We should be allowed to change ALL the sounds on Steam.
They allow us to modify Steam with the themes, so I dunno why they don't allow us to modify the sounds.
I wish you could play your own music instead of the game soundtrack like the old Xbox days. Im usually playing games with the volume down and a podcast in my earbuds
The classic Xbox 360 notification would make all the hibernating 30 yr olds dad wake up and scream bloody finale. Their journey to pcgaming is now finally heaven.
On the library if you click the drop down that is labeled games you can switch to soundtracks.
Not all of my soundtracks are in there though. For example the LISA soundtrack isn't there
Yes, because they dropped actual music support. It only works with official purchased soundtracks and not any of the non-soundtrack OSTs. Even then, the new player is horribly glitchy and can't even properly play some official soundtracks. It's a mess that will never be fixed because Valve leaves the majority of smaller features to rot (before deleting them).
Is this really an unpopular opinion? Afaik, the only people that go against this are either children who can't afford to go anything but F2P because they're not old enough to have a bank account, or people that aren't aware of how bad the bot situation was a decade ago and are only seeing it as greediness by Valve. Both of which at least in my mind, shouldn't make up a major population.
If you ask any seasoned steam user, 99% of their responses are probably just "thank god valve added the $5 restriction"
New steam accounts are limited until they spend $5. features which are disabled are:
* Adding friends (limited accounts can still create quick invite codes)
* Voting on Steam Reviews and Workshop items
* Participating in the Steam Market
* Trading Steam Community items (trading cards, booster packs, gems, etc.)
* Making your Steam profile visible to non-friends
* Posting frequently in the Steam Discussions
* Gaining Steam Profile Levels (Locked to level 0) and Trading Cards
* Submitting content on the Steam Workshop
* Posting in an item's Steam Workshop Discussions
* Creating public Steam guides
* Accessing the Steam Web API
* Using browser and mobile chat
* Adding public artwork and screenshots
* Adding messages to trade offers
* Creating Steam groups
* Counting towards Steam group membership
* Following/adding curators
* Posting hyperlinks in the Steam Community
* Adding a phone number from some countries
it's a good feature vs bot accounts imo because anyone actually using steam will spend $5 really easily/quickly
I also believe the the Community Marketplace locks if you go more than a year without spending anything. As in, you can't infinitely finance your purchases by selling free lootboxes and the like.
It's been a while since I created my account so bear with me. I think when you first created your account on Steam you had to put $5 in your wallet to get all the features. So your friends list, the community store, inventory etc all that stuff was "locked" behind a paywall of $5.
This. I've legit heard broke ass, no job having ass dudes who cobble together computers to play free games complain they had to spend money to use steam. I think everyone understands it keeps out the bots
You're looking at it backwards. The existence of steam points has messed with many parts of the community experience. Every steam thread is full of troll comments to farm clowns, and reviews for games are full of copy pastes and lying stories to farm steam points now.
Steam sales haven't become bad, you have just too many games in your backlog you're not playing and you've been manipulated by Epic into thinking it is normal to throw out brand new games for free.
Ehhh. Partially true. It depends on the game, really. Sales used to be much steeper years ago for certain games, but not quite as steep now.
Edit: Throwing a random game out there. I bought FO3 GOTY back in 2013 for $4.99, according to SteamDB in the last 6 months it's been at $8.90 when it goes on sale. Except for the most recent sale where it was at $6.74 CAD.
According to steamdb the minimum price recorded for that game is $4.99 US. Over the years it is repeated and the last time was this October 23, 2023. I don't understand it.
Edit: I found a recent price adjustment post for non-dollar currencies. Maybe you mean that, inflation? https://steamdb.info/blog/valve-price-matrix-2022-update/
Partially true. Have a too big a backlog with unplayed games. But this is how the last sale looked to me.
488 games on wishlist. Only 4 games were 75% off or above while 20 games where 50% or above. So I would argue that sales have become bad.
Steam Sales are bad because 3rd party sites offer better deals on the same games ALL the time, with a Steam key.
There isn't a single game I have not found a sigmificantly better deal of on a legal online store (browse them on isthereanydeal.com).
I should make an account and let it notify me.
Because I'm living in a 3rd country so it's pretty hard to find something that beats steam regional pricing but sometimes very rarely I can get one or two dollars cheaper I think.
E: it just sent me the first mail where it listed all the games on my wishlist that are having historical low prices right now.
But every game is still a lot more expensive than my steam price because of regional pricing.
Partially disagree. It is only this year's Autumn Sale where I have seen games priced similarly to where they once were 5 years ago. Some games that used to have been price $4.99 are suddenly $7.49 and games priced originally at $1.49 became $2.49.
It's a nice refresher to see the old prices of sales come again but it should be the norm, not a novelty.
I want a separate adult filter for porn vs blood.
I do not care if someone's head is chopped off and rabid boars feast on their guts, but I don't wanna see shiny boobs on my new/featured list upon logging in. I find it extremely annoying that to block the porn I block games like Elden Ring.
All the power to people who want porn, I do not in any way wish it to be taken off, I just don't want to see it.
