Good, I guess. I'd love to see Steam crash and burn but it doesn't solve the problem. I've gone back to PC-first gaming for the first time in a decade, and far and away my least favorite thing about it is fucking everything needing it's own launcher, account, etc.
Everyone always mentions that, but at the moment I play with family and friends a lot and want the online stuff to work. That's not to say I usually don't legitimately obtain single player stuff too. I pirated a lot of stuff when I was a teenager, but I've done pretty well for myself as an adult and just don't feel like I should at times. I don't buy woke stuff anyway because I don't want to play it.
The dev stood up to leftists, so they review bombed his game. This is actual review bombing since it’s 100% the result of his personal politics and has nothing to do with the actual game content. I’m assuming that increasingly woke Valve is doing fuck all to help him.
Oh gab is a gigantic lefty retard, but he doesn’t seem interested in turning steam into an overtly political platform. I imagine the vultures will quickly move to remedy this when he’s gone.
The whole Epic vs Steam thing was part of what ran me away from normie gaming forums way back before I even paid attention to game politics. I mean I didn't care for the Epic business practices but you were not allowed to criticize Steam at all it seemed like. There were so many people around that just got back from a steamfag orgy with a fresh case of newellpox. Why do they like Steam so much? I don't even like it's user interface most of the time.
With epic, it’s Tim Sweeney moaning about it being a monopoly (it’s not, ea had origin, ubisoft with uplay, activision blizzard the blizzard launcher, gog, etc). Then moaning about the steam 30% cut, which had been the standard cut for most markets whether online or brick and mortar. Then epics policy of paying for exclusivity for their store. Actually strong arming people to their store and targeting devs who had previously announced a steam release. All for the experience of EGS to be sub standard to all competitors, it took them years for a shopping cart to be added, despite having one for their engine marketplace in the same launcher. Anti user reviews (ironically that would prevent this review bombing, but they were pro putting mainstream reviews). Scanning your steam friends list without your permission. All in all it all read as a mega corp moaning they weren’t getting the largest cut, forcing users to buy from them, and claiming they did this for the good of the consumer, all while having less features than steam including a ton I did not list as an example. The 40% Tencent ownership is just icing on the anti epic cake.
I went a poked around briefly, and it seems to be related to people reviewbombing it because the dev snuck some conservative views in the patch notes.
Here's an example negative review:
Quote from the OFFICIAL PATCHNOTES "v1.3.18 BETA":
"TAKE OFF THE ♥♥♥♥ MASKS - Next time you're at the grocery store, try showing a woman your face.
Be confident, unafraid of the LIES -- you might get a girlfriend.
Women like confidence. Women don't like dudes who cover their faces in fear.
What are you afraid of? Getting laid? Grow up."
...this was written by the dev in the patch notes.
Most of the review bombs are by regressive leftists who are bashing him for his political views. They are also claiming he pulled a DLC and split it up though there is barely any evidence for and against those claims though.
They claim he took content out of the game to resell it as dlc. Reality he tested features in the beta branch for said dlc and it was known that it was going to be dlc. This all stems from him making fun of face masks in a patch notes months ago. Some people have less than 30 minutes of playtime on their account.
He ultimately brought this on himself by using his official product platform to act completely obnoxious. He posted a rant about not wearing masks in one of the game's patch notes a few months back. That's not what those are for. It isn't something I tolerate any more than I tolerate leftists forcing their nonsense into video games.
He posted it in patch notes that normally only 3 people would have read anyway because this is an aging indie game. It only gained traction because a leftist saw it and posted it to r/steam and r/pcgaming.
Look, normally I'd agree with you that politics shouldn't be involved with games. But when leftists do it all the time and push their ideology in every single hobbyist space on the internet - it's only reasonable to fight fire with fire.
It's especially cool because this guy isn't the norm.
"But leftists do it too!" isn't going to cut it. It's hard to say we're better than them when you have people on the Right acting like children. Not bending the knee, or giving the left the finger, is one thing. This is another thing entirely.
