, Battlefieldfags are in panic mode. Of course I know better and won't be fooled by CoD's faggotry. They lost my trust with Cold War and I won't be going back. My friend already said he pre-ordered it like a fucking retard, but I won't even gameshare it from him, I refuse to play CoDslop, just like I refuse to play Battlefieldslop. FPS games are dead.

>>722958769 (OP)
imagine telling people to buy the game again