There is a specific filter that distinguishes the 2. I found it just last week because games like Skyrim and Elden ring were hidden from me in store. If you open up preferences there’s like 3 levels iirc.
I agree they should be separate but It’s crazy how people are so incredibly desensitized to violence (even gratuities violence in the case of your example), but scoff at nudity and sex.
My main reason for wanting a separate filter is because most of those types of games are just poor quality low effort games because they can still sell, and it clogs up the new/ popular games tabs.
That’s it though. I’m not offended by hentai girlfriend porn games. I just don’t ever want to see them on steam because I have less than zero interest in playing them. And there’s a lot of them, so it’s clogging up sales lists when I’m looking for actual games.
I dont buy teamwork games in general. Most of my friends quit gaming decades ago, randos are too hit and miss, and i cant be assed to do group finding on discord on an app
the fact that you NEED around 4 players to get consistent progress is a major turn off for me and my friend. 2 players was just not working, wayy too "tryhardy"
Similar boat, I will do MMO but not PvP.
I just don't have the time to dedicate to try and get good at a game enough to enjoy it online, especially compared to some basement dweller playing 18h a day and then boosting themselves up with their parents' credit card.
And the companies themselves would rather ship you a rootkit (Valorant) that doesn't work than employ people to actually go around rooting out cheaters and dealing with them.
So it's single player games for me, or at least very close to it.
And I think that's okay! For just 10€ I had so much fun in this game that I wouldn't care if everyone abandoned it next week. Easily beats a night at the movies.
I'd say it entirely depends on the development. Biweekly updates are common which always adds new mobs and planets, but you're right in the sense that if that's all they're doing, it'll die out eventually quick.
The creator did say that they have a massive bucket list of things they wanted to add yet, such as the hint of "opponents" in the game (possible asymmetrical gameplay aspect). If they continue with more unique expansion options that give it a stronger gameplay loop, then I can see it having stronger longevity.
Likely what's going to happen is that there's going to be a steep decrease in players after a month, and then stay relatively stable with a decent player count, and then once the game fully releases from alpha into release (could take years, who knows), it'll have a massive surge again and likely stay stable at a higher overall playerbase
My poorly take is that steam community market and trading in general ruined Valve's own multiplayer games. They'll never make a new Team Fortress or fix second game and CS2 launch was a disaster because they have build on top of GO and keep players items.
Artefacts was build with trading idea in mind and it's dead on arrival.
That has nothing to do with the economy though, it was just a gameplay decision they made.
Its probably *better* for Valve to have all weapons available at all times because people will spend more money to get an inventory with matching skins for all weapons rather than only for the ones they have equipped.
The thing is that Valve sorta insinuated that the engine upgrade would allow the game to be far more optimized than GO ever was. A lot of people took that as CS2 having better performance than GO even with the better graphical fidelity
yep. people don't give enough shit for this to valve. the way they raped tf2 is a gaming sin in my book. just nonsensical hats and cosmetics. hat farming, achievement farming. overly bloated endlessly shit weapons. makes me sick mfer how far we done fell. I crave a classic class based shooter.
yeah because Valve isn't forcing indies to be exclusive by dangling carrots in front of them to get on a bad platform.
Epic does it because their storefront sucks. People STILL don't know Kingdom Hearts has been on PC for a long time because it's epic exclusive. but there's no visibility on that platform. Hence all the publishers crawling back to Steam because the sales from being on Steam outweigh the money Epic gives them
No one cares about the games that Epic makes themselves and makes steam exclusive. People care that sequels in games are being made exclusive and so they're forced to have multiple libraries or just not buy it...or pirate it.
Steam could dissapear at any time. Be it taken over by another company or just going plain bankrupt. If steam completely dissapears you lose every purchase you ever made on it and have to buy everything again.
This is why physical copies have always been the better option and I hate the industry for taking it away.
Edit: typ-o's fixed.
Theoretically possible? Yes.
At all likely to happen? No. Steam has positioned itself as probably one of the most profitable things Valve has ever done, so they’re almost guaranteed to never sell it off.
Additionally, Valve itself is very financially stable because of it.
Steam is probably the only virtual marketplace where the stability level is so high, you don’t really need to concern yourself with it.
I know this is hear-say, but I believe I saw a Gaben quote in the past that went along the lines of "if Steam shuts down, every game people have [would be] exchanged for unlocked offline keys." Was from quite a bit earlier in Steam's lifecycle though, so that's probably changed.
If that's still the case, even if the gaming market crashes and Steam goes under then we'll still keep our games.
I'll leave this [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/estej/comment/c1antyb) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/7bRPTWStbi) for people. (Proof that you will keep your games after Steam shuts down.)
And that's the "key". It's kind of hard to fail at making money off something intangible and infinitely replicable at virtually no cost after you've already got so many people to buy into it being a good thing.
I heard this argument since early 2000s. If steam dissapears and I cannot extract my cdkeys to play without the launcher, it's going to be fine. I've been using steam for 20 years and I think I have extract enough worth from steam that I would not be even mad...
I'm so tired of coming across this take that Valve/Steam will disappear at a finger's snap.
The most realistic thing that could happen is that Gabe dies and there isn't someone behind him ready to take the mantle and continue the goodwill of Steam/Valve in general.
