And yet here is Gabe who has helmed the company that only recently has done DLC level quality games, refused to listen to the Team Fortress community to help and save it from bots until it was too late
This begs the question, is Steam begotten of Gaben or is Gaben begotten of Steam? According to my view we need to look inwards to find that Valves essence flows trough all of us, Steam is not created and neither are we, we are not seperate from Gabens exalted glory. All of us can access his sales and goon to art of our favourite games characters on his community discussions, beacuse we are all part of one greater whole, which emanates from Gaben.
Even Nvidia realized people don't want a needless account. Their new Nvidia App that replaces GeForce Experience and Nvidia Control Panel doesn't require an account like GE.
I fucking hate that I have to give nvidia my personal information, just to download drivers to keep my card up to date... so glad they got rid of that shit and dont force me to use some shady third party client anymore.
@@Foxfire_forty-nine there is definitely both advantages and disadvantages to their philosophy. As a CS gamer I know exactly how you feel, we have basically felt semi ignored since the very beginning, since before steam. I remember feeling like 1.6 and steam was the final nail in the coffin, the total display of that they dont care about any input from the community. And here we are 20 years later. But at the same time im looking at most other companies like this and im not sure it is worth it throwing endless millions after 100 staff to be tumbling over each other.
@Foxfire_forty-nine team fortress 2 is like 16 years* old and on an outdated engine. the game has a low playercount compared to its peak and valve is working on newer team based shooters like deadlock. move on.
There is a reason why steam has a functional monopoly. They're literally just the best service since realistically its either steam, steam, steam, or GOG
@andrewgreeb916 well and GOG has its own market with people like me who want DRM free versions of games. I no longer purchase games on Steam and have re-bought many games on GOG so I can keep them forever.
11:30 This is absolutely paramount. I cant stand developers forcing me to sign up to their launcher/service to play the game I already bought and installed, especially when its mostly single player (I'm looking at you Creative Assembly). The launcher is literally NOTHING except an advertising hub, and these companies have data breaches ALL THE TIME. I don't want my data at risk for no other reason than than for them to advertise to me on my own computer.
Valve is playing the added value meta, while others are playing the cutting costs, lies, and ripping off customers meta. Some little things that make you slightly less mad about the markup.
I mean, if companies want to cut cost all they have to do is fire all the middle section of the company. Companies have a lot of redundant and functionally unneeded positions. Like why do you need a lead tech, a supervisor, a manager, an operations manager, a COO, and CEO. You can get rid of the manager and make the lead tech position the supervisor position and cut a huge cost to the company. There are other examples of middle management being unnecessary and cost ineffective
@@teamofone1219 30% is fair to have most of the payment process done for you and being in the hotspot of the gaming market where millions are active every day. Try selling without steam and see how much your product will suffer for it.
@teamofone1219 while providing far worse experience for consumers. Steam earns their cut with their service. Don't like it, go kick rocks and try to sell somewhere else.
Opening a Ubisoft game in Steam just for it to open again in the Ubi launcher is even worse than COD asking you to relaunch the game every single time due to an "update"
to be fair, steam is the third party launcher in that situation. you can just launch the game from ubisofts launcher, since its the first party launcher.
@@jormungand72 that launcher is terrible but if that’s the case then don’t list the game on steam just make ppl get the game on the ubi launcher… but they know ppl rather have it on steam because the ubi launcher is terrible lol
EA does this too and the extra shitty part is you can pick the launch monitor on Steam but a game that starts its own launcher overrides that and goes for the primary monitor and fucks up my setup. 😑
Then dont buy it on Steam. People, mostly older gamers really cant get over the fact that Steam is just a store front for many games, and because of the whole I DONT LIKE CHANGE they refuse to download other launchers or "platforms" but then I wont get my achievements on Steam, or my few friends from 20+ years ago wont know what game I am playing.
The fact that Valve heavily invests developer time to develop for Linux in order to make Steam Deck (and Linux as a desktop) compete with Windows on gaming, is proof enough that we must protecc Gabe.
Any game sold on Steam that ALSO requires you to make an additional EXTERNAL account not associated with Steam should either (1) be prohibited / (2) NOT be sold on Steam at all. I love Marvel’s Spider-Man on Steam, but the fact that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 requires you to have a PS account? Like… why?? It’s a SINGLE PLAYER GAME. Aside from the “optics” of “look at how many new PS accounts were made when we did this thing”, there’s literally ZERO reason for me to have to make a PS account as a Steam player
@@OlafsLeftArm eh, no? It's their store and they're the ones to make rules for everyone else, also you don't have to open additional launcher when you play Dota, CS or HL. Everyone would just breath clearer without those launchers. Also nobody talks about removing accounts, only launchers, you don't need a launcher to give player an option of creating account in the game published on Steam.
What I love about Steam is that they refund your money pretty quickly without issues if you buy a buggy game and report it. Developers also reply to you to make their games better. With Sony and EA it is impossible to get a refund for a faulty product they are selling and they don't care
I ordered the Starfield Digital Deluxe Edition quite early (yeah, i know now that "modern"Bethesda sucks even bigger d...) played it around 340 hours (of which actually over 160 hours were only for getting around the insane amount of game-breaking bugs and after not getting bored of not achieving anything worthwhile with this game i ordered a refund from steam. I mailed them the exact timestamps at which i encountered the 272 bugs (i'm quite pedantic about that), my completely fruitless discussions with bethesda customer service and the intent to sue them for selling an unworking, unfinished article. I got my complete refund, were allowed to keep the "game" and got a 50€ steam code for my account as an apology Steam really is covering the backs of their customers
I was annoyed when Steam came out though. Offline mode isn't necessarily offline. I miss the days of going to program files and selecting the game. Their launcher spams me now with pop-ups I don't want my kids seeing, even if it opens in family mode.
OO Beat me to the time stamp. But I was going to say something more vitriolic like "club bioterrorist that runs on bribes and false flags usually does not concern themselves with the crimes or misleading of fellow club members, happy people are strong and they don't like that".
@@TheSolidSnakeOil Yeah? Narrative stories with gameplay elements are probably one of my favorite genres. Especially if they're based on real events or have a source of non-fiction.
@@OlafsLeftArm didn’t they just recently hike their prices cus of the BO6? I remember that caught huge backlash because they did that prior to the BO6 release 💀
@@jesusrivera2970 Even with 11.99€ what it costs here now you get your moneys worth if you play at least one new big game or two small games per month. Only value in Steam is if you want to hoard your game collection and with higher chance ensure you can get back to old games.
