WELL, I’ll let you know that my GOG collection is larger than my Steam collection!
Respect
It’s like gym membership or books. If everyone with gym membership would go regularly, the business won’t be profitable. Or if everyone only buys a new book after they finish what they have bought, the publishing industry would be in shambles.
These businesses play the probability game. They are actually just insurance by a different name.
It seems like a ignorant take. It’s FOMO but instead of a missing out on a loot box or a silly cosmetic for a high price. It’s about missing out on the sale for a low price.
In defense of the ‘drunken sailors’ of Steam, many of the games they’ve bought are likely to still be playable for a long time, some were bought in half-yearly sales, and some were part of ‘bundles’ that were bought for a different game. The 30% also pays for the Content Delivery Network, marketing, a forum and sometimes moderation, and a genuine customer feedback mechanism. Who wouldn’t want to be part of an un-enshittified system? Fanboy? You bet. I’m not saying they can do no wrong, but they’re doing a lot right.
buying a game for 90% off sure sounds responsible to me lol
Yup. I bought The Forest for $2 a year ago and I’m sure I’ll play it eventually.
Play in VR if you can, amazing experience
I’ve spent ~$1200 and have 227 games to show for it. Plus now works on almost any computer and cloud saves. Steam offers so much gonna be hard to unseat them.
If gaben decides tomorrow to shut it all down, everything is gone. They might have a lot of good will based on past behavior, but in the end it’s still a company and you have zero control over what they do. You don’t actually own any of those games.
If steam shutdown it would probably mean PC gaming itself is dead and the industry is in really big trouble.
Technically, uh no. Many of the games I haven’t loaded onto my PC would no longer be accessible, correct. But I have a copy of Goldberg emulator, in case Valve doesn’t hold up their end of the bargain.
Then technically I am correct? If Valve just shuts down, it’s all gone. You might find a workaround for some of the stuff you happen to have downloaded right now, but in general, everything you “bought” is gone.
“Technically, if your computer breaks and you can’t recover those games after Valve decides to close its doors, those games are gone forever.” Yeah, and? Is there a storefront that doesn’t apply to? Just how long do you think CDs and floppy disks (and the hardware to access them) last, if you haven’t lost them already? Is it more or less than Valve’s lifespan so far?
Technically it would be the same case for GOG too if that happened, since the average consimer doesn’t back up all the games they pay for.
In the end when it comes to digital most consumers rely on convenience and trust than taking the extra step to back up stuff so they remove the dependency.
That’s why the actual back up for lot of people is piracy as the final line of defense and archiving.
Exactly, every game I’ve ever bought is still accessible.
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I always wait 3 years to play a game. Its less expensive, my gpu is up to date and the game is patched.
The perfect south park clip to illustrate this story:
Randy explains how stupid other people are with their money.
Heh as if I wasn’t an idiot and bloated my own steam library with fanatical mystery bundles and all those developers didn’t walk away with a completely random dollar and a chance to actually have a game get noticed and steam got zilch.
It honestly just sounds like a productive economy that’s constantly moving and giving opportunities to developers even if they aren’t getting nothing but ravid fans. Like how busking might work in a wealthy thriving city compared to a poor one.
Guilty.
I wondered which studio would be bold enough to do blatantly insult an entire marketplace of potential customers, but it’s just some guy.
Chris Zukowski.
I am a game marketing consultant and strategist. I have helped Games-as-a-Service companies, indie publishers, and small to single-person teams understand their audience and communicate with them in a more personal way.
Funny way to communicate with your clients audience mate, calling us all “a bunch of drunken sailors”…
I specialize in optimizing your marketing for the Steam algorithm
Ah, so you’re part of the reason nothing has a soul any more. Got it.
Bill Hicks evergreen marketing bit is as relevant now as it was in the 80s.
I have bought games on steam that I already owned and played on other platforms, just because I wanted to support the dev and have a copy on a reliable platform. But with recent developements I do wonder more and more how long it will stay reliable.
What recent developments?
I was thinking of developments in the industry as a whole. Valve themselves have been the only beacon of hope, but for how long.
Probably supporting Linux and open source is now evil or so.
Sorry I wasn’t clear, I’m a big fan of Valve’s efforts, it’s just that they are the only ones right now and I’m wondering how long until they too fall like the rest of the industry.
Another complaint about the 30% cut on PCGamer? This reeks.
So, you’re saying that Steam games are the stuffed animals that’re culturally acceptable for adults to display openly.
Will I get around to playing my whole library? God no, but do i want to give this indie Dev my money? God yes!
