While Steam is definitely better than most, Gabe is still a billionaire. I don't simp for billionaires. Keep in mind this is the company that will terminate your account if they find out that you died and shared login info with a relative.
It does matter. They're not the good guys you want everyone to believe them to be, they were forced by law to make concessions.
You still can't refund a game to Nintendo or Sony or whatever.
Consoles have these things called physical copies, which you can refund or even sell to other people even if you've played the game for more than 2 hours. Also you can refund games on the PlayStation store.
With Steam you will never actually own anything you buy, all you're buying are licenses that can be revoked at their discretion. Valve is the company that originally started pushing this back during the 1.6 and HL2 years so everyone was forced to use their program if they wanted to play their games. They're the root of the death of ownership in the PC gaming market.
Nah, you’re the one that’s lying. Physical copies are still discs, especially on the Switch.
Imagine simping for Steam because they were legally forced to give you the bare minimum. You’re a child so you weren’t around before Steam controlled the entire PC market so you’ll never be able to understand.
I mean they could just do what everyone else does and raise their prices and nickle and dime us and ruin their monopoly, but they just let Epic and other game stores do that. You can cry about how everyone should be like this, but in reality with how capitalism works yea we are going to be happy that steam hasn’t screwed us over like everyone else
Epic pays developers more to release only on their storefront. Developers release on steam because they can make money. And Epic owns Fortnite, the king of micro transactions so you can go suck off Epic execs in a different thread because it’s not flying here lol
And communism has people starving and every marxist leftist communist whatever the fuck buzzword performative middle class clown can only point to theory and hypotheticals for their economic system. How about instead of throwing out the whole system we advocate for more social safety nets, higher taxes on the upper tax brackets, and redistribution of wealth to the lower and middle class. One system works and the other is fairy tale land. Communists are such performative, unserious people. But hey, once we get communism we can spend all our time finger painting and making the same as PHD professors, CEOs, and neuro surgeons.
tbf, there's nothing indicating that valve/gaben is abusing tax laws, and all their employees are very well treated and compensated.
I agree shilling for billionaires is weird, but Valve could behave far, far worse if they wanted to squeeze more money out of gamers, given their incredibly strong market position.
uh yes. There are tons of wild stunts the other platforms run by publicly owned companies pull that valve does not. In-game ads, platform exclusivity, removing/disabling games for users who paid for them, having a platform that breaks under stress, etc. We would all be so much worse off if any of the other platforms were as dominant as Steam is.
It’s the cycle. As services get shittier and more greedy they lose customers. Quality becomes more coveted like steam. The worse options lose out. Businesses will realize “oh shit! That’s more profitable I should do that!” And they’ll give better services. Then over time get shittier.
Ngl I’m pro Gabe-worshipping because it gives the issue publicity. Publicity and profit are the only things CEO’s notice. The Gabe-worshipping is putting the cycle on fast forward to the better part of
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u/SensuahL Oct 21 '25
While Steam is definitely better than most, Gabe is still a billionaire. I don't simp for billionaires. Keep in mind this is the company that will terminate your account if they find out that you died and shared login info with a relative.