Good, I guess. I'd love to see Steam crash and burn but it doesn't solve the problem. I've gone back to PC-first gaming for the first time in a decade, and far and away my least favorite thing about it is fucking everything needing it's own launcher, account, etc.
not if you're downloading free cracked software ;)
Everyone always mentions that, but at the moment I play with family and friends a lot and want the online stuff to work. That's not to say I usually don't legitimately obtain single player stuff too. I pirated a lot of stuff when I was a teenager, but I've done pretty well for myself as an adult and just don't feel like I should at times. I don't buy woke stuff anyway because I don't want to play it.
The dev stood up to leftists, so they review bombed his game. This is actual review bombing since it’s 100% the result of his personal politics and has nothing to do with the actual game content. I’m assuming that increasingly woke Valve is doing fuck all to help him.
I really bam dreading the day Gaben dies.
Gaben continues to donate to the DNC and the creator of the regressive leftist propaganda webcomic questionable content.
Oh gab is a gigantic lefty retard, but he doesn’t seem interested in turning steam into an overtly political platform. I imagine the vultures will quickly move to remedy this when he’s gone.
The whole Epic vs Steam thing was part of what ran me away from normie gaming forums way back before I even paid attention to game politics. I mean I didn't care for the Epic business practices but you were not allowed to criticize Steam at all it seemed like. There were so many people around that just got back from a steamfag orgy with a fresh case of newellpox. Why do they like Steam so much? I don't even like it's user interface most of the time.
brand loyalty is retarded but there are a lot of retards out there
Gaben has killed his legitimate brand loyalty and is currently coasting by on retards and being a monopoly.
Mostly because other storefronts are embarrassingly terrible in terms of basic functionality, and there’s really no excuse for it.
With epic, it’s Tim Sweeney moaning about it being a monopoly (it’s not, ea had origin, ubisoft with uplay, activision blizzard the blizzard launcher, gog, etc). Then moaning about the steam 30% cut, which had been the standard cut for most markets whether online or brick and mortar. Then epics policy of paying for exclusivity for their store. Actually strong arming people to their store and targeting devs who had previously announced a steam release. All for the experience of EGS to be sub standard to all competitors, it took them years for a shopping cart to be added, despite having one for their engine marketplace in the same launcher. Anti user reviews (ironically that would prevent this review bombing, but they were pro putting mainstream reviews). Scanning your steam friends list without your permission. All in all it all read as a mega corp moaning they weren’t getting the largest cut, forcing users to buy from them, and claiming they did this for the good of the consumer, all while having less features than steam including a ton I did not list as an example. The 40% Tencent ownership is just icing on the anti epic cake.
I went a poked around briefly, and it seems to be related to people reviewbombing it because the dev snuck some conservative views in the patch notes.
Here's an example negative review:
Based
Most of the review bombs are by regressive leftists who are bashing him for his political views. They are also claiming he pulled a DLC and split it up though there is barely any evidence for and against those claims though.
They claim he took content out of the game to resell it as dlc. Reality he tested features in the beta branch for said dlc and it was known that it was going to be dlc. This all stems from him making fun of face masks in a patch notes months ago. Some people have less than 30 minutes of playtime on their account.
shrug
He ultimately brought this on himself by using his official product platform to act completely obnoxious. He posted a rant about not wearing masks in one of the game's patch notes a few months back. That's not what those are for. It isn't something I tolerate any more than I tolerate leftists forcing their nonsense into video games.
He posted it in patch notes that normally only 3 people would have read anyway because this is an aging indie game. It only gained traction because a leftist saw it and posted it to r/steam and r/pcgaming.
Look, normally I'd agree with you that politics shouldn't be involved with games. But when leftists do it all the time and push their ideology in every single hobbyist space on the internet - it's only reasonable to fight fire with fire.
It's especially cool because this guy isn't the norm.
"But leftists do it too!" isn't going to cut it. It's hard to say we're better than them when you have people on the Right acting like children. Not bending the knee, or giving the left the finger, is one thing. This is another thing entirely.
I'd never tie my political opinions to my work, simply because of shit like this.
Looks like a decent game but I don't have time for a time sink sim.
He has been getting bombarded with fake reviews for months.