@OlafsLeftArm gamepass sucks for perusing and picking a new game to play. Clicking through tabs and links, instead of just scrolling to collect info is so clumsy and tedious. Their interface needs work. 9/10 times I'm opening steam to find a new game
It's actually scary thinking of what the gaming industry would look like without Steam - at best, Ubisoft and similar greedy corpos could've gotten away with tons and tons of things that people didn't get into because there was an alternative platform for gaming. At worst, imagine Ubisoft, or again, similar corps owning the main platform for game distribution. Games would be 100$ at minimum with tons of mtx. We also wouldn't be able to fight against bad games by simply not buying them, because they would be pushing them harder then ever and sabotaging the competition by not allowing them to sell on their platform or whatever. Thank you Gabe for giving the gaming industry a fighting chance, and for allowing indie devs an easy way to profit.
You can literally bankrupt billionaires if you dont buy their products. Well, not you personally, but a million of you's can. Even if Steam is gone one day, everyone normal just has to not buy anything and thats it. The bad and the good thing is that companies dont care about you, but they care about their investors. If you dont buy, their shares go down and investors get angry, pull their money out and if its drastic enough that company goes bye bye. So even if steam is gone and lets say epic or ubisoft take steams place, just dont buy anything and theyll go down.
Some people don't usually think before they buy. The biggest example I can think of is the yearly release of COD. A lot of casual people tend to not care about the prices of the game so they just buy it. It can be a little bit of a problem if you can't convince other people and say "hey, don't buy it because it's bad". But then again, I could be wrong tho.
I laughed really hard around the 14:30 mark when he's talking about paying to be the product. "That's like having a cover charge to get inside the slaughterhouse!"
Good on Steam not to use legal speak to avoid accountability but taking things into their own hands to protect consumers. Gabe might need to buy Game Awards so they can be redeemed.
Steam has established itself as the go-to platform for PC gaming. They've got the audience, the infrastructure, and the data. Publishers are at the mercy of Steam's policies because where else are they going to go? Epic Games Store? Please. Steam knows it holds the cards.
unfortunately not everyone is smart enough to realize that valve is not at fault for what publishers decide to do, this is steam protecting themselves from the dummies.
11:36 You know what they are gonna do if you add that condition? They program around it. You can only save your game if you log in. You can only access certain missions if you log in. It has to vanish completely or this won't work.
Game publishers and developers need to be kept in check. They love to forget their place. Our customer rights must be protected above all else and we must hold ALL the power. Otherwise we get developers stealing our games, lying on Steam and treating infinite digital keys as a limited FOMO resource. If even Humble Bundle buyers are blue balled for months, you think regular Steam users are any safe? Devs/publishers should stop complaining and obey Steam.
I despise how many hoops I have to jump through just to update my graphics drivers. In the past you could just download it from the website, now you have to make an account, install the program and it's absurd. Even my headphones tried to do this. I have an arctis headset and in the past you could just install a program to manage the levels, lighting, save profiles and many other things. Now the program removed over half of the options and locked the rest behind another account that was further locked even after that just to do what the previous version of the software did. Thankfully I found the links to the older version of the software that still supports my headset.
It's been a year since i built my last PC and spent much time on drivers, but then I just ignored all the apps and installers and just searched up the websites to get the drivers i needed. Didn't have any issues. The apps can provide better automated checking to warn you about updates or keep things automatically updated, but you could also just bookmark the sites and browse once in a while.
No the rule is that you all of the dlcs have to be purchasable by it's self and not where you have to be purchased a bundle or something like that to get it
EA REMOVED MY SIMS 2 ULTIMATE COLLECTION FROM MY LIBRARY DESPITE THE FACT THAT I HAD BOUGHT THE COMPLETE CD'S YEARS AGO AND DECIDED THAT THESE WOULDN'T BE WORKING ANYMORE, SO NOW I HAVE NOTHING LEFT 😢😢😢 THAT'S JUST DISGUSTING!!!!
wait till baldy finds out that problem with avatar game is the problem with ALL ubisoft games. you HAVE to have their fucking LAUNCHER not just an account.
7:48 that’s massive, holy shit. If your game is shit/doesn’t sell well, and you roped people into preemptively buying DLC that ends up never happening (on Steam), you have to give people’s money back. Integrity level 100. Thank you GabeN. Please never leave Valve.
"Season Pass needs to have at least ONE DLC included". This will be their first move, easy clap. An Empty Season Pass, with one cosmetic item as DLC lol.
12:47 it's not impossible for external companies to link steam account as an identity, but they want to collect your data to market their games to you. That's because until you have an account with them, you are Steam's customer, not theirs.
The correct way to describe 'misinformation' is pretty much 'information that doesn't support the overlord's narrative'. Honestly, I would suggest to stop using those terms altogether. They practically didn't exist until within a single week's time they were spread throughout every western country. Basically all of the regulated media started using the terms and now people think they've always been around. I paid pretty good attention and I very much noticed that this same strategy was used for many things. Have many media outlets along with the government introduce a term of concept, then repeat it with many different 'sources' in many different ways to really hammer it in the head it a short time. Doesn't work for someone like me who stops to think about things like that, but it's very effective for the people who just mindlessly consume without actually thinking about it.
@@thenonexistinghero If you've ever seen one of those montages where 100's of news channels all use the exact same quote you realize it's all a coordinated psyop to change public opinion on whatever they want, to program you.
For anyone that doesn't believe consumers have power, remember the 1st trailer for the 1st Sonic movie, and how they were bullied into redoing Sonic's design
Reminds me of when I always see people blaming GGG for something they don't like on the POE PS5 console client when it's obviously something that Sony is responsible for or not allowing to happen.
Every company wants you to make an account, even if it doesnt make sense for the product, because its a way of harvesting and selling more of the user's data. Why else would you need to provide your email, full legal name, birth date, etc to play a single player game or change the color of the blinky lights on your mouse.
Regarding the requirement of third-party accounts, that's one of the very few good things about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The game doesn't require an EA App account, or the launcher, to play the game. I wish more developers/publishers do the same.
I 100% agree. A new account is not needed when purchasing on Steam Anti-Consumer Shout out to STEAM - Gamers Vote With Their Wallets - Thanks for having our Back
4:26 This industry has created the problem they should pay for it. If they sell data they should pay into a free take down service for all. Either that or just make it illegal to sell personal data with out the express permission of the person. No opt out. opt in.
YES THIS! MAKE IT A RULE that if you sell your game on steam you can not require, need or demand the installation of another platform. Tom Clancy's splinter cell blacklist does this very same thing. If I wanted to buy the game on their lousy Ubisoft or EA platform I'd have bought it there but I don't want that ish on my pc. It's either entirely on steam or or not. Steam is not mean to be an advertising front front for some other corporation and especially not get their foot in the door through sneaky sleazy way. Some big names like Asmon should use their clout to bring this MASSIVE problem to attention and get it fixed.
