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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • I think people often hate steam for their success, but fail to see it’s the result of customers’choice in a free market. (I see it enough I’m not sure if people get paid to hate on them… To ruin the thing they have most of customer respect)

    Steam is not publicly traded and does not act like every other publicly traded company. It invests in its customers experience and custtomer come back for that. It does not nickel in dime or use its position to hold its customer captive and enshitfify its product. It’s not an ISP…

    It invests in hardware and software development it believes the industry needs not to make a massive profit but to be a champion of what gaming should be (Linux, steam link, index, bug picture, steam controller, steam deck) These products are experimental and usually sold at or near cost not to make money but to prove to the market there is a need and a demand.

    They are often a champion and voice of the gamer.

    They could have tried to be like Bethesda and tried to monetize their workshop but they didn’t.

    Sometimes they’re quiet and we don’t hear anything about what they’re working on, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t working on things.

    I can’t imagine pc gaming would have survived and resurged without steam. And I hate to think what it would be like if there were just 5 epics, origin, Uplay, whatever other launcher. I think gaming would look like mobile games…,… which takes a 30% cut too and can only sell in apple or android markets… No one bitches there and they offer no services.





  • Corigan@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlnext year bois
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    9 months ago

    Am I the only negative Nancy that thinks this year is fucked and doomed to fuck the next 20 years with the Orange small hand smelly cancerous asshole returning to power and going of course unpunished and then starting ww3 or a civil war or fucking becoming hilter 2 the fat and senile edition…

    Fuck.

    Can my tears vote…