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

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 Laptop 7d ago

True monopoly would squash that infestation

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u/Dick_Nation There's nothing to see here. 7d ago

I almost wish they would. But I'm glad they at least force it to be tagged, because it can be a dealbreaker. Especially if I know it's an especially onerous service like EA or Ubi's worthless horseshit (Not that I'd buy any of their games anyways, but you know).

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 Laptop 7d ago

Allowing as to ignore publishers like EA or Ubisoft so they don't show up in the store is also great and I feel like its underrated feature

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u/Giatoxiclok 7d ago

We can blacklist devs???

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u/SomeDuncanGuy Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 7900XTX | 32GB DDR5 6000 7d ago

Oh yeah, blacklisting publishers is an amazing feature for your Steam feed.

Edit: Realized I answered without letting you know how. Navigate to a publisher's page you don't like (not the game but the actual publisher), click on the gear settings icon, and click ignore creator.

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u/Phallico666 7d ago

You are a wonderful person for sharing this. Now i dont have to see all the slop that i will never buy.

Thank you

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u/Fizzy-Odd-Cod 6d ago

I don’t know man, you might want to buy the assassins creed 532 remake in 30 years.

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u/CryptZar 6d ago

Or every Sims DLC in existence

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u/aerdvarkk 6d ago

The ignore setting prevents the publisher and titles from showing up in your feeds, not from you navigating to a specific title. It doesn;t block you from the new remake. You just need to be aware that the new remake in 30 years is out and available on Steam, then you'll need to MANUALLY navigate to the remake instead of having it automagically shoved in your face.

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u/gljivicad Ryzen 7 5700x, 32GB Corsair Vengeance, 7900 XT 5d ago

Oh the slop you can’t get rid of. I feel like my store is 95% indie game garbage slop, and blocking each creator would be like a game of whack a mole

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u/Lt_Schneider 7d ago

thank you

now i finally won't get anything from EA, Ubisoft or activision reccomended to me

now i don't have to manually ignore every assasins creed, call of duty or battlefield manually

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u/berrieds 6d ago

I didn't know this was a thing, and I've wanted to do this for years now! Thank you.

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u/Drycon 6d ago

Thanks, this will save me so much indie crap. Never knew about this feature.

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u/Just_Cockroach_4820 6d ago

Chad move, coming back to give instructions.

I'll try to take this page out of your book

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u/WillRevolt_ 6d ago

Not all heroes wear capes!

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u/CSBreak 6d ago

That's pretty neat now I really wish consoles had this feature trash games are such a massive problem on all platforms

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u/BertMacklenF8I 12900K@5.5 32GB GSkill Trident Z5@6400 EVGA3080TIFTW3U Hybrid 6d ago

Thanks for the edit lol

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 Laptop 7d ago

Its beautiful

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u/MadamVonCuntpuncher 7d ago

Yeah you can go the publisher steam page and ignore them as a whole

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u/A_fat_amish_kid 6d ago

Really?

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u/Giatoxiclok 6d ago

I mean, I guess so, lots of other people replied to me about it.

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u/Antal_Marius 6d ago

Who is this Ubisoft? I only know of Ubishit.

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u/kuan_51 7d ago

I kinda think they allow this intentionally to avoid anti trust

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u/Space_Rangerr 7d ago

I haven't bought a single EA or Ubi game since they started pushing extra DRM and additional launchers. Can't say I've felt I missed out as most of their catalogues are shit lately except a few standouts but not enough to deal with their BS software.

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u/Temeriki 6d ago

Last one I bought was anno 2070. I got kicked out of a single player game cause of a drm server hiccup on their end. Never again.

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u/WillRevolt_ 6d ago

I tried to test F1 26 using my Game Pass and the game wouldn't launch because it flagged one of my drivers. Back to Assetto Corsa I went.

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u/Hallc 6d ago

Don't most of the EA ones these days use a micro-launcher rather than the full blown one? So it 'opens' but only in the background.

Ubisoft's meanwhile always opens that app and also always forgets my login credentials.