One of the main complaints from Tekken8 players is that the people that purchased the over 100 USD, super premium version that supposedly contained ALL available purchasable content, had content like whole stages taken out of the package. For context, this is how it worked in Tekken 7 and how it continues to happen with the competition like SF6, you buy the premium pass, you get the characters, secondary suits and the stages but BAMCO is now trying to double dip on their highest paying costumers by retroactively changing what the premium pass entails and leaving it in ambiguous terms, so they can never really know exactly what they are getting for their money. Btw, companies demanding secondary logins is an old thing on Steam, Squeenix has been doing this for a while especially in their older games where theyd demand that you log in with your SE account in order to access a 20 year old, single player game with zero online features, its ridiculous.
if ya think about it they got slave there sure bad while everyone here is only 30% slave, then they bump it up to women 30% slave too now the harder you work the more slave you become. . . sure oversimplified but that is the truth of the matter only when ya pay yourself with tax money to pay your taxes, then take the 170k a year and make hundreds of millions while in congress, then you are the master
How are so many Twitch chatters not understanding the delay window is 3 months max, and not 6 months lol. Sure the DLC might have a release window of 3 months, but that is the window for being on time. It can only be delayed by 3 months beyond that - any Twitch chatters typing 6 months need to take some classes in critical thinking.
A developer sets a DLC on steam with a launch window of Jan-Mar. That developer communicates elsewhere, or customers receive an expectation by way of past release history, that the release will be near Jan 1. They can delay release until the end of the Apr-Jun window (June 30). There is a strictly under 6 month window in which developers can extend their expected work timeline and customers can have their expectations moved around. It is a worst-case scenario, but it makes sense to happen as a trend, which is what Asmon alluded to. Developers are necessarily aware of the difficulty of hitting these deadlines, and so will choose DLC launch times where they think they can hit the beginning, rather than the end, and utilize the widest available windows to maximize their flexibility. They may shift a release ahead or back in a season in addition to using extensions, and that can result in gaps in release expectations with size up to 6 months while being compliant with Steam's policy. If the release window was only allowed to be a singular date, then a 3 month extension would just be a 3 month maximum waiting period. Because it is also a 3 month window, you get a 6 month period where the customer has no guarantees about having either the product or their money, which is a great improvement to the previous environment. This is what people were focused on. The fact that the first 3 months are all considered "on time" by the steam standard has no substantive difference to the consumer to a 3 month "delay" period if you don't have the product delivered yet in either period. TLDR if you tell someone you'll give them something in Q1 with the option to delay to Q2 you have given yourself 6 months of time to deliver, not 3. If a developer under these steam guidelines tells you DLC release is Q1, you now have a maximum of 6 months in which to check for releases before expecting a refund.
That's because you can advertise in seasons. If they miss the end of Fall 2024, the extension is essentially the end of Winter 2025. Thus, "6 months max". It naturally depends on the original release date but people are naturally putting themselves in the shoes of publisher who overpromises but underdelivers. Steam is kinda forcing devs to be in the motion of developing the DLC rather than having it on the listing and fully greenlighting it when they have enough pre--orders/sales.
How do you “not understand” the fact that At percentage x to y, it is a certain rating At percentage a to b, it is a different rating It really couldn’t be more simple
@@alexsmith6322 You didn't understand what I was suggesting. That 71% should not be 'mostly positive' for a shit game like D4. 80%+ should be 'mostly positive'. 70-79 should be like 'Modest/passable/okay' at best.
Steam proved, by knowing the incentive levers, why government agencies shouldn't be involved in this. Valve had the incentive and valve knew what to do. A faceless government agent has no idea the lever much less the incentive
Man says no one cares about being a "good person"... Man also says that if your business needs to resort to predatory business tactics to make money maybe your business model isn't viable and you don't deserve to make money... "Mr. Madison, please choose the next topic." "I choose Business Ethics."
I believe what people are saying is a piece of season pass content can have a release date of "Jan to Mar" (3 month window) when the DEV originally planned for it to release Jan. So if they miss that Jan date, they still have 3 months to finish it. Then if they still haven't finished it they have an additional 3 months or 6 months total, but only in this specific scenario. TLDR: They can set a 3 month release window and they have 3 months to release the content at the end of the window, then refunds happen.
The cycle of abuse applies to any relationship, including a consumer and the company. That's why people keep coming back to these companies that let them down.
13:39 I agree I don't think it should be mandatory but the benefit is that now my profiles are able to chase me no matter which keyboard or device I get from them. I don't have to sit there re-configuring my settings or at least too much depending on the model. It's the easiest way to flip between the gear they sell and if something were to cause me to re-configure my OS or had to re-install the app it's just a login away from me being back up.
I have a hunch that you have to make an account for SO MANY different things because as soon as you make an account with something then they can legally gather data on you that can be sold.
Imagine if they de-listed the Half Life series from the Steam store because the “Structure of the game and marketing implied access to an entry after the second and before the fourth, which has not been delivered, so all related media will be temporarily removed from the store until the delivery of such a product is completed” lmao
Glad to see they are doing more. Hate when developers like MeanDean with his Iconic Studio publisher have an early access game (Survival Africa). You support him and then he just stops. Saying he turned it over to another developer named "Roxy" because he could not continue with the game due to electrical load sharing where he lives. Except he immediately started working on a new game named Sustained. Survival Africa's last update had been Sep2022 with him posting Jun 2023 that 2 updates were coming before full release. Not a single update since Sep2022 and "Roxy" has not done a single update a year and a half later. MeanDean screams in discord that he is not the developer and bans you from discord even though days before he was telling people that asked that he was the developer. The big Early Access warning no longer shows on steam and the game is still being sold.
With regards to the 3 vs 6 month thing, it is actually 6 months. If you list a DLC releasing "Winter 2024/25" and your planned release date is the 1st of Dec 2024, then you can push it back to Feb 20th 2025 for example, and still be considered "winter 24/25". You HAVE pushed it back 3 months without needing to make any visual changes for your audience. You can then push it a FURTHER 3 months into "Spring 2025" which gives you another 3 months to play with, totalling a 6 month period for delays...
The big problem is that they sell things in game paying only with an in game premium currency that you buy with real money. This kind of transaction has not any protection or possible refund. Still "waiting" for Rockstar to solve the bugs with the Collector profession in RDO (kind of a DLC you can buy with in game premium currency). Basically, you pay for a content that is so bugged that you cannot play it if the bugs affect you. I have never bought another premium currency in any game since then.
28:00 - This happened to me at a Wendys not too long ago. I paid for a Chili and then was told a minute later that there is no chili and they'll be happy to substitute it with anything else on the menu. I asked if it was possible they could put my name on a list and I could just come back later and get it. I don't know how this works with the general populace, but the manager knows me pretty well, so I was actually able to get my chili when I stopped back by a week later.
