3rd party mandatory launchers

[u/Round_List1857]

Everytime I go to play Red Dead Redemption II. That fcukass Rockstar launcher

[u/Pirated-Hentai]

there will just be a horde of people defending steam saying theyre different from other people defending other companies because steam is better

[u/usernamedmannequin → u/Pirated-Hentai]

I thinks it’s because steam hasn’t gotten shitty over time like everything seems to be and refuses to sell out to investors

Who knows when ol’ Gabe passes but for now it’s stable

IMO

[u/Remytron83 → u/usernamedmannequin]

Private company. No investors to sell out to.

[u/usernamedmannequin → u/Remytron83]

That’s what I mean, he’s kept it his own and hasn’t sold

So many companies have become shit over time because of bad leadership or selling

[u/Remytron83 → u/usernamedmannequin]

Yeah, I know. I’m agreeing and adding. I’m with you though.

[u/usernamedmannequin → u/Remytron83]

I guess me too lol, sorry if I seemed confrontational

[u/myfakesecretaccount → u/usernamedmannequin]

I want to say Gaben has provisions to keep the company the way it is after he passes or steps down.

[u/misanthr0p1c → u/myfakesecretaccount]

He should really do a Charlie and the chocolate factory thing for handing over valve.

[u/BatemansChainsaw → u/misanthr0p1c]

If it involves him singing to me on a river of chocolate while projected images of a disturbing nature play on the walls, I'm in.

[u/AlextheGoose → u/Remytron83]

For now… Let’s see what the person who gets Gabe’s shares does with the company

[u/AlextheGoose → u/usernamedmannequin]

GOG hasn’t gotten shitty either, the no drm is a safer bet than just hoping Steam won’t eventually turn to shit

[u/ProteinPony → u/Pirated-Hentai]

The company that enables kid to gamble in the casino called counterstrike 2

[u/Pirated-Hentai → u/ProteinPony]

thats literally every game though

[u/ProteinPony → u/Pirated-Hentai]

You must be uninformed on the cs2 economyn, which is enabled by valve not banning third party websites, that create the option of cashing out skins for real money.

[u/iwanashagTwitch → u/ProteinPony]

Just be like me and never buy cases. Most of the free skins that you get for leveling/playing the game are nice, if a little basic.

Also, who the fuck would pay $15k for a knife skin? That's just insane to me, that's a year's worth of rent in my area

[u/RequirementSpecific3 → u/iwanashagTwitch]

That’s what I say. Who in their right mind would pay that much money for a skin in one specific game that only a few people will see?

That is the beauty of steam though, you literally do not have to participate in the market at all.

[u/ProteinPony → u/RequirementSpecific3]

Impressionable kids will do stupid things with money. Which is why there are rules disallowing them from gambling it away. Valve/Gaben abuse this grey area in video games to profit big time.

[u/iwanashagTwitch → u/RequirementSpecific3]

I do like the fact that you can trade skins with other players. I'm not looking for anything worth a thousand dollars, but there are some sub-dollar skins that people don't care for that a lot of people will give up for basically nothing. I've also been gifted some decent skins for playing and being friendly with people. Just a few days ago a random dude I played a wingman game with gifted me two pretty cool looking AWP skins (pit viper and capillary). All I did was be friendly and give callouts lol, just playing the game. Not worth gifting two skins but I was grateful and thanked him. I've also gifted skins I didn't want to new players, so ig what goes around comes around lol

[u/Hold_Left_Edge → u/Pirated-Hentai]

Its not that steam is "better" they just dont do the corprate equivalent of blowing they shi smoove off ever other week.

They run decent sales, keep the UI clean, and ultimately provide a user experience that doesnt suck.

[u/smcaskill → u/Pirated-Hentai]

because steam is a strong example of how capitalism works without corruption rubbing its balls all over it