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[bender]

As young as I obviously am, I've yet to even see a black history month sale. Much less, ugly women whatever

 

[Topher]

Do not support a racist company. :: Steam Discussions

steamcommunity.com

Steam these days partakes in all the WOKE preachy nonsense.

Fanboys always turn a blind eye to the transgressions of the company they simp for.

That event was mentioned in the article I linked already my man. Why are you getting personal?

 

[MarV0]

That event was mentiond in the article I linked already my man. Why are you getting personal?

I'm not at all my apologies if you think I'm getting personal. I don't even know if you are a PC gamer or if you even use Steam.

Steam has increasingly been participating in woke politics yet there is no outcry.

I also believe Steam fanboys are among the worst rivalled only by Apple fanboys.

 

[Buggy Loop]

They just had a sale for wahmen's day.

Women are woke now? FFS. Can't even spell women correctly. Don't you have a mother? Seek therapy.

 

[bender]

Topher simps for Tim Sweeney's weenie.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Steam Year In Review 2024

At the end of every year, our team looks back at the features we shipped and the problems we solved. We summarize that work for the developers and publishers of PC games.

steamcommunity.com

40 mil concurrents announced in this blog post almost twice what they had during COVID.

 

[jburdick7]

I mean they got me to switch off console gaming as someone who tried to buy physical copies of everything. I don’t think Valve’s perfect but of all the choices available to me as a gamer they’re the ones I find most likely to treat me like they want my money rather than acting like they’re entitled to it.

I wish the other launchers could compete but they just can’t. I get what Epic was trying to do but they largely came across as shady assholes to me and regardless of what games were coming to their platform they just didn’t seem like the type of people I’d want to support. Valve seems to understand this in spades and appears to be one of the only companies in gaming that doesn’t have employees posting idiotic crap all over social media and bickering with fans.

The Steam Deck is in a similar boat - are there more powerful handhelds? Yup. Are they as convenient, as easy to use, or as supported as the Steam Deck? No way. Hell, the old LCD model just got the ability to wake with Bluetooth in the beta path, something Valve previously said wasn’t possible.

And as far as patching is concerned maybe I do it differently but Steam is as console-like as can be. I just let Steam run in the background 24/7 and let it update between like 2 and 4 AM. Never have one of my games in need of an update when I want to play it. Really the only thing that frustrates me is there’s no integrated way for me to easily update the box art for my games in big picture. If they could just integrate the Steam Griddb Decky Plugin into big picture mode it’d pretty much be perfect for my use cases.

Valve’s not perfect but they’re sure as shit better than any of the alternatives.

 

[Topher]

I'm not at all my apologies if you think I'm getting personal. I don't even know if you are a PC gamer or if you even use Steam.

Steam has increasingly been participating in woke politics yet there is no outcry.

I also believe Steam fanboys are among the worst rivalled only by Apple fanboys.

Alright....sorry for misreading you. I don't think there is any "outcry" because there really isn't a big deal made about these things by Valve and most folks really don't care. There has promotions for minority and gay groups long before the word "woke" became so notorious.

 

[DaciaJC]

LGBT, ugly female protagonist, BLM, women in games etc. The usual preaching crap.

They just had a sale for wahmen's day.

I don't recall seeing one and I couldn't find such a sale listed on their official calendar here, so I did some digging on Reddit. This is what I found:

I dunno, dude, seems like a stretch. Even more so with BLM, I haven't been able to find any connection at all between that garbage organization and Valve/Steam.

 

[Pandawan]

Honestly man imho, it's not what you're saying but it's the way you're saying it. Yes I basically agree with your point, in principle, about the 'updates for single player games' but it's hard to agree with your argument as a whole because you sound completely unhinged. Anyways man just thought I'd mention that for once in my life.

I am not unhinged, but became mad.

I didn't expect such aggressively intrusive and confident stupidity from people.

I wrote a message and one person immediately popped up: "Stop using shortcuts if you don't want updates in Steam."

The person is talking absolute nonsense, but he is sure that he is giving me fair advice.

Shortcuts do not affect anything. I immediately wrote in my first message that if you do not launch it with shortcuts, but through Steam, then the Play button changes to Update. The person does not read, talks absolute nonsense, but is sure that I need to be taught stupid advice.

Then the second one immediately popped up:

"Your Internet is bad! You are to blame, not Steam! Steam is not a place for people with bad Internet"

I have normal Internet.

Then the third one pops up and talks some more nonsense, convincing me that I am wrong with the help of absolutely delirious arguments.

Sorry, I'm absolutely right to be mad. I don't know what it is, whether I've encountered mass stupidity, or I'm being trolled, or some bots have been mass-drilling my words in defense of Steam, but it's a completely healthy reaction - to get mad when people are talking absolute, utter nonsense in a patronizing manner towards my words.

 

[ArtHands]

Honestly man imho, it's not what you're saying but it's the way you're saying it. Yes I basically agree with your point, in principle, about the 'updates for single player games' but it's hard to agree with your argument as a whole because you sound completely unhinged. Anyways man just thought I'd mention that for once in my life.


OT, some people have made it unnecessarily difficult to sift this thread for actual valid complaints. One of the best I've found so far imo was physical games being an option for purchase but I'm not sure how that could work. Would Valve just build an Amazon-style warehouse for physical and have pubs send there initially? And then forward to customers as they're purchased? Discounting older titles as they accumulate or need to clear space? Are users able to choose physical only, is there an option for digital & physical? Are there enough users interested in physical copies for this part of the business to be sustainable? I personally would buy physical copies for a handful of the games in my library but they would literally just be for the shelf because I don't have a disc drive on my main PC.

On the idea of building a warehouse, if they were going this route it might?? make sense to setup the whole fabs themselves and mass print the physical copies then outsource for collectible editions of games. Idk how these fabs work though.. I mean it's just discs and plastic cases so shouldn't be all that complicated.

Again though it's how many people actually want to buy physical. I don't expect nor do I want Valve to allocate (waste) any resources on something that only 2% of their customers would ever use.

I don't think there's any actual valid complaints judging by the posts here. We have people advocating them to put players first by chasing publishers (who wants to add their own launchers) away among other rubbishes.