15:00 - 3 months is not very lenient. Some game projects might even get delayed 6 months. Software can be tricky especially multiplayer online games because performance problems can be a real pain to solve.
I remember trying to play far cry 4 on steam and had to DL U play and when I closed it it also closed the game my ram was focused more on Uplay then the game or steam it was unbearable and back, then only had 4 GB of ram so steam Uplay and farcry my PC was crying
In order for valve to refund part of a season pass and not lose money, it also means they can't give that money to the devs until they release the associated DLC in the pass. Otherwise a dev sells a bunch of season passes then promptly goes out of business, where is that money coming from for the refund?
It is counter intuitive to purchase a game on one platform and have to make a separate account on a separate platform and link them just to play from the preferred platform.
They are allowed a 3 month grace period initially before valve takes action but they can apply at any point of that three month late grace period for a three month extension. Hope that helps
Steam does notify you about third party accounts being required for a game before you buy it. Tells you about third party DRM like Denuvo too. Most people just don't notice it. Look over to the right hand side in the steam store and scroll down til you see little yellow boxes. That's where they tell you about that stuff. They even mention if you have to agree to a third party EULA as well. Those warnings have been there for a long time too lol.
Two games on my Steam wishlist are no longer available for purchase, happened recently. Eden Star and Pantropy, both Early Access for a while with mixed reviews and seemed abandoned. Sadly they were seen as promising games.
So if it hits day 1 of a quarter, it can be moved to the next quarter if needed to be delayed, but doesnt specifically state which part of the quarter. So it could be stated as day 1 of a quarter, then pushed back to the end of the next quarter. So just under 6 months in total to wait for whatever content got delayed
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We need to make Gabe immortal.
And he still won't make Half life 3
I'll gather the dragon balls to wish for his immortality...
He already is.
Gamer jesus
He'll be cryogenically preserved like Walt Disney
Meanwhile Ubislop: "please hide the statistics, because otherwise we cannot hoodwink our investors along with our customers."
Also, oops sorry, you can't continue your save unless you purchase the dlc
@@stormshadow5382thank you for purchasing the dlc, also we deleted your save data. May as well start over and double your playtime by
Saying fuck you to current year game publishers should be a civic duty
And yet here is Gabe who has helmed the company that only recently has done DLC level quality games, refused to listen to the Team Fortress community to help and save it from bots until it was too late
@@Foxfire_forty-nine😂😂😂😂 this clown, would you rather have a Bobby Kotick instead of Gaben?
@@Foxfire_forty-nine Nobody is perfect, but compared to the composition Gabe is far better and actually lessens.
The morally correct thing to do.
💯
Gabe can't die, it is already foreshadowed in Portal that his flesh will turn mechanical and he will be Steam himself. Hail Gabe!
Gaben;
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh....it disgusted me"
This begs the question, is Steam begotten of Gaben or is Gaben begotten of Steam? According to my view we need to look inwards to find that Valves essence flows trough all of us, Steam is not created and neither are we, we are not seperate from Gabens exalted glory. All of us can access his sales and goon to art of our favourite games characters on his community discussions, beacuse we are all part of one greater whole, which emanates from Gaben.
Gabe is actually the Omnissiah. The machine spirit himself.
Blessed is the machine!
@@Regarded69 username checks out
protect gabe at all costs
Not until he makes Half Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3
Gaben is LIFE 🧬
Ill fear the day he passes, whoever his successor is will not be as pro consumer i believe. But gotta stay positive
Why are you everywhere
i'm afraid of what will steam transform once he dies
Even Nvidia realized people don't want a needless account. Their new Nvidia App that replaces GeForce Experience and Nvidia Control Panel doesn't require an account like GE.
I've been manually downloading drivers for years, this is huge news so thank you for sharing
I fucking hate that I have to give nvidia my personal information, just to download drivers to keep my card up to date... so glad they got rid of that shit and dont force me to use some shady third party client anymore.
Couldn't you log in with gmail account?
@@WinterDominus Yep. That's what i do.
@@WinterDominusexactly that's the point, why do I need to give them anything on my system!?
Gaben and Valve are some of the few real gamers left in the industry.
Sounds about right. Let Team Fortress 2 nearly die and refused to listen to the community until it was too late
There's TONS of Devs who still play their own games... but they're also all completely dependent on Steam as their publishing platform too
@@Foxfire_forty-nine there is definitely both advantages and disadvantages to their philosophy. As a CS gamer I know exactly how you feel, we have basically felt semi ignored since the very beginning, since before steam. I remember feeling like 1.6 and steam was the final nail in the coffin, the total display of that they dont care about any input from the community. And here we are 20 years later.
But at the same time im looking at most other companies like this and im not sure it is worth it throwing endless millions after 100 staff to be tumbling over each other.
@Foxfire_forty-nine team fortress 2 is like 16 years* old and on an outdated engine. the game has a low playercount compared to its peak and valve is working on newer team based shooters like deadlock. move on.
@@Foxfire_forty-nine i love tf2 but yeah it's old as fuck, might as well remake the entire game in source 2.
when is half life 3
There is a reason why steam has a functional monopoly. They're literally just the best service since realistically its either steam, steam, steam, or GOG
Gog has its own market that steam isn't involved in, cause old games need some help keeping up in modern hardware.
@@andrewgreeb916 exactly, if anything GOG is just following the beat of steam in keeping gaming viable.
You can’t say it’s a monopoly when there are dozens of gaming platforms. Not too long ago epic was beating them.
@andrewgreeb916 well and GOG has its own market with people like me who want DRM free versions of games. I no longer purchase games on Steam and have re-bought many games on GOG so I can keep them forever.
I'm happy with Steam for sure. No complaints
I'm worrying about Gabe getting old and one day left Steam.
He better be cultivating a suitable heir.
@@djoverkinDon't worry, his son has been learning from him. Jay will carry on his father's legacy as Jaben.
Valve's future is an acquisition from Microsoft.
I’m sure many of the developers working at steam share the same views as him.
Parasites are gonna try to steal valve
11:30 This is absolutely paramount. I cant stand developers forcing me to sign up to their launcher/service to play the game I already bought and installed, especially when its mostly single player (I'm looking at you Creative Assembly). The launcher is literally NOTHING except an advertising hub, and these companies have data breaches ALL THE TIME. I don't want my data at risk for no other reason than than for them to advertise to me on my own computer.
Valve is playing the added value meta, while others are playing the cutting costs, lies, and ripping off customers meta. Some little things that make you slightly less mad about the markup.
can Valve buy Boeing? 🥹 humanity could benefit much from that😂
@@NiJIcolaGirardIwtf are you on about, valve is a game company, they have no business buying out BOEING of all things.