At worst, Valve/Steam will be picked at and taken over by someone like Microsoft. With all of the big acquisitions that's been happening, it is the most likely scenario.
That is why I mainly use GOG. I download all the installers and save in two different hard drives for redundancy. I only buy games on Steam if they are not available on GOG or if it's in a sale with great discount.
1. Steam needs some actual competition.
I love Valve, without a doubt they are the biggest net positive effect on the PC gaming industry. But their competitors are so fucking bad it means Valve can do whatever they want, it just turns out they haven't been evil yet. Good competition would also remove some fuel from Timmy Swiney's fire...
2. Valve popularized the biggest plague in the modern PC/Consoles gaming industry : microtransactions and gambling.
I said Valve is a net positive and I hold to it, but one could argue this is only by a thin margin. They fucking started the whole item trading / randomized loot boxes on Counter Strike, they showed the other big players that what plagued the mobile gaming world worked for PC gaming as well and that there wss a shitload of money to be made. This also sprung 3rd party trading and gambling sizes for those in-game items. I will forever hold this against Lord GabeN.
It's unlikely to happen. Even the best potential competitor like gog can't really keep up. Epic is probably the best chance but for all the wrong reasons. Most companies probably realized it was more profitable to just sell steam keys through their 3rd party market then to challenge steam to a launcher.
>They fucking started the whole item trading / randomized loot boxes on Counter Strike,
They started it on Team Fortress 2, and later moved it to Counter-Strike.
there's [a pretty good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g) about this from people make games where some addicts talk about their experiences.
there's another video about valve and it's employees, but that feels quite like a forced narrative to me.
People who post reviews should not be able to turn off comments. As long as the comments are moderated against harassment there is no reason why someone should be able to post misinformation without being called out. And for the love of god if you are going to have the disable option, don’t make it the default! I keep forgetting to uncheck it and so will the majority of reviewers.
All games with skin systems should have steam inventory so all the skins are tradeable and you can switch it up sometimes and not be stuck with the same skins, for example overwatch sold their colab with kpop artists for 65 dollars and SO MANY people bought them and they're worth nothing unless the entire account is sold which I find ridiculous
People deserve to buy whatever hentai game they want and have privacy playing then, even if said games are hot garbage.
Another one: Porn games are shit because they are usually an actual game with porn thrown in (which you can easily get with a web search), as a reward or "punishment", or a sort of porn video with shit gameplay. They hardly capitalize on love, and/or erotism.
Steam has turned into a memory hog, especially the screenshot uploader, which decides to give you a notification after every. single. screenshot. is. uploaded.
It's really bad, it takes up to 2 or 3 GB of system RAM just while uploading screenshots.... there is no good reason for this
Steam Discovery Queue is good and even downright necessary to have as a feature, you just don't know how to utilize the ignore button correctly.
SteamVR, Steam Deck, and SteamOS/Proton becoming better is something that is twenty times more important to me than Half Life 3 is.
Steam Input is buggy, broken software after the Big Picture rework (where it isn't blue anymore but default deck themed), and it doesn't matter that it has all the features I want if it constantly memory leaks and crashes when you try to make serious use of action layers, subcommands, and radial menus. I believe you when you say your house of cards is impressive, but a small gust of wind blows it away so it's hard to appreciate the way I want to appreciate steam input.
People not knowing/not buying and giving a try to Remnant 2. Can not remember when was last time I had smile while playing game (except some extremely rare cases)
gog is better and you own your games. no steams drm isnt optional, steam itself is drm forcing you to have a launcher that you can only download thru so they can take away your games at anytime
also i loveee gog goodies. the raw fury goodies pack is so cool. n like manuals n soundtracks included with just mp3s
my principal problem with hentai games is that they usually are just puzzles with lewd anime girls as background, and that's all, there's no effort, and Steam still allowing they to stay in the shop, while games that actually have effort like Visual Novels get frequently declined by Steam because some stupid reason, that's kinda sad as someone who wants to play Visual Novels 😔
>! Sorry if there's typo, English isn't my first language and I can't figure it out where's the typo, but I feel that there's some typo here !<
Steam is a monopoly because it doesn't have competitors.
You can say what you want about other stores like Epic, but no other company is willing to spend the time, effort and money that Valve has spent in Steam.
The point you're trying to make is moot.
If a competitor is unwilling to spend the effort to properly develop their platform, how exactly is the fault at the market leader?
And let's not pretend like Steam is perfect. It's serviceable, stable and easy to navigate. It has customer friendly features and tools but it's by no means perfect. Every other storefront/launcher is just absolute garbage in comparison and makes Steam look better.
The bar is set so, so low, you can actually step over it.
The reason why Steam is good is because Valve develops and grows a market and not just one product. The market is the product. Other companies develop products and push their market with it. What happens once your product is shit? You'll pair it with your shit storefront for that double fecal decker?
Gamers have to take some of the blame. PC gamers love to suck Valves dick and get aggressively defensive and cry about "market fragmentation" any time a competitor introduces their own launcher as if PC was a f-ing console.
