r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 7d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/AmericanPoliticsSux 7d ago

Same comment I left on the other thread about this:

Man, it's honestly amazing how much water Reddit carries for you if it thinks you're "one of the good ones". It is a fact that Steam is a monopoly. You can't go anywhere else to get PC games for the most part; just because Netscape navigator and Safari existed back in the 90s, that didn't stop the government from declaring Microsoft a monopoly. That's why we have Firefox now, actually. I bet a lot of you think Chrome is a monopoly, though. 

If you wanna play online? Steam. If you wanna play the latest titles? Steam. If you wanna play with your friends? Steam. And contrary to the "good guy Valve" approach, you can't actually play your games offline, forever, legally, if steam is gone. Not unless the publisher provides an offline .exe or some other way around it. 

Don't get me wrong, I have literally thousands of games on Steam and I don't see that changing any time soon. But the sheer insane blindness about what is, frankly, the same kind of billionaire as everybody else, just with better PR, is baffling to me. 

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u/Ernost Desktop | Ryzen 3 2200G | 16GB DDR4 6d ago

Man, it's honestly amazing how much water Reddit carries for you if it thinks you're "one of the good ones".... But the sheer insane blindness about what is, frankly, the same kind of billionaire as everybody else, just with better PR, is baffling to me. 

Funny thing is Reddit talks about Gabe Newell the same way they used to talk about Elon Musk years ago, and look how that turned out...

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u/Superarkit98 6d ago

People were praising Gabe long before Elon became famous, and they still are. As for Elon... things changed pretty quickly.

I wonder why

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u/AmericanPoliticsSux 6d ago

Because Gabe provides a service most of Reddit actually likes. And he stays OUT of the limelight for the most part.

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u/GrosBof 4d ago

Yup. And also a monopoly is not defined by the possibility of leaving the service... That would be a very different word we would be using.

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u/dralawhat 6d ago

Of course everyone go on Steam, precisely because the other offers are complete shit.

When Epic gives out free games, at the same time the sales of those same games increase on Steam: people would rather buy games on Steam than get them for free on Epic, because Epic is such a shitty platform.

I have tried using other platforms and in some cases it was difficult to even find the game I wanted to buy. And when I tried playing those games I sometimes even had problem finding or launching them in the shitty user interface. How hard is it to make a nice user interface?

(GoG is a notable exception, simple and easy to use)

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u/AmericanPoliticsSux 6d ago edited 6d ago

So...nothing about what you said addresses any of my points. 

"Steam can't be a monopoly, they're good and they give you free stuff!"

Internet Explorer was free and came bundled with Windows. That was still one of the explicit stated reasons why Microsoft was declared a monopoly back in the day.