@@NiJIcolaGirardI I don't think valve has anywhere where enough funds to buy a company that sells weapons to the government
I mean, if companies want to cut cost all they have to do is fire all the middle section of the company. Companies have a lot of redundant and functionally unneeded positions. Like why do you need a lead tech, a supervisor, a manager, an operations manager, a COO, and CEO. You can get rid of the manager and make the lead tech position the supervisor position and cut a huge cost to the company. There are other examples of middle management being unnecessary and cost ineffective
@@NiJIcolaGirardIapparently some dummies don't understand what's a joke is.
Gabe has once again proven why steam monopoly is the only monopoly not being questioned by its consumers
Most question steam for it’s 30% cut it takes this why we have so many launchers nowadays.
@@teamofone1219 30% is fair to have most of the payment process done for you and being in the hotspot of the gaming market where millions are active every day. Try selling without steam and see how much your product will suffer for it.
@@teamofone1219It's industry standard.
@@Cyan37 Not really when every other launcher charges way less than steam
@teamofone1219 while providing far worse experience for consumers. Steam earns their cut with their service. Don't like it, go kick rocks and try to sell somewhere else.
Well make a good product and you won’t get embarrassed. Nobody will make fun of a game that has low number but release 5 years ago
Make a good product and you get targeted by bigger corporations.
If you are not a subsidiary, you are a competition.
When Gabe does nothing, he wins.
When Gabe does something, he lays down the law.
Opening a Ubisoft game in Steam just for it to open again in the Ubi launcher is even worse than COD asking you to relaunch the game every single time due to an "update"
to be fair, steam is the third party launcher in that situation. you can just launch the game from ubisofts launcher, since its the first party launcher.
Ubisoft, Origin, Paradox, Blizzard, PSN, Microsoft...... All need accounts. You have to go with indi dev games to get away from extra log in accounts.
@@jormungand72 that launcher is terrible but if that’s the case then don’t list the game on steam just make ppl get the game on the ubi launcher… but they know ppl rather have it on steam because the ubi launcher is terrible lol
EA does this too and the extra shitty part is you can pick the launch monitor on Steam but a game that starts its own launcher overrides that and goes for the primary monitor and fucks up my setup. 😑
Then dont buy it on Steam. People, mostly older gamers really cant get over the fact that Steam is just a store front for many games, and because of the whole I DONT LIKE CHANGE they refuse to download other launchers or "platforms" but then I wont get my achievements on Steam, or my few friends from 20+ years ago wont know what game I am playing.
The fact that Valve heavily invests developer time to develop for Linux in order to make Steam Deck (and Linux as a desktop) compete with Windows on gaming, is proof enough that we must protecc Gabe.
i hope Gabes plan to be immortal is real and works
pretty sure they will downlaod his brain and upload it, GabeAI.
@@grubby55please don’t be like pebblecop
Any game sold on Steam that ALSO requires you to make an additional EXTERNAL account not associated with Steam should either (1) be prohibited / (2) NOT be sold on Steam at all.
I love Marvel’s Spider-Man on Steam, but the fact that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 requires you to have a PS account? Like… why?? It’s a SINGLE PLAYER GAME. Aside from the “optics” of “look at how many new PS accounts were made when we did this thing”, there’s literally ZERO reason for me to have to make a PS account as a Steam player
That would force Valve to remove any requirement for a Steam account in their own games. Otherwise they are misusing their competitive position.
It makes sense to require an account for multiplayer games, but for singleplayer? Yeah that's stupid.
@@OlafsLeftArm eh, no? It's their store and they're the ones to make rules for everyone else, also you don't have to open additional launcher when you play Dota, CS or HL. Everyone would just breath clearer without those launchers.
Also nobody talks about removing accounts, only launchers, you don't need a launcher to give player an option of creating account in the game published on Steam.
@@thesun9210 You are the only one in this thread talking about launchers. Use less drugs plz!
@@OlafsLeftArm yeah, i can see that now.
I fear for Steam when Gabe passes.
His son has been following his father's footsteps and learned a lot from him. Steam will be in good hands when the time comes.
@@FrahdChikun hope so.
it’s really simple, hold the next guy to the same standard or stricter
@@FrahdChikun valve kickstarting the next great monarchy
i hope your picture isn't some twisted foreshadowing
What I love about Steam is that they refund your money pretty quickly without issues if you buy a buggy game and report it. Developers also reply to you to make their games better. With Sony and EA it is impossible to get a refund for a faulty product they are selling and they don't care
How do you do that? I think they only give refunds if you have under 2 hours playtime
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they refunded everything I have wanted to refund. I try to take advantage of this system as seldom as possible.
I ordered the Starfield Digital Deluxe Edition quite early (yeah, i know now that "modern"Bethesda sucks even bigger d...) played it around 340 hours (of which actually over 160 hours were only for getting around the insane amount of game-breaking bugs and after not getting bored of not achieving anything worthwhile with this game i ordered a refund from steam. I mailed them the exact timestamps at which i encountered the 272 bugs (i'm quite pedantic about that), my completely fruitless discussions with bethesda customer service and the intent to sue them for selling an unworking, unfinished article.
I got my complete refund, were allowed to keep the "game" and got a 50€ steam code for my account as an apology
Steam really is covering the backs of their customers
When I entered Steam in 2013. I always heard the phrase, "All hail Gaben." To this day, it still lives on.
Or the phrase "Praise GabeN...and nothing else"
I was annoyed when Steam came out though. Offline mode isn't necessarily offline. I miss the days of going to program files and selecting the game. Their launcher spams me now with pop-ups I don't want my kids seeing, even if it opens in family mode.
15:43 the problem is most of the government is ran by our grandparents that are out of touch with technology.
OO Beat me to the time stamp. But I was going to say something more vitriolic like "club bioterrorist that runs on bribes and false flags usually does not concern themselves with the crimes or misleading of fellow club members, happy people are strong and they don't like that".
Gabe Newell save me from my movie 90% cutscenes game sins
And Bring BEEG YOSHI sound effect
Only if. Games like Hellblade aren't bad but Christ, I want to play a game, not watch a movie.
@@TheSolidSnakeOil Yeah? Narrative stories with gameplay elements are probably one of my favorite genres. Especially if they're based on real events or have a source of non-fiction.
MGS4 moment
Kingdom Hearts 3 is offended by that comment
Gabe N' Friends understand their fucking customers. Jesus christ its refreshing.
Valve and Steam’s service is unmatched. Microsoft and Sony can’t compete against Gaben
Game Pass is already better than Steam...
@@OlafsLeftArm didn’t they just recently hike their prices cus of the BO6? I remember that caught huge backlash because they did that prior to the BO6 release 💀
@@jesusrivera2970 Even with 11.99€ what it costs here now you get your moneys worth if you play at least one new big game or two small games per month. Only value in Steam is if you want to hoard your game collection and with higher chance ensure you can get back to old games.
