What went wrong?

What went wrong?

Why are you asking this?

You showed up.

Money.

Jews.

Money and Jews.


Together.

Because Steam is objectively the worst software distribution client on the market right now.

Drm and the lack of options to direct your payment

Tried too hard. This year's Winter sale was so bad that it did not even have a holiday theme to it but some awards ceremony with some lazy ass illustrations.

But what's the point of asking us?

...

What could've went right?

Wrong.

Steam is simply too popular to have any decent competition, it's basically a monopoly. You can't shift entire communites and subscriptions, afterall.

Honestly, steam might as well be nationalized. It's that uncompetitive.

No quality control and no incentive to do better.

Not much. Games were pretty much doomed with a market base that doesn't expand, internet getting more popular (piracy easier), development costs increasing, mobile, etc.

And what would you say that title goes to?

Steam is cool, cheap games during sales. Avoid greenlight artsy hipster shit and you're fine

Hasn't something like, 40 or 60% of Steam's game library come from this year alone? Because they pretty much opened up the floodgates on greenlight.
What's that, you own one RPG game? I hope you like RPG Maker!

The company maintaining it
*has stopped caring about making games.
*is trying to push Steam OS, Steam Machines, Steam Controllers - ALL FAILED.
*is trying to push VR - TINY MARKETSHARE, OVERPRICED, FAILED AGAIN.
*is using practices on the borderline of THEFT and MALPRACTICE pushing Skins, PAID MODS.
*BROKE AUSTRALIAN LAW ON REFUNDS
*USED LUXEMBOURG TO HIDE PROFITS

I don't know, but there are worse software distribution services out there, even outside of vidya.

Those don't work on this site, bud.

Steam is basically a monopoly and Valve is a company that constantly listens to redditors and has a horsefucker redditor CEO. Not to mention putting fucking HILARIOUS memes in their front page.
Also no QC whatsoever allowing the floodgates for garbage games.

RIP WON
RIP Sierra

I exclusively pirate steam only games. Valve doesn't make any products anymore, there are no actual developers left at Valve.

WON was another shitshow like Gamespy that would basically kill online multiplayer for that game in 5-10 years. Player hosted Quake/Source like servers or absolutely nothing.
You can only play Tribes 2 now because of autistic modders that are way too dedicated to the game.

Consolefags moving to pc gaymen

t. gaben

It was less intrusive than both gamespy and steam and like you said there's always autists out there who hack the game to use custom masterlists for servers.

It's too easy for someone to obscure a fresh account and make it harder to report them for cheating in a game.
>inb4 shitchilds defend being a faggot with 0 skill