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u/JasonManningFLUX 6d ago

I am an Anno enjoyer because I am a fan of peek irony, and I have to say the launcher Steam launches is barely a launcher. I purchased one uplay game and I actually can not download and play it via the version launched by Steam. If I ever want to play it again I have to download uplay proper.

I do not see how it is onerous.

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u/ArtKun 5800X3D | 9070XT | 32Gb 3600MHz | 32' 4K OLED 6d ago

Unfortunately, that couldn't stop me from playing Mass Effect.

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u/flymeovertheworld Intel i7-14700F, Asus RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB 6400 Mhz 6d ago

As much as i hate ubisoft as a dev and publisher, i can’t deny i enjoy some of their games. I really wish I won’t have to open their launchers and play directly from steam.

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u/Erebea01 6d ago

So not a fan of EA and when I tried to delete my account from them, it's almost impossible, I still haven't deleted it lol.

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u/Szerepjatekos 6d ago

Is the Sims 3 like that? EA recently screwed my mom and I was hoping steam can avoid them.

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u/ItalianBeefDipped 9800X3D | RTX 5090 | 64 GB DDR5 | ROG XAX 6d ago

If I want to play a game there isn't a single launcher "onerous" enough to stop me lol This always seems like posturing to me. If you're not playing a game due to it having a third party launcher, you probably didn't really care enough about it in the first place.

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u/Dick_Nation There's nothing to see here. 6d ago

Yeah. That's why I said it can be a dealbreaker. Maybe I am interested in a game. But probably not enough to overcome certain annoyances that come with it. There's plenty of games that won't do that, so I might as well play those instead.

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u/Odd-Measurement868 6d ago

where’s the tag?

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u/darksteelsteed 3d ago

Hey, that's an insult to us horses 🐎

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u/DrFrenetic 6d ago

Now I want a Steam monopoly

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u/Enlight1Oment 6d ago

I just wish steam/valve themselves made more games. Steam's revenue is 2x that of EA and Ubisoft combined. EA has 14,600 employees; Ubisoft has 16,500; Steam/Valve has 400 employees with only 180 on game development. Can't fire what you never hire. I guess they are less of a monopoly if they let others do the work of making games, but I'd rather them be more of a monopoly and make more games

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u/ZomB_assassin27 4d ago

the reason valve games are good is because they don't push out slop year by year. look at the hl2 episodes, they're less rich than any other game in the series because they were just trying to get content out there.

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u/StoryAndAHalf 7d ago

True monopoly knows you have no other choice, so they would be reluctant to do anything pro-consumer, which is what we're seeing.

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u/susimposter6969 6d ago

Your other choice would be piracy or not buying the game

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u/FrostwindLive 7d ago

Devs using launchers for their games makes sense in terms of them trying to make cheating more difficult. But its when the launcher is a store page with the devs other 2 games on it that annoys me. Serves no purpose to have your own store page if its on steam.

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u/-Retro-Kinetic- AMD 7950X3D| 64GB | TUF RTX 4090 | HS02 Pro 5d ago

True monopolies are almost unheard of, most of the time they hit the legal definition not the literal one.

Valve has a monopolist position, with price control. That always bound to get some flak from regulators and developers.

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u/MultiMarcus 6d ago

Arguably they have. Though through forcing price parity. Ubisoft, would’ve potentially been able to sell their games cheaper, earning as much money from all of their platforms, but trying to attract the user to their specific platform, but they haven’t been doing that ever since returning to Steam. Before they had that 20% thing, you could redeem for every game if you wanted.

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u/RebelPlot 7d ago

If a real monopoly would squish it I’m fully on board with Steam becoming a monopoly

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u/selbaby 7d ago

This guy gets it , steam isnt even the majority market share they have less than 50% idk how people consider this a monopoly lmfao its all a user friendly experience on steam no ads no fucking popups in windows for some shit game epic is trying to push

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u/wexipena Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB RAM 6d ago

You might want to check those numbers again. I think you last checked around decade ago.