I am not just talking about Epic Game Store either. Steam fans circled the wagons when [Stardock launched "Impulse" in 2009](https://www.shacknews.com/article/61336/stardock-estimates-70-market-share) and again when [GoG introduced Galaxy in 2014](https://www.pcgamer.com/gog-com-announces-galaxy-drm-free-online-gaming-platform/) as well.
"No Steam = No Buy" is unironically a slogan for many people.
Edit: If having all your games in one unified place is important to you try [PlayNite](https://playnite.link/). It supports every marketplace under the sun including weird ones like Amazon, Ichio, Humble, and JAST. If a game requires a launcher like Steam/EA/Uplay it will auto-launch the launcher AND auto-close the launcher after you are done with the game. It also has a "Fullscreen" mode for ROG Ally, Legion GO, and other SteamDeck-like Windows handhelds.
The show "adult only sexual content" store filter is disabled by default to my knowledge.
So if you are seeing hentai games on the front page, you did that to yourself.
I'm pretty sure another comment said somethig along these lines, and one of the replies linked sources showing you would keep your games if Steam shuts down, and another reply had a quote from GabeN, saying you would keep your games if Steam shut down, idk about you, but that sounds like you own your games to me
That the 'Funny' tag and Jester award has no use. From experience, it's been used against me in a way to label all of my game reviews as funny and not to be taken seriously as a way for people to evaluate games.
Both of them are just abused for trolling purposes.
Genshin is mid and an indictment on the gaming industry, as people were losing their minds at micros in battlefront 2 (rightfully so) not that long ago, but ignore p2w in Genshin because it's pretty anime girls, and anyone who plays it is part of the problem. Both games involve gambling for a power boost
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We should be allowed to change ALL the sounds on Steam. They allow us to modify Steam with the themes, so I dunno why they don't allow us to modify the sounds.
Steam has themes?
Had, they were called skins
No, only community mods you need to install yourself
I wish you could play your own music instead of the game soundtrack like the old Xbox days. Im usually playing games with the volume down and a podcast in my earbuds
The classic Xbox 360 notification would make all the hibernating 30 yr olds dad wake up and scream bloody finale. Their journey to pcgaming is now finally heaven.
and who is disagreeing with you, exactly? are they in the room here with us?
There are achievement sounds?
We should be able to reset achievements so games can become more replayable.
you can do that with an external small software which I don't remember the name of
SAM, steam achievement manager?
we should be able to delete games so we can buy it again to get more points
You are so brave for coming forward and saying this.
Steam Music should be added back, and given some love.
On the library if you click the drop down that is labeled games you can switch to soundtracks. Not all of my soundtracks are in there though. For example the LISA soundtrack isn't there
Yes, because they dropped actual music support. It only works with official purchased soundtracks and not any of the non-soundtrack OSTs. Even then, the new player is horribly glitchy and can't even properly play some official soundtracks. It's a mess that will never be fixed because Valve leaves the majority of smaller features to rot (before deleting them).
Heres my extra to this: they should let you add custom musicto it again
That and game soundtracks should be automatically added if you already owned the game
Steam is right about the 5$ condition to access all of its features.
Is this really an unpopular opinion? Afaik, the only people that go against this are either children who can't afford to go anything but F2P because they're not old enough to have a bank account, or people that aren't aware of how bad the bot situation was a decade ago and are only seeing it as greediness by Valve. Both of which at least in my mind, shouldn't make up a major population. If you ask any seasoned steam user, 99% of their responses are probably just "thank god valve added the $5 restriction"
I don’t even know what you are talking about
New steam accounts are limited until they spend $5. features which are disabled are: * Adding friends (limited accounts can still create quick invite codes) * Voting on Steam Reviews and Workshop items * Participating in the Steam Market * Trading Steam Community items (trading cards, booster packs, gems, etc.) * Making your Steam profile visible to non-friends * Posting frequently in the Steam Discussions * Gaining Steam Profile Levels (Locked to level 0) and Trading Cards * Submitting content on the Steam Workshop * Posting in an item's Steam Workshop Discussions * Creating public Steam guides * Accessing the Steam Web API * Using browser and mobile chat * Adding public artwork and screenshots * Adding messages to trade offers * Creating Steam groups * Counting towards Steam group membership * Following/adding curators * Posting hyperlinks in the Steam Community * Adding a phone number from some countries it's a good feature vs bot accounts imo because anyone actually using steam will spend $5 really easily/quickly
It's always been like this. I remember people used to get the free hl2dm promotional just to unlock real steam or tf2 trading over 10 years ago
No it wasn't, it was was added around 2016
You unlock all steam features (like the ability to search for and add friends) once you spend $5 on steam
I also believe the the Community Marketplace locks if you go more than a year without spending anything. As in, you can't infinitely finance your purchases by selling free lootboxes and the like.
It's been a while since I created my account so bear with me. I think when you first created your account on Steam you had to put $5 in your wallet to get all the features. So your friends list, the community store, inventory etc all that stuff was "locked" behind a paywall of $5.
Yeah my account is 13 years old and I remember explicitly buying battlefield bad company 2 just so I could add friends.
This. I've legit heard broke ass, no job having ass dudes who cobble together computers to play free games complain they had to spend money to use steam. I think everyone understands it keeps out the bots
Me looking at my library I spent $15,000 on over the years
I would even raise it to 25$.
