Well, I didn't.
Have people been negative against Steam? I mostly see PC negativity around the GPU market and rightfully so.
But why did China find Steam and not EGS which Tencent has significant ownership of?
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pointed out when discussing the hardware market.
I'm not gonna bother searching for them - but the PC players don't buy games talking point is pretty common.I see that rhetoric about consoles, but not Steam or PC except as
Well isn’t that amazing for you!
Yeah, it is!
Yeah, I've seen it often on this forum.
There is tons of competition - gamepass, MS store, EA store, Ubisoft store, Epic games store, Amazon, GoG, Humble store and more I am forgetting. Like I said Tencent owns a substantial interest in Epic but supposedly jingoistic Chinese gamers flocked to Steam instead.
Change your avatar you traitorous swine!No competition needed if its the right multi billion dollar cooperation.
I do this for all Gamepass games. I add the gamelaunchhelper.exe as a non-Steam game. Then rename it in my library and add relevant art.Please give me the option to rename Steam games in my library, Gaben, and I will suck on your beautiful toes for the rest of my days, praise be.
His son is inheriting the company and the only difference between them is he wants valve making single player stuff again. I'm surprised more people don't know about him
Never heard about it....sounds too good to be true.
Wish Heroic Launcher supported gamepass. It does all this automatically for Epic, Amazon and Gog games.
I do give them credit for being not as openly greedy as other stores. But I refuse to see them differently from any other business. They are in it to make money, and they have some very clever people knowing exactly what they need to do to achieve that. This "your friendly neighborhood GabeN"-thing could just be a marketing gimmick they use. They do dabble quite extensively in games-as-a-service, just like any other big gaming company. And they only reluctantly implement policy changes, like the refund stuff. It just seems weird to me that they are so celebrated by some people.I don't know the history, but as far as I know there is nothing that required Steam to implement that refund policy for the rest of the world. Not calling them "saints", but I'll still give them credit for the best, fully automated refund policy in the business.
I see that rhetoric about consoles, but not Steam or PC except as
R.E.P.O.'s been selling gangbusters on Steam for a couple days now. Not a single peep about it on GAF.
Me realizing I can stop Steam from updating games just by tweaking Windows permissions.
Stuff like Steam Input, their VR implementation they have constantly been improving QoL for PC gamers. I mean to play Gamepass VR games I run them through SteamVR.
I ended up creating so many problems on my system trying that approach that I finally decided it was best to keep a separate partition for the games I don’t want updated and keep my system offline whenever I launch that Windows partition. so far so good. In a worst-case scenario, I could resort to removing the install library from steam then deploying questionable executables. 
It is a negative in the sense that making money is often achieved by trying to screw over your customers. And I have a hard time believing that Valve are any different in that regard, just that they do it more cleverly. That being said, again, I do think they are the least shit option. It's great that they seem to have shifted on the requirement for arbitration on their own. Let's hope that this was indeed genuine goodwill on their part and not some "preemptive strike" because they wanted to avoid some legal stuff/bad PR.
The EU forced them to do that, they were taken to court.
But isnt that the case for literally anything account based stuff? MS can ban you, Sony can ban you, even GOG could ban your account theoretically.
He means since steam is drm, you dont own those games. with something like gog since you get an offline installer, it doesnt even matter if you got banned since you would have those installers.But isnt that the case for literally anything account based stuff? MS can ban you, Sony can ban you, even GOG could ban your account theoretically.
Yeah I am not gonna download several terabytes of installers and store them indefinitely on the off chance my account gets banned. So for me, and I am assuming most others the ability to download installers is theoretical at best.
Yeah, i wrote already that GOG is the best thing in that matter (although you would need to archive the installlers by yrself and ideally before you get banned
). But he sounds like this a Steam only thing. Any account can be banned. Until now I was banned only by one company in my gaming life. That was MS...because they didnt liked the OS I was using. Let that sink in!
It will probably never "go public", but sold to a publicly traded company like Microsoft or Amazon or Google will definitely happen when he passes.