@OlafsLeftArm gamepass isn't a platform/storefront though dummy 😂
@OlafsLeftArm gamepass sucks for perusing and picking a new game to play. Clicking through tabs and links, instead of just scrolling to collect info is so clumsy and tedious. Their interface needs work. 9/10 times I'm opening steam to find a new game
Studios like the Project Zomboid devs just crapped themselves. Their forever early access window thing with no end in sight is coming to an end.
It's actually scary thinking of what the gaming industry would look like without Steam - at best, Ubisoft and similar greedy corpos could've gotten away with tons and tons of things that people didn't get into because there was an alternative platform for gaming. At worst, imagine Ubisoft, or again, similar corps owning the main platform for game distribution. Games would be 100$ at minimum with tons of mtx. We also wouldn't be able to fight against bad games by simply not buying them, because they would be pushing them harder then ever and sabotaging the competition by not allowing them to sell on their platform or whatever.
Thank you Gabe for giving the gaming industry a fighting chance, and for allowing indie devs an easy way to profit.
You can literally bankrupt billionaires if you dont buy their products.
Well, not you personally, but a million of you's can.
Even if Steam is gone one day, everyone normal just has to not buy anything and thats it.
The bad and the good thing is that companies dont care about you, but they care about their investors.
If you dont buy, their shares go down and investors get angry, pull their money out and if its drastic enough that company goes bye bye.
So even if steam is gone and lets say epic or ubisoft take steams place, just dont buy anything and theyll go down.
People will buy trash though.
Some people don't usually think before they buy. The biggest example I can think of is the yearly release of COD.
A lot of casual people tend to not care about the prices of the game so they just buy it. It can be a little bit of a problem if you can't convince other people and say "hey, don't buy it because it's bad".
But then again, I could be wrong tho.
We would still have physical media on PC.
@@kainairsoft2331 definitely
I laughed really hard around the 14:30 mark when he's talking about paying to be the product. "That's like having a cover charge to get inside the slaughterhouse!"
Good on Steam not to use legal speak to avoid accountability but taking things into their own hands to protect consumers. Gabe might need to buy Game Awards so they can be redeemed.
I also hope Steam tells Ubisoft where to stick it over the "lets hide player counts" demand.
Absolutely based of Steam doing this.
Based move after based move
Steam has established itself as the go-to platform for PC gaming. They've got the audience, the infrastructure, and the data.
Publishers are at the mercy of Steam's policies because where else are they going to go? Epic Games Store? Please. Steam knows it holds the cards.
People didn’t blame steam for the helldivers fiasco
it wasnt steam's fault. its playstation's fault
????????????
Sony not Steam......
They literally refunded people after the unexpected "regionnal changes" that sony did without consulting them, steam isnt anyone's underling
unfortunately not everyone is smart enough to realize that valve is not at fault for what publishers decide to do, this is steam protecting themselves from the dummies.
11:36 You know what they are gonna do if you add that condition? They program around it. You can only save your game if you log in. You can only access certain missions if you log in. It has to vanish completely or this won't work.
Game publishers and developers need to be kept in check. They love to forget their place.
Our customer rights must be protected above all else and we must hold ALL the power.
Otherwise we get developers stealing our games, lying on Steam and treating infinite digital keys as a limited FOMO resource.
If even Humble Bundle buyers are blue balled for months, you think regular Steam users are any safe? Devs/publishers should stop complaining and obey Steam.
developers are complicit always
I despise how many hoops I have to jump through just to update my graphics drivers. In the past you could just download it from the website, now you have to make an account, install the program and it's absurd.
Even my headphones tried to do this. I have an arctis headset and in the past you could just install a program to manage the levels, lighting, save profiles and many other things. Now the program removed over half of the options and locked the rest behind another account that was further locked even after that just to do what the previous version of the software did. Thankfully I found the links to the older version of the software that still supports my headset.
Websites with drivers still exist. You don't have to use those apps.
It's been a year since i built my last PC and spent much time on drivers, but then I just ignored all the apps and installers and just searched up the websites to get the drivers i needed. Didn't have any issues. The apps can provide better automated checking to warn you about updates or keep things automatically updated, but you could also just bookmark the sites and browse once in a while.
bro, you don't have to install anything
For nvidia you can still just download them from their driver website. No need to install any additional software.
Why isn’t there a rule that all DLC must also be sold separately?
I’d argue this more than anything is the biggest issue with season passes.
No the rule is that you all of the dlcs have to be purchasable by it's self and not where you have to be purchased a bundle or something like that to get it
EA REMOVED MY SIMS 2 ULTIMATE COLLECTION FROM MY LIBRARY DESPITE THE FACT THAT I HAD BOUGHT THE COMPLETE CD'S YEARS AGO AND DECIDED THAT THESE WOULDN'T BE WORKING ANYMORE, SO NOW I HAVE NOTHING LEFT 😢😢😢 THAT'S JUST DISGUSTING!!!!
wait till baldy finds out that problem with avatar game is the problem with ALL ubisoft games. you HAVE to have their fucking LAUNCHER not just an account.
7:48 that’s massive, holy shit. If your game is shit/doesn’t sell well, and you roped people into preemptively buying DLC that ends up never happening (on Steam), you have to give people’s money back.
Integrity level 100. Thank you GabeN. Please never leave Valve.
I look forward to seeing which developer or publisher will be the first to weasel their way around this.
go away grifter bot
Good, the faster they do it, the faster we know what to avoid
I'm putting money on Ubi or Playstation.
"Season Pass needs to have at least ONE DLC included". This will be their first move, easy clap.
An Empty Season Pass, with one cosmetic item as DLC lol.
@@bruhverlybruh4012 putting my money on ubi too
12:47 it's not impossible for external companies to link steam account as an identity, but they want to collect your data to market their games to you. That's because until you have an account with them, you are Steam's customer, not theirs.
I posted this in the sub reddit the other day and it was removed for "misinformation" according to the moderators and yet here we are.... crazy
The correct way to describe 'misinformation' is pretty much 'information that doesn't support the overlord's narrative'. Honestly, I would suggest to stop using those terms altogether. They practically didn't exist until within a single week's time they were spread throughout every western country. Basically all of the regulated media started using the terms and now people think they've always been around. I paid pretty good attention and I very much noticed that this same strategy was used for many things. Have many media outlets along with the government introduce a term of concept, then repeat it with many different 'sources' in many different ways to really hammer it in the head it a short time.
Doesn't work for someone like me who stops to think about things like that, but it's very effective for the people who just mindlessly consume without actually thinking about it.
@@thenonexistinghero If you've ever seen one of those montages where 100's of news channels all use the exact same quote you realize it's all a coordinated psyop to change public opinion on whatever they want, to program you.