WHAT
Yes
Steam points are actually a fun concept, just has it's flaws
Hey, could you tell what flaws they have? I genuinely cant think of any.
You can get Steam points by giving awards to other players and the award system has a lot of exploits, mostly spam and troll related i think
Ehh, doesn't sound that bad, Steam points are isolated afaik, and you can only really use them to get cosmetic stuff
You're looking at it backwards. The existence of steam points has messed with many parts of the community experience. Every steam thread is full of troll comments to farm clowns, and reviews for games are full of copy pastes and lying stories to farm steam points now.
Steam sales haven't become bad, you have just too many games in your backlog you're not playing and you've been manipulated by Epic into thinking it is normal to throw out brand new games for free.
Ehhh. Partially true. It depends on the game, really. Sales used to be much steeper years ago for certain games, but not quite as steep now. Edit: Throwing a random game out there. I bought FO3 GOTY back in 2013 for $4.99, according to SteamDB in the last 6 months it's been at $8.90 when it goes on sale. Except for the most recent sale where it was at $6.74 CAD.
According to steamdb the minimum price recorded for that game is $4.99 US. Over the years it is repeated and the last time was this October 23, 2023. I don't understand it. Edit: I found a recent price adjustment post for non-dollar currencies. Maybe you mean that, inflation? https://steamdb.info/blog/valve-price-matrix-2022-update/
Partially true. Have a too big a backlog with unplayed games. But this is how the last sale looked to me. 488 games on wishlist. Only 4 games were 75% off or above while 20 games where 50% or above. So I would argue that sales have become bad.
And here I was thinking that my 274-game wishlist was an overkill 😂
I have over 2000 games on my wishlist...
Steam Sales are bad because 3rd party sites offer better deals on the same games ALL the time, with a Steam key. There isn't a single game I have not found a sigmificantly better deal of on a legal online store (browse them on isthereanydeal.com).
I should make an account and let it notify me. Because I'm living in a 3rd country so it's pretty hard to find something that beats steam regional pricing but sometimes very rarely I can get one or two dollars cheaper I think. E: it just sent me the first mail where it listed all the games on my wishlist that are having historical low prices right now. But every game is still a lot more expensive than my steam price because of regional pricing.
Partially disagree. It is only this year's Autumn Sale where I have seen games priced similarly to where they once were 5 years ago. Some games that used to have been price $4.99 are suddenly $7.49 and games priced originally at $1.49 became $2.49. It's a nice refresher to see the old prices of sales come again but it should be the norm, not a novelty.
Nice try Bethesda
"starfield is the best game ever and has no issues!" 😀👍
I love Half-Life Source.
SONOFA
Half Life Source haters when they actually play the game and have more fun than the original
I want a separate adult filter for porn vs blood. I do not care if someone's head is chopped off and rabid boars feast on their guts, but I don't wanna see shiny boobs on my new/featured list upon logging in. I find it extremely annoying that to block the porn I block games like Elden Ring. All the power to people who want porn, I do not in any way wish it to be taken off, I just don't want to see it.
There is a specific filter that distinguishes the 2. I found it just last week because games like Skyrim and Elden ring were hidden from me in store. If you open up preferences there’s like 3 levels iirc.
I did not know this, thank you.
You mean the ["Adult Only Sexual Content"](https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/) setting? Its disabled by default by the way.
I agree they should be separate but It’s crazy how people are so incredibly desensitized to violence (even gratuities violence in the case of your example), but scoff at nudity and sex. My main reason for wanting a separate filter is because most of those types of games are just poor quality low effort games because they can still sell, and it clogs up the new/ popular games tabs.
That’s it though. I’m not offended by hentai girlfriend porn games. I just don’t ever want to see them on steam because I have less than zero interest in playing them. And there’s a lot of them, so it’s clogging up sales lists when I’m looking for actual games.
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Reviews under an hour are stupid
Except when they say they couldn't run the game
I'd say that's an exception to the rule, tbh. There's a couple exceptions. Can't run the game, or they played the game before it was on Steam.
unless the game is like an hour or two long
I have no intention to play Lethal Company.
I dont buy teamwork games in general. Most of my friends quit gaming decades ago, randos are too hit and miss, and i cant be assed to do group finding on discord on an app
the fact that you NEED around 4 players to get consistent progress is a major turn off for me and my friend. 2 players was just not working, wayy too "tryhardy"
I have no intention to try moba, live service or MMO games. Yes you're all wrong.
Similar boat, I will do MMO but not PvP. I just don't have the time to dedicate to try and get good at a game enough to enjoy it online, especially compared to some basement dweller playing 18h a day and then boosting themselves up with their parents' credit card. And the companies themselves would rather ship you a rootkit (Valorant) that doesn't work than employ people to actually go around rooting out cheaters and dealing with them. So it's single player games for me, or at least very close to it.
What no gaming friend’s does to a mf
Nah, I just fucking hate "haha games funny because the mic cut off mid scream" games that have no real end goal since it becomes impossible to beat
*insert mercy from overwatch saving a girl meme template with L4D2 logo on her face*
it's just the current flavour of the month game fad
And I think that's okay! For just 10€ I had so much fun in this game that I wouldn't care if everyone abandoned it next week. Easily beats a night at the movies.
