The last domestic revolution they had ended in Cromwell burning a bunch of Catholic churches down and undoing the edict of expulsion. So I wouldn't hold my breath on them putting the right people in power even if they do wake up.
Valve helped push and create the idea of microtransactions in the form of hats. Now we have 1000$ knife skins.
No one understands but valves trust factor is literally the definition of pay 2 win. As long as you keep spending money, the quality of your matches will not suffer.
I could also rant a bit about counter strike, a game I played since 1998 when the beta first came out. Trust factor is again inherently flawed, its pay to win, they dont care bout the cheating problem thinking they can just punish legit players with a low priority cheating pool.
They have removed all content from the game, and after 3 years are you people going to admit thats its just never coming back. Keep hoping for cache, im still wondering what the fuck happened to cs_assault or cs_militia. I quit playing cs last in mid of december, feels good. 40% win rate across something like 1300 fucking games is enough for me. Meanwhile me and my silver teammates are getting matched with legendary eagles and master guardians. Or its just people straight up looking through walls, I rewatch alot of my demos. I tried premier the first season, but gave up because of the cheaters. Multiple confirmed gamed/vac bans on my alt which ranked in at 2000 premier, im still fucking laughing.
https://csstats.gg/player/76561197974771016 (you will have to login with your steam account or make a account if you really wanna see. Really strange when your winrate is as high as your headshot percentage.)
I had about 10,000 hours in dota 2, I quit playing around 2019 when valve decided it would be funny to match me with spanish speaking players, every game. And then they thought it would be funny to punish people for other people being retarded in the form of a "communication and behavior score" that made sure i would never play again. Nothing like being reported and told you havent bought wards when you literally did nothing but support and buy wards the entire FUCKING GAME.
Lets talk about the gambling mechanics that valve uses to hook young players and coupled with trust factor is used to rig games with generative ai, but thats ok, at least its not art.
I could talk also about my personal experience with being cyber stalked, doxed, threatened, over a fucking left 4 dead game because I whooped some loser by one fucking point.
That happened in fucking 2009, this guy is still fucking at it.
Im wondering if they have a personal relationship with valve. When attempting to get support, for some reason chet falisk when he still worked there in 2009, tried to gaslight me and tell me it was my router doing it and when I lost it, I was banned from l4d2 forums for "disrespect", although for some reason killahinstinct that asshole unbanned me before they were forced off the volunteer moderator team. Something valve has done a few times before. Get volunteers to translate your games, moderate your forums, and then ditch them the moment you make billions and use ai to handle all your admin functions.
The forums are not moderated by humans, which means your basically getting banned if x reported in y amount of time.
I could go fucking, on and on.
And yet you guys think gabe is some kinda of miracle messiah, the mans a fucking shark and I wouldnt put it past them to be eating babies out there on international waters.
You guys praise him for piracy, that fucker banned one of my steam accounts for using a hl2 key that 20,000 other people used and didnt even work, because I was a stupid kid and put it in.
Game developer Valve is reporting that it has banned more than 20,000 accounts from its after detecting attempts to register illegally obtained copies of its hit PC game "Half Life 2."
A Valve representative posting at the company's user forums site said the accounts were scrapped because users either tried to register the game with a pirated CD activation key or open an account with a stolen credit card.
The entire platform has a bot problem.
There are bots in the forums telling people that no one is cheating.
I researched steam protocols to create a api for AI bot that login into accounts, detecting the email code that was sent, and then talks with other players. This bot talks with other players, saying "There are no cheaters at CS2", "VAC is a built in feature that is well embedded within the game code", etc.
There are bots on the workshop downvoting legit authors and upvoting scam/spam content. This is why I stopped using valve hammer after 20 years. Anything you make is never going to be seen unless it goes viral.
Bans are another thing, touching on the AI system. People have figured out if you report someone so many times in a short time period you can trigger a temp ban. They will often even use nonsense like "encouraging violence" and when you ask support to clarify, they just simply wont, thats because they are ai lmao. Im just a retard dying from parthyroidism, prolly from being poisoned at work, i dont have to waste my time arguing or clarifying myself anymore. Support is legally required to fucking respond though!
If you can trigger so many temp bans in one forum in a time frame I tihnk its a month or something, you can get someone perma banned. There are entire groups composed of sad and angry individuals who game this and ban people they do not like for whatever reason. Ive even seen people in the warframe discussions bragging about how they do this all the time, they only feel alive when ragebaiting others.
Lol, of course you're autistic enough to contact support and tell them you're being ddos'd because you lost connection and expected them to believe you with zero evidence.
And had a decade long grudge against some random player over a single sperg out.
And no-lifed f2p games but still capped out at silver.
And rage quit a league only to come back on an alt to use cheats.
You raise a TON of points I had completely forgotten about in my reply.
