Steam is the only software/company I use that hasn’t enshitified and gotten worse over time.
Steam is the only software/company I use that hasn’t enshitified and gotten worse over time.
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Seriously…
Youtube, Reddit, Amazon, google and apple play stores, windows, discord, twitter, literally everything is a giant money grab or shoving subscriptions down your throat.
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Steam has only gotten better. Family is out of beta and is fantastic. You have the Steam Deck OLED which is…perfect. The refund policy. They are just such a good company. It’s refreshing.
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I am immediately annoyed anytime I need to buy something from amazon, or look for an app that doesn’t have a shitty subscription or baked with ads.
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I have to use a firefox extension to revert reddit back to new.reddit because the new new reddit sucks so bad. Brain rot.
Youtube I have to use a Tamper Monkey script to put the layout back to how it used to be with comments below the video and suggested videos on the side.
GOG is cool too
Steam is just solid in every way. Boots fast. Has a great overlay and browser, chat, and is really customisable (in terms of libraries etc).
And what might be the reason? The person in the picture is part of the answer; Valve is not publicly owned.
Remember, you die a hero or you live long enough to become a villain. Gabe isnt so young anymore, i wouldnt be surprised if he retires in the next decade and the company collapses.
Forums are horrible. Trolling is at a all time high
Unfortunately it did in a way, it’s regional prices are a joke after COVID
don’t jinx it man
As we say in my country: anulo mufa.
Roughly translates to don’t fucking jinx it you moron.
I’d argue the steam client has gotten worse but each to their own.
Still a fantastic service.
Indeed. Steam has been steadily improving their service over the years.
KDE Plasma and linux have been getting better. And probably for the same reason. Not controlled by shareholders.
Only thing it is lacking from a usability standpoint is more dynamic scaling of the UI. I’d really appreciate if I could zoom the interface in like chrome or firefox does, or at least get it to utilize more of the screen without modifying the zoom level in all of windows.
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
OP is that you ?
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I really wish more companies followed Steam’s example. Steam tries to provide a good service and ends up printing money. Everyone else tries to print money and ends up creating garbage.
Steam has mostly turned your brain inside out, I remind you that you made fun of Ubisoft with their “the games do not belong to you” while it is exactly the same thing with Steam.
You pay the same price as physical games, but without being able to sell them, or exchange them, rather than solving the problems of people who use a VPN to buy games in Argentina and Turkey, Steam preferred to change the price of these stores to $, so they can no longer buy games without spending 40% of their salary for their purchase.
Steam is a monopoly, and you are so stupid that you are falling for their “gamer family”
give it time.
But the store brought in those curators or content creators or cunts or whatever they’re called.
If you could check a box “don’t show me cunts and their cunt opinions and cunt artwork” and it’d morph right back to a simple store I’d be fine with Steam.