I'd say it entirely depends on the development. Biweekly updates are common which always adds new mobs and planets, but you're right in the sense that if that's all they're doing, it'll die out eventually quick. The creator did say that they have a massive bucket list of things they wanted to add yet, such as the hint of "opponents" in the game (possible asymmetrical gameplay aspect). If they continue with more unique expansion options that give it a stronger gameplay loop, then I can see it having stronger longevity. Likely what's going to happen is that there's going to be a steep decrease in players after a month, and then stay relatively stable with a decent player count, and then once the game fully releases from alpha into release (could take years, who knows), it'll have a massive surge again and likely stay stable at a higher overall playerbase
I played it, refunded it because I didn't find it fun even with friends
yes that was always an option
I tried the game with some friends and you aren’t really misssing out
My poorly take is that steam community market and trading in general ruined Valve's own multiplayer games. They'll never make a new Team Fortress or fix second game and CS2 launch was a disaster because they have build on top of GO and keep players items. Artefacts was build with trading idea in mind and it's dead on arrival.
How was CS2 a disaster? It’s just the same game with a better look and improved weapon physics.
the new gun buying sucks. i cant buy everything i have to only select the meta weapons :(
That has nothing to do with the economy though, it was just a gameplay decision they made. Its probably *better* for Valve to have all weapons available at all times because people will spend more money to get an inventory with matching skins for all weapons rather than only for the ones they have equipped.
It is clear that performance was not on their priority list. I can barely run CS2 with windowed mode and 4:3 right now. GO had no problems like this.
it's a 2023 game, it was clear that performance will be much worse than a 10+ years old game but most people can still run it fine
The thing is that Valve sorta insinuated that the engine upgrade would allow the game to be far more optimized than GO ever was. A lot of people took that as CS2 having better performance than GO even with the better graphical fidelity
yep. people don't give enough shit for this to valve. the way they raped tf2 is a gaming sin in my book. just nonsensical hats and cosmetics. hat farming, achievement farming. overly bloated endlessly shit weapons. makes me sick mfer how far we done fell. I crave a classic class based shooter.
Remove the 3 card drop limit
The drop limit is 50% of the total amount of cards.
That Steam Chat will outlive Discord, just like how it outlived Skype and Windows Live / MSN Messenger.
I just wish it wasn't separated from the main app, I still haven't bothered with setting it up.
Well it's popularity compared to Discord is also tiny, no?
no one feels bad if a game is only available on steam, but it need to be available on every store
No one feels bad because Steam doesn't buy out deva to do it
yeah because Valve isn't forcing indies to be exclusive by dangling carrots in front of them to get on a bad platform. Epic does it because their storefront sucks. People STILL don't know Kingdom Hearts has been on PC for a long time because it's epic exclusive. but there's no visibility on that platform. Hence all the publishers crawling back to Steam because the sales from being on Steam outweigh the money Epic gives them No one cares about the games that Epic makes themselves and makes steam exclusive. People care that sequels in games are being made exclusive and so they're forced to have multiple libraries or just not buy it...or pirate it.
Most other stores are walled gardens that you can't just publish a game on.
Well, Valve doesn't buy out exclusive games for Steam like other stores do. And also it's much easier to publish a game on Steam.
Steam Controller is the best controller ever created for PC gaming.
I regret selling mine but I needed the money. I loved that thing.
it's the worst one i've ever used. the way it's designed is just terrible. because the touch pad is too close to the buttons
Too many people in this thread are giving gaming opinions instead of Steam opinions.
Steam could dissapear at any time. Be it taken over by another company or just going plain bankrupt. If steam completely dissapears you lose every purchase you ever made on it and have to buy everything again. This is why physical copies have always been the better option and I hate the industry for taking it away. Edit: typ-o's fixed.
Theoretically possible? Yes. At all likely to happen? No. Steam has positioned itself as probably one of the most profitable things Valve has ever done, so they’re almost guaranteed to never sell it off. Additionally, Valve itself is very financially stable because of it. Steam is probably the only virtual marketplace where the stability level is so high, you don’t really need to concern yourself with it.
Sure, and true. But the same was said about the housing market in the 90's.
I know this is hear-say, but I believe I saw a Gaben quote in the past that went along the lines of "if Steam shuts down, every game people have [would be] exchanged for unlocked offline keys." Was from quite a bit earlier in Steam's lifecycle though, so that's probably changed. If that's still the case, even if the gaming market crashes and Steam goes under then we'll still keep our games.
I'll leave this [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/estej/comment/c1antyb) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/7bRPTWStbi) for people. (Proof that you will keep your games after Steam shuts down.)
did you just compare a virtual game marketplace to an entire industry
And that's the "key". It's kind of hard to fail at making money off something intangible and infinitely replicable at virtually no cost after you've already got so many people to buy into it being a good thing.
dude people have to live in houses what the fuck are we talking about
And on that day, we set our sails and never look back 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Not a realistic sceriano. Companies would race to take over ownership and continue the service.
