Goodbye Steam

[Dean Winchester]

The future of abandonment of Windows 7, the woke moderation of the discussions, the Jester/award farming (which has led to tons of trolling & bait on the discussions, a clear example of incompetent decision-making by the developers), the anti-consumer DRM policies (including increasingly ubiquitous Denuvo), the fact that I'm forced to download updates that I may not want (such as the Skullgirls situation), and, worst of all, the malfunction of the back button & awful new UI that I can't opt out of... is why I'm finally moving over to GoG and/or physical copies for consoles.

And before you say something, I have 247 games in my library and have been using Steam since 2011, when TF2 going free got me into it. I haven't bought any game here for months, and nor do I intend to ever again. I'm not interested in paying for temporary digital licenses. Quite frankly, I am ashamed to have been doing it for so long.

Valve has fallen. Goodbye.

[Leader of the Zakonistians]

Origineel geplaatst door DeadPhoenix:

Don't worry you'll be back.
Also I'm a Windows 11 user :)

Yeah, he'll be back. Who can compete with Steam?

[Lixire #Birthday!]

>"Valve has fallen. Goodbye."
But the same happened with Windows 98 in 2007, the same happened with Windows XP and Vista in 2019 and it will happen with 7 and 8.1

The tech world keeps on moving and supporting old obsolete stuff is being a burden for the developers and ends up hurting everyone else in the process.

[eram]

27,203,801
PEAK ONLINE

24,269,017
ONLINE NOW

those are the millions on steam so yeah not fallen, actually the opposite. Rising. Steam is rising.

[Dean Winchester]

Origineel geplaatst door Leader of the Zakonistians:

Origineel geplaatst door DeadPhoenix:

Don't worry you'll be back.
Also I'm a Windows 11 user :)

Who can compete with Steam?

A service that give you a greater degree of ownership over your purchases, rather than giving you access to temporary licenses. AKA GOG.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Origineel geplaatst door Eat the bugs:

Origineel geplaatst door Leader of the Zakonistians:

Who can compete with Steam?

A service that give you a greater degree of ownership over your purchases, rather than giving you access to temporary licenses. AKA GOG.

And the concern of lack of DRM and piracy abilities makes it lesser accepted by many Devs, so it's a choice of simply "not playing" a good number of games.

[Crazy Tiger]

Origineel geplaatst door Eat the bugs:

Origineel geplaatst door Leader of the Zakonistians:

Who can compete with Steam?

A service that give you a greater degree of ownership over your purchases, rather than giving you access to temporary licenses. AKA GOG.

Yes, they're so great at competing that they're still a niche player.

Don't get me wrong, I love GoG for their work on making older games work on modern hardware. But their own policies are the bottleneck to becoming a larger player. They're great as a supplemental store, but not as a main one.

[Tito Shivan]

The effect of W7 abandonment has been greatly overestimated (They've gone through this dance so many times already)
If the 'woke' moderation is enough to make you leave, well... Be our guest (If anything actual moderation have made the place more welcoming for the gang who love to poke at woke-this-woke-that and made toxicity increase overall)

Almost everything else is up to the developers and publishers. So you're going to find it outside of Steam too.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Origineel geplaatst door Eat the bugs:

Goodbye Steam

You posted this about 2 days ago and have been playing games and online ever since. So much for "goodbye" lol.

Origineel geplaatst door Eat the bugs:

Valve has fallen. Goodbye.

My goodness what a drama queen "Valve has fallen" no bud it hasn't. Valve is actually doing pretty great, very much onward & upward. It's time to grow up man you sound really childish and ridiculous. If you don't want to use Steam anymore that's fine no one is making you use it but to make this lame little goodbye post is a pretty weak move. I'm guessing you were hoping for some sympathy, some commiseration from like minded individuals? Oof

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Origineel geplaatst door Eat the bugs:

Origineel geplaatst door Leader of the Zakonistians:

Who can compete with Steam?

A service that give you a greater degree of ownership over your purchases, rather than giving you access to temporary licenses. AKA GOG.

You don't own anything on any platform. It doesn't exist anymore and it hasn't existed for quite a while, decades actually. As far as digital video games go, anyway. If you don't think that GOG uses a license, then you are not reading their TOS correctly.

Every platform uses a limited license. Why do they call it limited? Because it's limited based on certain factors. One of those factors? Keeping your PC up to date.

[Realigo Actual]

Goodbye man!

I bid you a very fond farewell.

Take this picture of my junk dressed up like a potato dressed up like a WW1 fighter pilot (the little red scarf is cashmere) and remember me fondly.

[Paratech2008]

Does GOG Galaxy run on Win 7 or previous? I'm using Win 10, just curious.

IIRC, Galaxy doesn't.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Origineel geplaatst door Paratech2008:

Does GOG Galaxy run on Win 7 or previous? I'm using Win 10, just curious.

IIRC, Galaxy doesn't.

It doesn't.

[Chelle]

It is irrelevance.
I ask with sincerity and no patronising are you hungry? Do you have a room to lock with a bed in it?
Are you safe from bombs and missiles and destruction?

If you answered hose questions of the unexpected no room and yes., then your priorities are askew my friend.

[miakisfan]

You have all the right to feel the way you do. I'd be mad if someone did something that was in opposition the the way I felt as well.

In this case, however, I wholeheartedly agree with what Steam is doing if only for the fact that when Windows 7 stops getting supported so does the support from security updates. If someone hacks Windows 7 post stoppage and gets control of Steam what does Valve do then? What would you do?

Sorry but anyone who believe Steam is doing the wrong thing here when they would protect themselves in the same situation is simply not right and might be doing both themselves AND Steam a favor by leaving instead of doing the next right thing and upgrading to protect themselves AND Steam so not only they could enjoy Steam BUT Steam can enjoy the protections that go along with giving you what you enjoy most ... games.

I continue to say that eventually this will happen to me when Windows 10 receives the same treatment. If I want to continue to enjoy the games I purchased here I will do the next right thing and move along to something that gives both Steam and me the protection we both need AND deserve.

At the end of the day losing one person isn't really going to hurt Steam any and it will be only your loss. Even if all those folk with Windows 7 quit Steam I'd be willing to bet it won't hurt them all that bad in the long run.

Some choices you have no real choice in. That's reality.

[DylanGayGenius]

Bro it's not that serious. Just update; you're like, 2 or three iterations of Windows late.