It's funny that it makes sense in every involved, game studios no longer need to pay for physical assets and go through a middle man retailer so get at least 70% return per sale and consumers get the game more conveniently.
The issue is their own reputation and actions have dashed those arguments for it. They can't be TRUSTED with a digital only model because of shit like this.
You know who can? Steam. And that's why they make SO MUCH money. It's also why we need to golden throne Gabe so Steam doesn't fall to incompetence like the rest in comparison.
For now. Steam's workers are very communistic and it's a matter of time before it falls too. GOG might be the future, or perhaps a new one that doesn't exist yet.
It's going to have to be some kind of new competitor,
How about an old competitor and not just an old one, but possibly the oldest competitor? I am of course referring to piracy. This is the real reason these companies are so hellbent on turning every release into live service slop. So they can prevent people from easily bypassing their faggotry.
GoG offers installation executables that I can save to my own physical media which they cannot retroactively take away, so as long as that's still on the table it retains value as a digital marketplace.
The biggest DRM platform currently in existence, arguably responsible for popularizing digital distribution and consequently all but ending the ability to actually own games on PC?
I mean, Steam is certainly one of the lesser evils out there, but I can never understand how they are brought up in a positive light in conversations about games preservation.
Mostly because they're one of the oldest and really the first platform for this type of business and haven't massively fucked up like the rest.
It's like having a slightly above average eldest child and the rest being fuck ups, you give praise to the eldest only to diss the others saying why couldn't they not fuck up when they had an example before them.
So about games 'going digital' from now on...
It's funny that it makes sense in every involved, game studios no longer need to pay for physical assets and go through a middle man retailer so get at least 70% return per sale and consumers get the game more conveniently.
The issue is their own reputation and actions have dashed those arguments for it. They can't be TRUSTED with a digital only model because of shit like this.
You know who can? Steam. And that's why they make SO MUCH money. It's also why we need to golden throne Gabe so Steam doesn't fall to incompetence like the rest in comparison.
For now. Steam's workers are very communistic and it's a matter of time before it falls too. GOG might be the future, or perhaps a new one that doesn't exist yet.
GoG is owned by CD Projekt which already went full ESG.
How about an old competitor and not just an old one, but possibly the oldest competitor? I am of course referring to piracy. This is the real reason these companies are so hellbent on turning every release into live service slop. So they can prevent people from easily bypassing their faggotry.
Once a market leader is established, it's very difficult to dethrone them. They have all the inertia.
Stuff like the colossal mistakes MySpace did, for example, happen maybe three or four times in a generation.
GoG offers installation executables that I can save to my own physical media which they cannot retroactively take away, so as long as that's still on the table it retains value as a digital marketplace.
Yeah. Once gabe dies/retires.. you know the commie stuff will escalate.
Steam? Nah... FitGirl, Dodi and ElAmigos are the true role models :)
Would we even notice the golden throne in Bellevue?
Now I'm thinking about the base in Saddam Hussein's mansion...
The biggest DRM platform currently in existence, arguably responsible for popularizing digital distribution and consequently all but ending the ability to actually own games on PC?
I mean, Steam is certainly one of the lesser evils out there, but I can never understand how they are brought up in a positive light in conversations about games preservation.
Mostly because they're one of the oldest and really the first platform for this type of business and haven't massively fucked up like the rest.
It's like having a slightly above average eldest child and the rest being fuck ups, you give praise to the eldest only to diss the others saying why couldn't they not fuck up when they had an example before them.
What's the actual solution?
Total commie death.
I need that on a tshirt.
I think that's available ironically in Japan.
If he has statues you can collect, they probably have posters and shirts of him in his famous pose.