invest in open ecosystem
maintain and develop platform for user
70/30 cut to offer thing on market
run gambling system
“nothing”
Turns out if you don’t have shareholders to report to, you can focus on making things better for consumers rather than squeezing every last penny out of them.
Right? Damn. That’s why private companies are better
Whooaahhhhhhhhh there, bucko, let’s slow the fuck down there. There are PLENTY of terrible private companies out there! OpenAI, Anthropic, Pulte, and Kiewit come to mind.
That sounds like most of the terrible private companies are just companies that want to go public.
Yeah just squeezing every penny from developers instead.
You don’t afford a fleet of yachts without stealing something from someone.
Barely related whataboutism, but okay.
‘doesn’t make there products intentionally shit’ and ‘competition shoots themzelfs in the head’. I think I know why they are winning the race
you see, legally, the completion must shoot itself in the foot.
The moment you have shareholders it is the legal obligation to pursue unlimited growth, sacrificing everything to reach the quarterly quota. leading to enshitification.
We keep taking like these are individual leadership choices, but they aren’t. It is the legal duty of EA, Sonic, Microsoft… to sacrifice long term sustainability for a quick buck.
Kleptocracy in motion. That’s what it is.
Meme with the guy that helped removing discs for video games on PC in the context of Sony saying they’re going to phase out games on discs.
Yup, Gabe did it first. DRM is not your friend
Steam does not force you to only buy games from Steam, even on hardware they sold.
You can’t stop selling physical copies if you never sold physical copies in the first place
Valve did sell physical copies for quite some time you know
Oh you’re right the first game I ever bought was Portal lmao they did stop selling physical copies
> dies > PC gaming gets enshittified > no downloads, only streaming from xAI servers > old games get remade with AI slopIt’s okay I can always play Fallout: New Vegas for a 4th time or Skyrim for an 8th time.
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Who said it’s my favorite game? I can’t play No Man’s Sky for a 2nd time because I never stopped playing it from the night it released!
Not anymore, you will get the AI sloppified versions only, and be lucky if it won’t get “dewoked” by the AI too.
what
I already have Fallout NV lol
You forgot “AI slop dota 2/CS cosmetics”
This is peak Gaben simp meme. Steam were the pioneers of “you don’t own the game, you just own a licence to play it” model which has caused massive amounts of enshittification of the gaming industry. Not to mention all the other bullshit they’ve pushed over the years.
But valve always gets a pass because dumbass games think “lord Gaben” is their best friend because he sells other peoples games for 90% off some times.
Idk man. I remember someone recommending spec ops: the line a few weeks ago, but said it’s not available on steam any more. I bought it eons ago and had no problem besides controls getting it on my deck.
Have you finished it yet? It’s best played through fairly quickly so you can remember different parts. There are a couple of frustrating encounters, but the story is top notch.
Fuck me! No I got like 2 hours in a while back but my god damned AuDHD had me focus on something else.
Not a particularly bad place to stop, I got a few hours in, stopped, then when I picked it back up I realised I’d basically stopped right before the story kicks in and was hooked for the rest.
I think I stopped right after the white phosphorus scene. Maybe it was emotionally fucking with me is why I dropped it. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’ll prolly pick it up after my family leaves town.
Yeah, that’s right when the story really gets going. Remember that scene and binge from there, and I’m sure you’re gonna appreciate what the game is about.
Thanks dude.
I hear this more frequently nowadays, but it really is kind of misplacing the blame for this change. Steam went for this model precisely because many of the bigger game companies to this day refuse to sell their games as anything but a heavily restricted license. And Steam as a storefront does have to cater to them in that regard, especially back then. Even physical disks as others pointed out were technically not something you owned, but rather that resale and such was not enforced or enforceable. (You would definitely get some stern letters if you started copying and selling those games at larger scale, even if you ‘owned’ the original copy).
People do still sell DRM free games on Steam that you can copy and distribute to essentially your hearts extent without Steam ever getting involved. The license you have is for Steam to provide you the download service so you can get your digital copy (and a bit more). If you care about people owning games, then it’s up to you to support and buy from the kinds of companies that don’t provide you a license or (more likely) where the license is unrestricted enough to fit your description of ownership. The middleman like Steam you buy it from shouldn’t matter if they don’t exert undue control beyond that. And at least being on PC if you really must buy something with DRM you have options to remove it.
Games that have been delisted are still available for download as long as your account has a license for the game. That’s at least better than Sony, since they have attempted revoking people’s licenses on at least two separate occasions.
No shareholders to demand unlimited growth and constant enshitification.
I will never understand simping so hard over a human you’ve never met.
It’s turned into “fast fashion;” it’s gross.
Oh yes the greatly priced gabecube
Yesh if you ignore the massive slap that is the steam machine.
Valve got so good at doing nothing for a decade they forgot how to do things again lol.
The Steam machine would’ve been amazing if it was affordable. You can hardly blame Valve for the AI bubble and current RAM pricing though.
Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are getting sued, as it turns out that not all RAM price increases were caused by AI. They just used AI as an excuse to increase their prices.
My gripe would be the trackers steam uses. I’m sick of that.
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