Popularized DRM and made it so that you can't play pirated games online anymore

you have to be 18 to post here

ideally, developing and selling video games would get globally illegalized for 20 years, long enough for games to be good again.

>Tfw mommy doesn't buy you a $3000 PC so you have to cope with your PS4 Pro

It's the only reason you can play counter strike on something else than a console now. PC gaming was dying.

>not actually owning what you buy
>not having physical control over your games
>the DLC jew

Honestly I got steam and only downloaded one game desu.
It was port royal 3 and I couldn't leave a review because it was $4.95
Maybe I'm missing something

Bro kids in rural kyrgestan are still playing CS:go on windows xp's at internet cafes smoking cigarettes and eating chow mien.

We have forgotten the glory that was LAN

What the fuck? I love Steam now

There’s people on this board that have paid real money for a hat in team fortress 2 and a weapon skin in csgo

Steam isn’t going bankrupt any time soon and they don’t restrict access to games you bought (assuming you aren’t doing illegal shit with your account) because they don’t want to be seen as an unreliable storefront. The piracy scene will never die so you can always torrent back-up installs if you’re worried about losing your games. I’d be much more worried if I was a console gamer because consoles are a closed platform with poor BC and many physical releases don’t even include the full game or patches due to memory limits.

it's the same sort of zoomer aids who keep shilling fall guy.

I completely understand your frustration about the consumer-rights pitfalls of digital distribution, but
>Shoves facebook tier shit into your face at every opportunity.
this part is hardly true at all. Set the Library tab as the default under Interface settings, and disable community content under Library settings; that will get rid of most of what you don't want to see. If you still think Steam is shoving too much shit in your face, just use Small Mode, and the Steam interface will be reduced to a simple list of games. Nobody forces you to look at anything.

Besides, I can't really be mad at Steam even for popularizing digital distribution, for two reasons:
1. Digital distribution was coming anyway. Imagine if Origin had been first on the market instead of Steam. It could have been worse.
2. Valve has contributed immensely to Linux gaming, and while you might not think Linux gaming is viable yet, it's already good enough that lots of people have completely switched over, and it's still improving. You can thank Valve's fuckloads of money for the fact that you have a realistic alternative to Windows 10.

Shut up. Ur bored. Get a life and friends.

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also lootboxes

You need friends to use LAN features, user

True but I much prefer it over shit like Starforce or those limited installs/activation back in the day.

>assuming you don't do illegal shit with your account
Or get accused of being racist or sexist or some other thought crime.

>tfw you're old enough to remember when people hated steam

feels good

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Hey motherfucker, you're not supposed to point obvious stuff. We retards do not know how to use settings and we're not going to use them because if we do then we can't bash Steam, so your argument doesn't count.

Valve's games are easy to pirate and to play online on pirate servers.

I like Steam because 99.9999% of games that come out on it are instantly cracked effortlessly. Shit on Origin, Epic, Uplay, whatever else are often uncracked for months and months these days. But as soon as steam gets sloppy seconds, BAM I can torrent and play it effortlessly

DRM was even worse before Steam, you had to insert the disc to boot up a game

Steam user since 2003 here. Anyone who has been on steam since the beginning knows it was always garbage, it's the literal zoomers that praise it as something special.

OP is literally 100% correct in his post though, especially about the facebook tier fucking faggotry that goes on. Oh yeah, not to mention steam has been caught twice sending your DNS cache to it, and if you use their browser you better believe they are getting that data, along with who knows what else.

how do i become a pirate chad

i tried once and it literally opened steam and sent me to the purchasing screen

t. zoomers

>Popularized DRM and made it so that you can't play pirated games online anymore.
oh noooooooo :(((

> Steam quite literally saved PC gaming

PC gaming was never dying, it's actually dying now because of all the SHIT games

Because you didn't apply crack? Or downloaded uncracked game that was for people to not wait for steam's download?

Tienanmen Square and free Hong Kong, Chang.

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>>Popularized DRM and made it so that you can't play pirated games online anymore.
>that you can't play pirated games online anymore.
>anymore.
Uhh, user, were you alive in the 90s? There were these things called CD keys. You'd have them like on the back of your game manual or on something else within the game packaging. When you installed the game, you needed to enter your CD key. I've literally bought 3 copies of SC:BW because of lost keys and needing to re-install the game. Oh, and while you could always pirate the game still and play offline, if you tried to go online they'd check your CD key and see if you were using a legit game or not.
This was way before steam was even fucking thought of.