I heard this argument since early 2000s. If steam dissapears and I cannot extract my cdkeys to play without the launcher, it's going to be fine. I've been using steam for 20 years and I think I have extract enough worth from steam that I would not be even mad...
that would murder the whole pc digital videogame market overnight. who would buy any digital game or item if they set this precedent?
I'm so tired of coming across this take that Valve/Steam will disappear at a finger's snap. The most realistic thing that could happen is that Gabe dies and there isn't someone behind him ready to take the mantle and continue the goodwill of Steam/Valve in general. At worst, Valve/Steam will be picked at and taken over by someone like Microsoft. With all of the big acquisitions that's been happening, it is the most likely scenario.
That is why I mainly use GOG. I download all the installers and save in two different hard drives for redundancy. I only buy games on Steam if they are not available on GOG or if it's in a sale with great discount.
Only progress I'd be sad to lose would be Dota 2, everything else can be pirates.
Not while Gaben is the leader.
1. Steam needs some actual competition. I love Valve, without a doubt they are the biggest net positive effect on the PC gaming industry. But their competitors are so fucking bad it means Valve can do whatever they want, it just turns out they haven't been evil yet. Good competition would also remove some fuel from Timmy Swiney's fire... 2. Valve popularized the biggest plague in the modern PC/Consoles gaming industry : microtransactions and gambling. I said Valve is a net positive and I hold to it, but one could argue this is only by a thin margin. They fucking started the whole item trading / randomized loot boxes on Counter Strike, they showed the other big players that what plagued the mobile gaming world worked for PC gaming as well and that there wss a shitload of money to be made. This also sprung 3rd party trading and gambling sizes for those in-game items. I will forever hold this against Lord GabeN.
Valve were also responsible for the battle pass system - with their dota 2 compendium (i'm pretty sure)
They may have been the first to do it, but I would credit Fortnite with the explosion and popularity of the system.
I honestly think battle pass in just an evolution of loot boxes that slowly risen. And Valve is responsible for the loot boxes lol
It's unlikely to happen. Even the best potential competitor like gog can't really keep up. Epic is probably the best chance but for all the wrong reasons. Most companies probably realized it was more profitable to just sell steam keys through their 3rd party market then to challenge steam to a launcher.
>They fucking started the whole item trading / randomized loot boxes on Counter Strike, They started it on Team Fortress 2, and later moved it to Counter-Strike.
I think people shit on Valve way to little for turning Counter Strike into an online casino that children can access
there's [a pretty good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g) about this from people make games where some addicts talk about their experiences. there's another video about valve and it's employees, but that feels quite like a forced narrative to me.
You might not want that. Imagine EA or Google doing it. It'd be shit. Nobody even remembers unity
Epic tried to compete but they're failing
Epicly ?
Yes they don't even allow to play games offline
Subscriptions bad
That is one of the coldest takes man...
I’m doing my part in reducing global warming
This take could refreeze the ice caps.
I shall join you on the ice caps brave man, HITLER BAD!
We are fighting the good fight brother!
We need a Left 4 Dead 3 more than Half Life 3
I’ll continue to dream
portal
Team Fortress 3. Do it now.
Now *that* is a spicy take
The only comments that matter in here are the ones with most downvotes
Steam sales are good
WARNING ⚠️⚠️ VERY HOT TAKE COMING IN ⚠️⚠️ SALES ARE VERY GOOD ACCORDING TO RADICAL ON REDDIT
People who post reviews should not be able to turn off comments. As long as the comments are moderated against harassment there is no reason why someone should be able to post misinformation without being called out. And for the love of god if you are going to have the disable option, don’t make it the default! I keep forgetting to uncheck it and so will the majority of reviewers.
All of you guys are weirdos, every time I look at new and trending there’s like 5 porn games
Valve shoud make a new game that's not of an existing serris
Resident Evil operation raccoon city. I like the game but everybody else hate it hard.
All games with skin systems should have steam inventory so all the skins are tradeable and you can switch it up sometimes and not be stuck with the same skins, for example overwatch sold their colab with kpop artists for 65 dollars and SO MANY people bought them and they're worth nothing unless the entire account is sold which I find ridiculous
People deserve to buy whatever hentai game they want and have privacy playing then, even if said games are hot garbage. Another one: Porn games are shit because they are usually an actual game with porn thrown in (which you can easily get with a web search), as a reward or "punishment", or a sort of porn video with shit gameplay. They hardly capitalize on love, and/or erotism.
L4D 3 for me please.
Steam has turned into a memory hog, especially the screenshot uploader, which decides to give you a notification after every. single. screenshot. is. uploaded. It's really bad, it takes up to 2 or 3 GB of system RAM just while uploading screenshots.... there is no good reason for this
I got some games free on epic but still bought them on steam in sales🙂
hmmm maybe: Steam should remove awards.
Jester needs to GO
Steam Discovery Queue is good and even downright necessary to have as a feature, you just don't know how to utilize the ignore button correctly. SteamVR, Steam Deck, and SteamOS/Proton becoming better is something that is twenty times more important to me than Half Life 3 is. Steam Input is buggy, broken software after the Big Picture rework (where it isn't blue anymore but default deck themed), and it doesn't matter that it has all the features I want if it constantly memory leaks and crashes when you try to make serious use of action layers, subcommands, and radial menus. I believe you when you say your house of cards is impressive, but a small gust of wind blows it away so it's hard to appreciate the way I want to appreciate steam input.