On Reddit even the truth is misinformation
@@andrewgreeb916 ESPECIALLY the truth, that's what they hate most
@@andrewgreeb916the truth is what mods wants
Gabe's consciousness needs to be preserved inside a real life GLaDOS
We need to somehow put Gabe on a diet so we can keep him around xD
He lost about 100lbs this year, apparently from 360 to 250lbs
@@darth6129 that's great
@@darth6129HL3 miscarriage 😭
accept Gaben into your hearts
follow his example
@@jayeisenhardt1337 Steam Jesus be praised!
For anyone that doesn't believe consumers have power, remember the 1st trailer for the 1st Sonic movie, and how they were bullied into redoing Sonic's design
The dollar vote is real, and we're glad they listened
"There's a cover charge for getting into the slaughterhouse" - Asmongold TV 2024
Reminds me of when I always see people blaming GGG for something they don't like on the POE PS5 console client when it's obviously something that Sony is responsible for or not allowing to happen.
Steam is the example of a quasi-monopoly using its position for good.
Every company wants you to make an account, even if it doesnt make sense for the product, because its a way of harvesting and selling more of the user's data. Why else would you need to provide your email, full legal name, birth date, etc to play a single player game or change the color of the blinky lights on your mouse.
The publishers don't buy the games, it's basic logic.
Regarding the requirement of third-party accounts, that's one of the very few good things about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The game doesn't require an EA App account, or the launcher, to play the game. I wish more developers/publishers do the same.
I 100% agree. A new account is not needed when purchasing on Steam Anti-Consumer Shout out to STEAM - Gamers Vote With Their Wallets - Thanks for having our Back
Losing Gabe would be as disastrous to gaming as Rome losing Marcus Aurelius.
4:26 This industry has created the problem they should pay for it. If they sell data they should pay into a free take down service for all. Either that or just make it illegal to sell personal data with out the express permission of the person. No opt out. opt in.
YES THIS! MAKE IT A RULE that if you sell your game on steam you can not require, need or demand the installation of another platform. Tom Clancy's splinter cell blacklist
does this very same thing. If I wanted to buy the game on their lousy Ubisoft or EA platform I'd have bought it there but I don't want that ish on my pc. It's either entirely on steam or
or not. Steam is not mean to be an advertising front front for some other corporation and especially not get their foot in the door through sneaky sleazy way. Some big names
like Asmon should use their clout to bring this MASSIVE problem to attention and get it fixed.
These people forgot Gabe is a Gamer
One of the main complaints from Tekken8 players is that the people that purchased the over 100 USD, super premium version that supposedly contained ALL available purchasable content, had content like whole stages taken out of the package.
For context, this is how it worked in Tekken 7 and how it continues to happen with the competition like SF6, you buy the premium pass, you get the characters, secondary suits and the stages but BAMCO is now trying to double dip on their highest paying costumers by retroactively changing what the premium pass entails and leaving it in ambiguous terms, so they can never really know exactly what they are getting for their money.
Btw, companies demanding secondary logins is an old thing on Steam, Squeenix has been doing this for a while especially in their older games where theyd demand that you log in with your SE account in order to access a 20 year old, single player game with zero online features, its ridiculous.
Exactly why I pirate any game that has that BS, cracks bypass that bullcrap.
You're all awesome. Hope everyone has a great day :)
Same to you man!
You too buddy! :)
you too man!
Thanks! You too! :)
Thanks, you too mate!
The pay to be the product to a term called "pay pigs and cash cows"
If Valve does this for early access games it would actually be golden
The ending took a dark turn real fast like wtf 💀
54:30
if ya think about it they got slave there sure bad
while everyone here is only 30% slave, then they bump it up to women 30% slave too
now the harder you work the more slave you become. . . sure oversimplified but that is the truth of the matter
only when ya pay yourself with tax money to pay your taxes, then take the 170k a year and make hundreds of millions while in congress, then you are the master
Dark times will come with the fall of Gaben
How are so many Twitch chatters not understanding the delay window is 3 months max, and not 6 months lol. Sure the DLC might have a release window of 3 months, but that is the window for being on time. It can only be delayed by 3 months beyond that - any Twitch chatters typing 6 months need to take some classes in critical thinking.
Yeah was thinking the same thing. Like how the hell do they get it to 6? Surprised that there aren’t more people pointing this out.
A developer sets a DLC on steam with a launch window of Jan-Mar.
That developer communicates elsewhere, or customers receive an expectation by way of past release history, that the release will be near Jan 1.
They can delay release until the end of the Apr-Jun window (June 30). There is a strictly under 6 month window in which developers can extend their expected work timeline and customers can have their expectations moved around.
It is a worst-case scenario, but it makes sense to happen as a trend, which is what Asmon alluded to. Developers are necessarily aware of the difficulty of hitting these deadlines, and so will choose DLC launch times where they think they can hit the beginning, rather than the end, and utilize the widest available windows to maximize their flexibility. They may shift a release ahead or back in a season in addition to using extensions, and that can result in gaps in release expectations with size up to 6 months while being compliant with Steam's policy.
If the release window was only allowed to be a singular date, then a 3 month extension would just be a 3 month maximum waiting period. Because it is also a 3 month window, you get a 6 month period where the customer has no guarantees about having either the product or their money, which is a great improvement to the previous environment. This is what people were focused on. The fact that the first 3 months are all considered "on time" by the steam standard has no substantive difference to the consumer to a 3 month "delay" period if you don't have the product delivered yet in either period.
TLDR if you tell someone you'll give them something in Q1 with the option to delay to Q2 you have given yourself 6 months of time to deliver, not 3.
If a developer under these steam guidelines tells you DLC release is Q1, you now have a maximum of 6 months in which to check for releases before expecting a refund.
That's because you can advertise in seasons. If they miss the end of Fall 2024, the extension is essentially the end of Winter 2025. Thus, "6 months max". It naturally depends on the original release date but people are naturally putting themselves in the shoes of publisher who overpromises but underdelivers.
Steam is kinda forcing devs to be in the motion of developing the DLC rather than having it on the listing and fully greenlighting it when they have enough pre--orders/sales.
I still dont understand how Diablo 4 has a 'Mostly Positive' rating at 71%, yet 69% is 'mixed'
Hmm maybe 70% is the cut off
I don't understand how anyone thinks the future of gaming has any hope left when irredeemable garbage such as Diablo 4 get positive ratings
My policy is that a game on steam usually isn't worth looking at unless it has a very positive rating.
How do you “not understand” the fact that
At percentage x to y, it is a certain rating
At percentage a to b, it is a different rating
It really couldn’t be more simple
@@alexsmith6322 You didn't understand what I was suggesting. That 71% should not be 'mostly positive' for a shit game like D4. 80%+ should be 'mostly positive'. 70-79 should be like 'Modest/passable/okay' at best.