Also keep in mind 30% cut is just crazy, they don't do anything. This would be like airbnb taking 30% of what the consumer pay... actually airbnb is trash too. 15% should be PLENTY.
Steam is not a nice platform. They are meant to be a business, of course, but my issue is that they pretend they are some kind of grand sauveur for video games. The fact remains that Steam is super expensive, doesn't really do much, and take a huge huge cut of indie companies (in particular) revenues. 30% of sales is simply insane for the very little they do. At most I'd accept if they took 1) 5% for credit card fees 2) 5% for paying servers/downloads 3) 5% profit margin.
Steam would still make hundreds of millions. There's a reason they didn't really release many games in the last 15 years: it's just not worth it. Why spend years and years developing half-life 3 to maybe sell 10,000,000 copies at a $30 profit (300M) when you make more than that just from doing nothing?
Let's also talk about DRM. Why is everyone here so accepting of this garbage? Steam IS DRM. Good luck trying to play games offline. It works a week AT MOST, and you better have downloaded and prepared your games beforehands.
Steam also encourages Denuvo and all that trash. They could take a stand and say that this stuff is not allowed on their store. They don't.
Same for kernel level "anticheat" aka you give out total control of your computer.
Oh and of course, as soon as Visa/mastercard raised their voice, Steam took many games off their platforms. Not a word, nothing. Gone.
Steam also sells licenses to game. They plain and simply say they can revoke your game licenses at any time for any reason.
And somehow people here are fine with another launcher for their games?
Steam is nowhere near as bad as Ubisoft/EA, but it's still garbage. And their prices are high, too - you can almost always find the same game cheaper on other websites.
I'll respect Steam for having easy downloads/easy, auto-updates, and sometimes decent sales. But it remains a cancer to the video game industry. They are as censor-heavy and as DEI/anti freedom as any other big company. Profits and profits alone count.
I buy my games on gog when I can, else I pirate them.
yeah, i have a studio that'll be releasing a game this year and the 30% cut thing is abysmal. 30%, then 30-50% to draconic taxes, and you are basically working to enrich other people. it's daylight robbery.
people say "of course they're a monopoly, they're the only good platform!" but other platforms being too incompetent to uproot the monopoly doesn't make their abuse of it any better. especially when a shitton of the money is going to stuff like Gaben having 6 pleasure yachts.
Most likely steam will just stop its services in the UK
They genuinely want to sue them for being too good??? Fucking retarded clown jew country
And if that's gonna happen, it might actually start a much needed revolution in that godforsaken hellhole
The last domestic revolution they had ended in Cromwell burning a bunch of Catholic churches down and undoing the edict of expulsion. So I wouldn't hold my breath on them putting the right people in power even if they do wake up.
Gaben V the Dodge Brothers?
As much as I hate steam, i hate the UK way more.
Fuck the UK
Since you brought it up; What is you that you don't like about steam? Use more than one sentence please.
Lol, brace yourself. Where do I start.
Valve helped push and create the idea of microtransactions in the form of hats. Now we have 1000$ knife skins.
No one understands but valves trust factor is literally the definition of pay 2 win. As long as you keep spending money, the quality of your matches will not suffer.
I could also rant a bit about counter strike, a game I played since 1998 when the beta first came out. Trust factor is again inherently flawed, its pay to win, they dont care bout the cheating problem thinking they can just punish legit players with a low priority cheating pool.
They have removed all content from the game, and after 3 years are you people going to admit thats its just never coming back. Keep hoping for cache, im still wondering what the fuck happened to cs_assault or cs_militia. I quit playing cs last in mid of december, feels good. 40% win rate across something like 1300 fucking games is enough for me. Meanwhile me and my silver teammates are getting matched with legendary eagles and master guardians. Or its just people straight up looking through walls, I rewatch alot of my demos. I tried premier the first season, but gave up because of the cheaters. Multiple confirmed gamed/vac bans on my alt which ranked in at 2000 premier, im still fucking laughing.
https://csstats.gg/player/76561197974771016 (you will have to login with your steam account or make a account if you really wanna see. Really strange when your winrate is as high as your headshot percentage.)
I had about 10,000 hours in dota 2, I quit playing around 2019 when valve decided it would be funny to match me with spanish speaking players, every game. And then they thought it would be funny to punish people for other people being retarded in the form of a "communication and behavior score" that made sure i would never play again. Nothing like being reported and told you havent bought wards when you literally did nothing but support and buy wards the entire FUCKING GAME.
Lets talk about the gambling mechanics that valve uses to hook young players and coupled with trust factor is used to rig games with generative ai, but thats ok, at least its not art.
I could talk also about my personal experience with being cyber stalked, doxed, threatened, over a fucking left 4 dead game because I whooped some loser by one fucking point.
