Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'
Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'
The concept of a "digital license" isn't new, but there's no pretending you didn't know about it anymore.
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Ya well if it's such a fucking low bar, it's probably because they aren't holding it up which is my point.
They do the absolute minimum, yet receive mountains of praise. Call me when he brings down the cut to something reasonable like 5% or just let's dev choose what price they sell their games for on other platforms ffs.
Indie companies are closing left and right, these mega stores and their soft monopoly is having a net negative impact on the industry.
Stop defending billionaires. If steam was fair, he wouldn't be able to afford a billion dollars worth of fancy boats.
Your argument was that Steam is identical to Microsoft and Nintendo, and that Gabe is colluding with them. Stop moving the goalposts.
Okay, so to be clear, I'm saying they don't have enough difference between them when it comes to being a gross monopolistic company to warrant the praise.
All four of them suck, I'm saying they are all in the same group of shifty companies that take advantage of the gaming industry and it's clients (us).
So just a boring, generic anti-capitalist take that deliberately avoids any nuance for the sake of feeling smug.
Gee, why would anyone downvote that!
There's not enough nuance to justify drinking Gabens sweat.
Why is he the only billionaire that gets his own little simp squad. Can you imagine going into a thread about how Elon Musk is being a dick and 90% of the comments are praising him?
Amazon is super convenient, yet people still can understand the nuance of it and how it's harming small businesses, how the government should probably do something and deal with the dragon at its head that's hoarding all that wealth.
Where's your nuance? Other than "I like steam and I use it, so it can do no wrong".
The nuance is here in this thread, in multiple comments that have clearly demonstrated that you have no idea what you're talking about.
But you're too busy backpedaling and jerking off about how much you hate billionaires to actually engage with any of those points. Or more likely, you know you're too ignorant to respond to them.
They charge 30% because they have a soft monopoly, it's basically robbery and it is affecting the indie scene and the quality and amount of games we receive.
Gaben has 6 mega yatchs and a number of submarines. The yatchs alone are worth around 1 billion and cost an estimated 75 to 100 million per year just to maintain.
This is from my first post, I've repeated myself 4 times now (over two threads because you have answered mutiple different comments). I won't be answering anymore of your comments, all you are spitting in my face is childish rhetoric.
Oh look, another boring block of text so you can avoid replying to the commentor who proved you're either dumb or just lying.
We get it, your point can be dumbed down to a mouth-breathing "capitalism bad".
And, to be clear, Capitalism is bad. I'm on board. But riding Gaben's dick, or the dick of any boring dystopian billionaire instead of the people actively fighting to maintain the system is just grossly missing the point
Not all evils are equal, and any perceived slight by Steam is honestly smoke for the thousands of disgustingly rich venture capitalists constantly abusing the system that exists and lobbying the shit out of any attempt to fix it. I don't blame Gaben for owning more yacht's than anyone needs, because, at the end of the day, he's providing a quality service through an unfair system. He's not the one fighting to provide shittier and shittier systems, demanding fatter and fatter paychecks and encouraging us to blame each other for the state of the world while he runs off with the largest slice of the cake.
Should he have the wealth he has access to? Fuck no. But, again, the dishonest and disgustingly simplified argument that homie is making is only idiofying the cause. Target the problems, not the lucky guys who are providing halfway reasonable services through our broken-ass system.
Well said.
It's not that what he's saying is out-and-out wrong -- it's just not useful or interesting in the context of the discussion.
Its kind of a shame that you respond to him instead of me, you are literally circle jerking each other.
Homie over her is just tired of seeing simps defend this pos billionaire and his company. The fact is the government will never act if this is the kind of vibe they're getting from the community. Bootlickers are holding us back.
He is not just part of the unfair system, he is 1/4 of it. You make it sound like poor old gaben is a victim here and was forced to participate in collusion and robbing a whole industry blind.
I respond to people when they say something worth responding to. You think my post makes Gaben sound like a victim. Either your reading comprehension has completely failed and you aren't capable of having a real conversation, or my first comment about being far more interested in saying controversial shit than thinking things through was spot on, and you're arguing in bad faith and/or to pleasure your ego. Since it's not my job to educate you, nor satisfy you, even giving you this much recognition is a compliment. Have a good one.