Steam proved, by knowing the incentive levers, why government agencies shouldn't be involved in this. Valve had the incentive and valve knew what to do. A faceless government agent has no idea the lever much less the incentive
I hate the whole “government always has to get involved” thing all the time.
Oh hell yeah, 10:40 at night? Asmongold video? 1 hour long? About Games? Peaceful sleep
i’m glad i’m not the only one that falls asleep to asmon vods.
Fellow country man
Most importantly, positive vibes for the future
Daddy's bedtime story. Haha
Razer synapse doesn't need an account
Gabe being the God of GAMERS 🤣🙏 is amazing
Man says no one cares about being a "good person"...
Man also says that if your business needs to resort to predatory business tactics to make money maybe your business model isn't viable and you don't deserve to make money...
"Mr. Madison, please choose the next topic."
"I choose Business Ethics."
I believe what people are saying is a piece of season pass content can have a release date of "Jan to Mar" (3 month window) when the DEV originally planned for it to release Jan. So if they miss that Jan date, they still have 3 months to finish it. Then if they still haven't finished it they have an additional 3 months or 6 months total, but only in this specific scenario.
TLDR: They can set a 3 month release window and they have 3 months to release the content at the end of the window, then refunds happen.
Can you make a TLDR of your TLDR? It's too long to read.
TLDR 🤪
Gabe is the King who cared.
Gabe is..Videogame Jesus
The cycle of abuse applies to any relationship, including a consumer and the company. That's why people keep coming back to these companies that let them down.
There r games on steam with separate launcher but linked to steam account which is way better then a different account entirely
13:39 I agree I don't think it should be mandatory but the benefit is that now my profiles are able to chase me no matter which keyboard or device I get from them. I don't have to sit there re-configuring my settings or at least too much depending on the model. It's the easiest way to flip between the gear they sell and if something were to cause me to re-configure my OS or had to re-install the app it's just a login away from me being back up.
They should really upload Gabe's consciousness to Steam so he can manage it for eternity. All hail the Gabenssiah
I refuse to play ubisoft games. The launcher never works right
Oh perfect, I did not want to give BELLENDULAR the click, this sweet baby inc lover
Let me guess. You watch Andypants, right?
@@xeroeddieno the website
I have a hunch that you have to make an account for SO MANY different things because as soon as you make an account with something then they can legally gather data on you that can be sold.
Imagine if they de-listed the Half Life series from the Steam store because the “Structure of the game and marketing implied access to an entry after the second and before the fourth, which has not been delivered, so all related media will be temporarily removed from the store until the delivery of such a product is completed” lmao
Glad to see they are doing more. Hate when developers like MeanDean with his Iconic Studio publisher have an early access game (Survival Africa). You support him and then he just stops. Saying he turned it over to another developer named "Roxy" because he could not continue with the game due to electrical load sharing where he lives. Except he immediately started working on a new game named Sustained. Survival Africa's last update had been Sep2022 with him posting Jun 2023 that 2 updates were coming before full release. Not a single update since Sep2022 and "Roxy" has not done a single update a year and a half later. MeanDean screams in discord that he is not the developer and bans you from discord even though days before he was telling people that asked that he was the developer. The big Early Access warning no longer shows on steam and the game is still being sold.
Signing up for anything is always for harvesting data.
With regards to the 3 vs 6 month thing, it is actually 6 months. If you list a DLC releasing "Winter 2024/25" and your planned release date is the 1st of Dec 2024, then you can push it back to Feb 20th 2025 for example, and still be considered "winter 24/25". You HAVE pushed it back 3 months without needing to make any visual changes for your audience. You can then push it a FURTHER 3 months into "Spring 2025" which gives you another 3 months to play with, totalling a 6 month period for delays...
The big problem is that they sell things in game paying only with an in game premium currency that you buy with real money. This kind of transaction has not any protection or possible refund. Still "waiting" for Rockstar to solve the bugs with the Collector profession in RDO (kind of a DLC you can buy with in game premium currency). Basically, you pay for a content that is so bugged that you cannot play it if the bugs affect you. I have never bought another premium currency in any game since then.
28:00 - This happened to me at a Wendys not too long ago. I paid for a Chili and then was told a minute later that there is no chili and they'll be happy to substitute it with anything else on the menu. I asked if it was possible they could put my name on a list and I could just come back later and get it. I don't know how this works with the general populace, but the manager knows me pretty well, so I was actually able to get my chili when I stopped back by a week later.
I'll not buy any game that required mandatory secondary account on Steam. I've seen too many case of other game company just ban people out of nowhere
15:00 - 3 months is not very lenient. Some game projects might even get delayed 6 months. Software can be tricky especially multiplayer online games because performance problems can be a real pain to solve.
what really sucks about gaming is when you click a game
then ea opens up or ubisoft program has to be loaded before you can play! rage!
I remember trying to play far cry 4 on steam and had to DL U play and when I closed it it also closed the game my ram was focused more on Uplay then the game or steam it was unbearable and back, then only had 4 GB of ram so steam Uplay and farcry my PC was crying
In order for valve to refund part of a season pass and not lose money, it also means they can't give that money to the devs until they release the associated DLC in the pass. Otherwise a dev sells a bunch of season passes then promptly goes out of business, where is that money coming from for the refund?
No,devs just have to pay.
It is counter intuitive to purchase a game on one platform and have to make a separate account on a separate platform and link them just to play from the preferred platform.
Not a DLC, but we still haven't gotten any sort of reimbursement for Bethesda removing the DOOM Eternal soundtrack from deluxe preorders.
The Early Access Purgatory is real. Too often it looks like developers offer early access to get a little money for bugs they won't fix for a year.
Gabe put his big steamy deck on the table.
They are allowed a 3 month grace period initially before valve takes action but they can apply at any point of that three month late grace period for a three month extension. Hope that helps
Steam does notify you about third party accounts being required for a game before you buy it. Tells you about third party DRM like Denuvo too. Most people just don't notice it. Look over to the right hand side in the steam store and scroll down til you see little yellow boxes. That's where they tell you about that stuff. They even mention if you have to agree to a third party EULA as well. Those warnings have been there for a long time too lol.
So Steam on Evil of Duty
Maybe Yeah
11:50 Even better, the
"Log in with external account and we give you a start bonus in the game"
Two games on my Steam wishlist are no longer available for purchase, happened recently. Eden Star and Pantropy, both Early Access for a while with mixed reviews and seemed abandoned. Sadly they were seen as promising games.
So if it hits day 1 of a quarter, it can be moved to the next quarter if needed to be delayed, but doesnt specifically state which part of the quarter.
So it could be stated as day 1 of a quarter, then pushed back to the end of the next quarter. So just under 6 months in total to wait for whatever content got delayed