That happened in fucking 2009, this guy is still fucking at it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/550/discussions/0/592897268795933140/
Im wondering if they have a personal relationship with valve. When attempting to get support, for some reason chet falisk when he still worked there in 2009, tried to gaslight me and tell me it was my router doing it and when I lost it, I was banned from l4d2 forums for "disrespect", although for some reason killahinstinct that asshole unbanned me before they were forced off the volunteer moderator team. Something valve has done a few times before. Get volunteers to translate your games, moderate your forums, and then ditch them the moment you make billions and use ai to handle all your admin functions.
The forums are not moderated by humans, which means your basically getting banned if x reported in y amount of time.
I could go fucking, on and on.
And yet you guys think gabe is some kinda of miracle messiah, the mans a fucking shark and I wouldnt put it past them to be eating babies out there on international waters.
You guys praise him for piracy, that fucker banned one of my steam accounts for using a hl2 key that 20,000 other people used and didnt even work, because I was a stupid kid and put it in.
Somehow nobody remembers that shit.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/valve-bans-half-life-2-players/
The entire platform has a bot problem.
There are bots in the forums telling people that no one is cheating.
https://github.com/DanielSparta/Steam-Forum-AI-Bot
There are bots on the workshop downvoting legit authors and upvoting scam/spam content. This is why I stopped using valve hammer after 20 years. Anything you make is never going to be seen unless it goes viral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqDVcuzVH1Y
There are literal bots in fucking game just farming items 24/7, and valve doesnt seem to care, or cant do anything about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6JTIK9suk
Bans are another thing, touching on the AI system. People have figured out if you report someone so many times in a short time period you can trigger a temp ban. They will often even use nonsense like "encouraging violence" and when you ask support to clarify, they just simply wont, thats because they are ai lmao. Im just a retard dying from parthyroidism, prolly from being poisoned at work, i dont have to waste my time arguing or clarifying myself anymore. Support is legally required to fucking respond though!
If you can trigger so many temp bans in one forum in a time frame I tihnk its a month or something, you can get someone perma banned. There are entire groups composed of sad and angry individuals who game this and ban people they do not like for whatever reason. Ive even seen people in the warframe discussions bragging about how they do this all the time, they only feel alive when ragebaiting others.
Lol, of course you're autistic enough to contact support and tell them you're being ddos'd because you lost connection and expected them to believe you with zero evidence.
And had a decade long grudge against some random player over a single sperg out.
And no-lifed f2p games but still capped out at silver.
And rage quit a league only to come back on an alt to use cheats.
All of this makes perfect sense.
You raise a TON of points I had completely forgotten about in my reply.
Also keep in mind 30% cut is just crazy, they don't do anything. This would be like airbnb taking 30% of what the consumer pay... actually airbnb is trash too. 15% should be PLENTY.
Steam = huge nuisance to indie games.
Steam is not a nice platform. They are meant to be a business, of course, but my issue is that they pretend they are some kind of grand sauveur for video games. The fact remains that Steam is super expensive, doesn't really do much, and take a huge huge cut of indie companies (in particular) revenues. 30% of sales is simply insane for the very little they do. At most I'd accept if they took 1) 5% for credit card fees 2) 5% for paying servers/downloads 3) 5% profit margin.
Steam would still make hundreds of millions. There's a reason they didn't really release many games in the last 15 years: it's just not worth it. Why spend years and years developing half-life 3 to maybe sell 10,000,000 copies at a $30 profit (300M) when you make more than that just from doing nothing?
Let's also talk about DRM. Why is everyone here so accepting of this garbage? Steam IS DRM. Good luck trying to play games offline. It works a week AT MOST, and you better have downloaded and prepared your games beforehands.
Steam also encourages Denuvo and all that trash. They could take a stand and say that this stuff is not allowed on their store. They don't.
Same for kernel level "anticheat" aka you give out total control of your computer.
Oh and of course, as soon as Visa/mastercard raised their voice, Steam took many games off their platforms. Not a word, nothing. Gone.
Steam also sells licenses to game. They plain and simply say they can revoke your game licenses at any time for any reason.
And somehow people here are fine with another launcher for their games?
Steam is nowhere near as bad as Ubisoft/EA, but it's still garbage. And their prices are high, too - you can almost always find the same game cheaper on other websites.
I'll respect Steam for having easy downloads/easy, auto-updates, and sometimes decent sales. But it remains a cancer to the video game industry. They are as censor-heavy and as DEI/anti freedom as any other big company. Profits and profits alone count.
I buy my games on gog when I can, else I pirate them.
yeah, i have a studio that'll be releasing a game this year and the 30% cut thing is abysmal. 30%, then 30-50% to draconic taxes, and you are basically working to enrich other people. it's daylight robbery.
people say "of course they're a monopoly, they're the only good platform!" but other platforms being too incompetent to uproot the monopoly doesn't make their abuse of it any better. especially when a shitton of the money is going to stuff like Gaben having 6 pleasure yachts.
What's with the clickbait title font?