My first encounter with STEAM...

[Deakul]

It's a horrible thing, people being so complacent as to say they have no issues with Steam anymore as if the constant DRM and general fuckery meant nothing.

It's pretty unobtrusive DRM though, even the offline service works fine now.
For me anyways.

And if you're going to bring up "You don't technically own the games and what happens when Steam goes down?"
Shit man, I'll probably be fucking DEAD when Steam goes down, if it ever does.

 

[Cadmus]

It's pretty unobtrusive DRM though, even the offline service works fine now.
For me anyways.

And if you're going to bring up "You don't technically own the games and what happens when Steam goes down?"
Shit man, I'll probably be fucking DEAD when Steam goes down, if it ever does.

Just you wait.
We'll talk again in a few years when STEAM finally starts cashing in on its monopoly.

Besides, I like to own functional game disks not empty CDs with STEAM code, lolol. But I'm the idiot who can't get with the times I guess.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

I remember back in the day that if you purchased a game, you'd sit through a 5-15 minute installation, and then you'd be good to go.

Which led to less than 25% of the customer base to download often crucial updates off the developer's website.

I have dreadful memories of not knowing that for VTMB.

 

[Irenaeus II]

lol I played VtMB right out of the box in 2004, no patches, and finished it without encountering a bug (that I noticed). Must have been some kind of miracle.

 

[upwardlymobile]

Just you wait.
We'll talk again in a few years when STEAM finally starts cashing in on its monopoly.

exactly. now that people have so much invested in steam valve can start raping their buttholes any time they want and everyone will just grab their ankles because they have you all over a barrel

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

It was because I had to restart it two times due to crippling quest stuck. There was also the dreadful canalization bug I still get PTSD when I see canalization today.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

lol I played VtMB right out of the box in 2004, no patches, and finished it without encountering a bug (that I noticed). Must have been some kind of miracle.

Impossible. Some level change in the boat was always crashing.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Impossible. Some level change in the boat was always crashing.

Maybe the BRazilian version was fixed somehow. Bought it for Christmas in December 2004 and finished before New's Year. I swear on me mum

 

[lefthandblack]

exactly. now that people have so much invested in steam valve can start raping their buttholes any time they want and everyone will just grab their ankles because they have you all over a barrel

Oh yes. I can't wait. The butthurt is going to be glorious. The thing is, all it would take is steam going public or Gabe Newell's death to usher in the steamacalypse.
I never drank the kool aid, as a result I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and LAUGH and LAUGH and LAUGH!

 

[Metro]

^ Been here since 2006 and still waiting for Steam to go under? Nearly a decade so far. Say it takes another decade to go under... at that point are you going to say, "HAHA SEE?!?! ALL IT TOOK WAS TWENTY YEARS NOW YOU CAN'T PLAY THAT GAME YOU BOUGHT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO!" I can't even find shit I bought retail from the mid 90's.

 

[Gnidrologist]

Pirating is the only answer.

 

[lefthandblack]

^ Been here since 2006 and still waiting for Steam to go under? Nearly a decade so far. Say it takes another decade to go under... at that point are you going to say, "HAHA SEE?!?! ALL IT TOOK WAS TWENTY YEARS NOW YOU CAN'T PLAY THAT GAME YOU BOUGHT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO!" I can't even find shit I bought retail from the mid 90's.

Oh no, I don't expect them to go under, far from it. What is going to happen is that Gabe or his heirs are going to sell out at some point. It will probably be either EA or Microsoft who buys Steam and then you can really rent your games with a monthly subscription and probably mods too for that matter as they just recently tipped their hand in regard to that. I'll be cobbling together palladium free computers from old parts to install games from my gog library or the cd/dvd's I still have to play them for the 24th time, an infinitely better prospect to me than pondering the thousands of dollars I would have had stolen from me had I drank the kool-aid. Hell, I just recently hooked up my SEGA SATURN for the lulz, it still works and I still have all the games I bought for it.

 

[Metro]

I'm pretty sure Gabe owns around 70% or so of the company if not more. Why would his heirs sell out when they'd probably make tens of millions a year in profit alone without bothering to manage it?

 

[Kutulu]

Picture

that looks like stephen king, really it does.

 

[lefthandblack]

I'm pretty sure Gabe owns around 70% or so of the company if not more. Why would his heirs sell out when they'd probably make tens of millions a year in profit alone without bothering to manage it?

Enough money to buy a small country, for one. There might be an appeal to have more money than God and not have to worry about anything else but how to spend it.

Of course, I'm speculating, lots of things could happen. I have just made a habit of not putting myself in a position where someone has that much power over me, even if that power is just potential power, as the best cure is not to get sick in the first place.

Since GOG has become successful I am able to ignore Steam for the most part, but still feel compelled to respond in posts like this if for no other reason than to show solidarity with poeple who feel the same way. Monopolies are never a good thing and GOG is the only signifigant thing stopping Steam from being a monopoly.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Haha what a retarded post.Fitting name too.Keep paying for scene releases goy.In revenue Steam is not even leading player,monopoly hahah retard.

 

[Turjan]

Perhaps not right on the front but... who buys retail in 2015?

Germans or Austrians I would guess. At least, here you can still go into an electronics store and find rows and rows of boxed PC games, and I'm not talking used ones.

 

[Turjan]

Now go buy The Witcher 3 and have fun downloading 10 GB patches.

If only. I think last time I started the client it was 23 GB or something ridiculous like that. Which should be the whole game, if I think of it.

 

[Telengard]

Enough money to buy a small country, for one. There might be an appeal to have more money than God and not have to worry about anything else but how to spend it.

Of course, I'm speculating, lots of things could happen. I have just made a habit of not putting myself in a position where someone has that much power over me, even if that power is just potential power, as the best cure is not to get sick in the first place.

Since GOG has become successful I am able to ignore Steam for the most part, but still feel compelled to respond in posts like this if for no other reason than to show solidarity with poeple who feel the same way. Monopolies are never a good thing and GOG is the only signifigant thing stopping Steam from being a monopoly.

You're completely missing the far more likely course of events, copied upteen thousand times in history.

• Owner retires and divests himself of most of his stock in the process.
• Idiot son takes over the company, immediately running it into the ground, forcing him to sell stock.
• Investment buys up the stock and makes a bid for control of the company, gaining it due to low confidence in the current leadership.
• Investment ownership begins asset mining the company.
• Everyone who is not an investor gets royally fucked.

 

[Metro]

GOG is shit because it supports the production of more Witcher games.

 

[Excidium II]

And the women keep getting more clothed and prude with every iteration.

 

[Metro]

Ciri will be the protagonist of the next one. Bank on it.