So the problem in essence is, Valve makes too much money according to you?
If you actually read the thread on here about the article you'd have seen multiple devs stating how false the article was.
Though I would like to point out that the 30% isnt necessarily even the case. Developer can sell Steam keys outside Steam and im not aware that the 30% is actually set in stone?
I like how you conveniently didn't respond to the poster that quoted you and gave actual examples of what was wrong with that "article".
Earlier you said it was a survey.
Even still it is a nice feature to have because not all games would let you change controller configurations by default.
It's only available on select titles, with plenty missing (notoriously Sunset Overdrive recently). Steam also supports cross buy between Windows and Linux as well as cross buy through other stores (like GOG giving you GOG copies of your Steam games by checking your account, or websites giving you both DRM-free builds and Steam keys )
The only thing transparent here is that the criticism to another store don't come from the wish of having better options, but from the frustration of not having a one all end all solution. The place to not having to think about how to get a game is on consoles, in PC we pay the price of having options by making decisions and solving problem by ourselves instead of relaying on overlords to add the features that we want. We mod, we configure, we pacth and we circumvent obstacle just so we can have our way. We always did and we always will. Since when any company has stopped PC gamers to play their way? They tried, sure, but always failed miserably.
You missed about 90% of the posts made in this thread. Damn son, colour me impressed.
You know what would be wonderful?
Why don't you help me and quote those enlighten posts that I "clearly missed" that will totally change my opinion in the subject and are totally not the same old condescending arguments that we see in this board over and over again?
You first. I don't think it is particularly excessive to ask people to engage with the information available in the thread.
Dude, there are 8 pages worth of posts which you somehow managed to miss. Obviously im going to act condescending to you. Thats a given at this point. And no, I am not going to restate the same comment for the 10th time, you can start by reading earlier posts.
If I were to state the biggest problem, it is that there are too many of them.
And uh.. the competition.. uhh when games are anti competitively walled behind invisible barriers for no good reason or benefit.. uh.. Steam bad mkaayy...
I will say in terms you will understand.
Indeed. it goes like this: "Valve doesn't offer anything. Except when they do, in which case I'd rather they didn't. They don't do anything to justify their cut, except when they do, in which case they should remove all those features and take a lower cut just because."
Yep, there's an overabundance of quality stuff out there. We're at the point where the only thing devs who want more good games to succed can do is to stop releasing their own good games so others can get a chance to flourish.
GHG said:
It means that they have to *cough* compete for our money.
It's really simple, actually:
i never thought i would live long enough to see public perception turn on Valve. And i never dared to dream that such a thing would happen while Gabe was around. For such things to start happening with him at the helm? #blessed
It's either posts like that, or posts that all pretty much say "Valve needs competition, Steam has been *insert negative adjective here* for *insert exaggerated length of time here*"
This entire post makes not a lick of sense.
This point in particular is just a complete non-sequitur.
About the subscription services, there are subscriptions you can buy from other stories that come in the form of Steam keys like the one that Humble does. It's not part of the client or store itself, but it is a thing that's made possible by its policies on generating and selling keys on other stores.Alright I think I fixed all the inaccuracies in the sheet mentioned by members here, also fixed it in the OP.
