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It begs the question: Is this the downfall of steam?
by unixhero 2y ago
It begs the question: Is this the downfall of steam?
- oefrha 2y agoNo, even completely pulling out of Russia wouldn’t be the downfall of Steam. But I don’t know how this is related to my comment, which is response to a puzzling comment claiming that Steam has nothing to do with Steam account bans, and moreover people should be thankful for their leniency wrt refunds.
- iamacyborg 2y agoWhy would it be? Gamers literally rush to defend the platform when competitors appears and they have effectively a captive audience as games aren’t portable to other launchers.
- londons_explore 2y ago> Gamers literally rush to defend the platform Could also be an effective paid PR team. Just because 'everyone' on the internet appears to have one opinion doesn't mean it's real.
- iamacyborg 2y agoSure, but in this case the noise was loud enough and widespread enough that I suspect it wasn’t.
- pjerem 2y agoEveryone also have a good opinion on Steam IRL around me . In my case I’m seating between two chairs. Steam is a good product, they have mostly respectable policies and I’m happy to "do business" with them but I can’t really forget that their DRM is everywhere, that I don’t own my games and that, say, Google also used to "not be evil". I love Steam today but what will happen of my games collection when Valve’s infinite money printing machine will start to fail ?
- kentm 2y agoThis is why I generally tried to support physical games that are playable on release. But that is a losing battle. It’s still likely that I can drop in a brand new PS5 or Switch game and play it with no network connection, but I expect that to rapidly change in the next five years. This is pretty much not possible on PC anymore outside of outliers.
- Hamuko 2y agoBanning some thousand Russian and Belarussian accounts? No.