Why is the western games industry trying to take down Steam?

Why is the western games industry trying to take down Steam?

Why do they hate the consumers' universally preferred PC marketplace so much?

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It's the opposite: Steam has inflicted untold damage to the PC marketplace for most than a decade and finally both consumers and developers are fighting back.

They all want consoomers to use THEIR store front so they don't have to pay that 30%.
No, they don't want to pay 12% either, why would they want to do that?

I'm so glad we got uplay, origin and fortnite launcher.
Without them fixing PC gaming we wouldnt have games at all!

>consumers are fighting back
In what way? Explain what consumers are doing to fight back. Something that actually benefits, you know, the consumer.

reminder that you don't actually own your steam games

>consumers are fighting back
user...fortnite kids and poorfags grabbing free games aren't consumers..

Because Valve are evil jews who wants to kill off gaming with their abominable games as a service policies. Never forget that Valve invented P2W and lootboxes.

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Jealousy and money.

>Why is the western games industry trying to take down Steam?

Because the Epic Games Store is the vehicle they can use to convince customers to use their own company's garbage launcher because if they're putting their games on their own store and Epic's, they're still giving a 'choice' and they all know what that choice will be. If the game were on Steam everyone would just buy there since it's better and they'd have to take a profit hit

>Why is the western games industry trying to take down Steam?
They want a piece of the cake.
>Why do they hate the consumers' universally preferred PC marketplace so much?
I don't use Steam.

>Bee fuck is still posting his own screencaps
Don't you have a shitty patreon to shill?

Consumers are fighting back by not buying on Steam.

Steam doesn't benefit the consumer:
It created a monopoly on the PC market to the point that (until recently) if you refused to pay Gabe's extortion fee you may as well not exist.
Steals a 30% that could be used to make a better, bigger game
It forced consumers to use always-online DRM
The launcher is nothing but bloat
It welcomed politics and censorship into the gaming landscape

Valve is to PC what Sony is to consoles.

Maldraw knows better than a trillion valveshills.

consumers are pretty objectively buying on Steam

They think they have a novel idea to introduce competition in this space. Considering Epic, I don't think they figured it out yet. Valve was lucky to be one of the first to tap into the market. Steam is basically the standard now, and everyone else has to compete over scraps and nitpicks because no one really knows better.

the truth is steam is the most consumer friendly store, and it's pretty much the center of gaming industry
the jews and cucks who sold themselves for money are running this narrative, so they can monopolize gaming and milk gamers

>steam is the most consumer friendly store
You couldn't speak a bigger lie if you tried. EGS is the most consumer friendly store on account of it not being bloatware.

MMMMOOOONEEEEYYYYYYYY

>on account of it not being bloatware.

Doesn't the EGS use even more resources to idly run than Steam?

Now this. This is a jest.

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by "bloatware" he means "has a lot of features that some might see as superfluous."

Like a shopping cart.

>does what everyone else is doing
>Gayben is destroying the industry!
Kill yourself, Tim. Go put another icepack on your fragile ego after Google forced you to lick the boot

No it doesn't. The EGS launcher doesn't consume more resources than the average Windows toolbar.
The Steam launcher is pretty infamous for tanking systems by clicking on the wrong section.

Brought us back from piracy hellhole of 2008-2012, during which we didn't get anything, not even half-assed ports
Gave us regional pricing across the world with a click of a button while maintaining an option for original language
Created Big Picture and Proton, both of which gave us more options to how and where we play
But of course you are a zoomer who doesn't remember the dark times of SecureRom and StarForce.

>by clicking on the wrong section.

So you mean by utilizing features of Steam that the EGS doesn't have? Things that wouldn't be active when playing a game, thus impacting performance less?

Friendly reminder that Steamniggers are the worst userbase in gaming, way before anything else.

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Because Western companies always do business the dirty way

>Steals a 30% that could be used to make a better, bigger game
xbox, playstation and nintendo also take 30% why is it only wrong when steam does it?

It's literally what happened, retard. After refunds got introduced sales went to absolute shit. I though I was missing summer and winter sale of 2011 but oh boy do I miss flash and daily deals now.

They aren't, Steam just takes a fuck huge cut of profit.

>Those three men rape children so it's okay if I do it too.

>Screencapping blatant sarcasm as 'proof' of fanboys
>Filename showing that you weren't even around when the screencap first originated

Away newfag

Because western "gaming" has largely been infiltrated and taken over by leftists. They see a kindred spirit in things like communist China, so will happily support them. Look at the world around you and see the damaging influence on people, institutions and even entire nations that they're having. Their ultimate goal is to destroy the west; you just have to be willing to open your eyes.

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>Screencapping blatant sarcasm as 'proof' of fanboys
That isn't sarcasm you mongoloid retard, that's how Steamfags unironically behaved back then.

I'd rather have refunds than flash sales

don't get baited by the obvious retard.
As if consumers get anything other than shit in their face from that.

Where's the price drop from not taking 30% on muh epic for starters?

>developer wants money
>someone is offering money to use their services
>developer accepts it

Valve is, simply put, an awful company that doesn't make video games. Why should they be rewarded money for running Steam when they're not making video games? Ideally, Valve shouldn't take cuts from selling third party games on Steam if they're not making video games.

30% is industry standard. Even Tim had to accept it to get Fortnite on the Google Play store. Never mind that Steam's cut is considerably LESS than the cut taken from physical games.

>sarcasm

>Consumers are fighting back by not buying on Steam
Do you see anyone buying anything on EGS that isn't exclusives?

False equivalence.

>that's how Steamfags unironically behaved back then.

But you weren't there

they literally released Alyx this year

>No it doesn't. The EGS launcher doesn't consume more resources than the average Windows toolbar.
Also two-factor code takes literally 5 minutes to arrive. It's instant with Steam.

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why arent you complaining about xbox, playstation and nintendo taking 30%?

>remote play
>family sharing
>network built in for indies
>green-light
>guides
>communities
>workshop
>regional pricing
>sales
>free games
>wishlist
>shopping cart
>marketplace
imagine hating these unironically

VR barely functions as video games. Alyx only counts by the loosest definition, and even then, VR is not video games.

they're not buying exclusives either

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I pirate every single game I play. Never will let valve get a cent from me

Suck it gaben

Epic Games Store has regional pricing, sales and free games.
>green-light
Dead.
>workshop
There's nothing that has fucked more GOG users than the Steam Workshop.

Easy answer. It's always the same group of people.

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why?

No they aren't. Consumers are moving to the EGS because Steam has no future.

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Based. Fuck Gabe Newell, that obese pile of garbage. I pray for his bankruptcy.

now comment on the rest

REVENUE, not profit, retard. And the majority of that was from Fortnite

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