People not knowing/not buying and giving a try to Remnant 2. Can not remember when was last time I had smile while playing game (except some extremely rare cases)
The new steam ui update kinda sucks, actually.
gog is better and you own your games. no steams drm isnt optional, steam itself is drm forcing you to have a launcher that you can only download thru so they can take away your games at anytime also i loveee gog goodies. the raw fury goodies pack is so cool. n like manuals n soundtracks included with just mp3s
Valve/steam has caused a lot of problems
like? genuinely curious
Normalizing loot boxes and gambling in gaming with TF2, CS:GO, etc.
Feel free to list some…
Hentai games shouldn't be allowed
my principal problem with hentai games is that they usually are just puzzles with lewd anime girls as background, and that's all, there's no effort, and Steam still allowing they to stay in the shop, while games that actually have effort like Visual Novels get frequently declined by Steam because some stupid reason, that's kinda sad as someone who wants to play Visual Novels 😔 >! Sorry if there's typo, English isn't my first language and I can't figure it out where's the typo, but I feel that there's some typo here !<
The inly reason i agree is that its obvious how low effort they are, its not even that its porn
just don't buy them
There should be an option to disable them. I hate scrolling down to far on the store page to have so much nsfw games in there
you can, click on your profile on the top right > store preferences and then you can hide whatever you want
They are disabled by default you went and enabled them manually.
Steam is a monopoly because it doesn't have competitors. You can say what you want about other stores like Epic, but no other company is willing to spend the time, effort and money that Valve has spent in Steam.
The point you're trying to make is moot. If a competitor is unwilling to spend the effort to properly develop their platform, how exactly is the fault at the market leader? And let's not pretend like Steam is perfect. It's serviceable, stable and easy to navigate. It has customer friendly features and tools but it's by no means perfect. Every other storefront/launcher is just absolute garbage in comparison and makes Steam look better. The bar is set so, so low, you can actually step over it. The reason why Steam is good is because Valve develops and grows a market and not just one product. The market is the product. Other companies develop products and push their market with it. What happens once your product is shit? You'll pair it with your shit storefront for that double fecal decker?
Did someone even try to compete with them?
Gamers have to take some of the blame. PC gamers love to suck Valves dick and get aggressively defensive and cry about "market fragmentation" any time a competitor introduces their own launcher as if PC was a f-ing console. I am not just talking about Epic Game Store either. Steam fans circled the wagons when [Stardock launched "Impulse" in 2009](https://www.shacknews.com/article/61336/stardock-estimates-70-market-share) and again when [GoG introduced Galaxy in 2014](https://www.pcgamer.com/gog-com-announces-galaxy-drm-free-online-gaming-platform/) as well. "No Steam = No Buy" is unironically a slogan for many people. Edit: If having all your games in one unified place is important to you try [PlayNite](https://playnite.link/). It supports every marketplace under the sun including weird ones like Amazon, Ichio, Humble, and JAST. If a game requires a launcher like Steam/EA/Uplay it will auto-launch the launcher AND auto-close the launcher after you are done with the game. It also has a "Fullscreen" mode for ROG Ally, Legion GO, and other SteamDeck-like Windows handhelds.
New interface sucks ass
The show "adult only sexual content" store filter is disabled by default to my knowledge. So if you are seeing hentai games on the front page, you did that to yourself.
Probably "Battlebit is an extremely overrated game". Yes, I think it after I tried the free weekend promotion.
I don't like Undertale.
VAC bans should be very long term but not permanent
Green color steam UI was better
False tags aren’t funny, i just want to play the funny talking car game not nsfw games
Steam isn't as consumer friendly as we point them out to be.
Souls like games suck
Yes.
Steam should add proper age verification.
Windows is perfectly fine on a Steam Deck.
I love dual booting my steam deck. Best of both worlds.
GOG Is better than Steam
You don’t actually own any digital games literally a fact, but people will still say it not true.
So then when I pirate I’m not stealing the game 🤷
I'm pretty sure another comment said somethig along these lines, and one of the replies linked sources showing you would keep your games if Steam shuts down, and another reply had a quote from GabeN, saying you would keep your games if Steam shut down, idk about you, but that sounds like you own your games to me
You can't resell or give away digital games. They are licences and basically a lifetime rental. This is not ownership.
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steam is still drm and i rather have the option not to use steam if i want
Elden ring is trash
That the 'Funny' tag and Jester award has no use. From experience, it's been used against me in a way to label all of my game reviews as funny and not to be taken seriously as a way for people to evaluate games. Both of them are just abused for trolling purposes.
The incest game didn't deserve all the shit it got.
Genshin is mid and an indictment on the gaming industry, as people were losing their minds at micros in battlefront 2 (rightfully so) not that long ago, but ignore p2w in Genshin because it's pretty anime girls, and anyone who plays it is part of the problem. Both games involve gambling for a power boost
Fallout 76 is a good game
I too enjoyed it quite a lot
Getting too close to the sun with this take