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[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

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[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@SteamInvHelper So your argument is that Steam should be made worse because being good is mean to the "competition"?

[𝐁𝐒𝐏𝟑 @RealBSP3]

Twisting things a little hard there, aren't we?

That's a bad faith post.

Nobody has to abandon anything, and options do exist. More options than those can easily exist. They can exist because Steam made it possible.

It's no exaggeration to say that Steam effectively saved PC gaming while fighting for it the entire time.

Steam is also a launchpad for developers. Of course it's going to be stocked well. They opened the door to everyone. Nothing stopping others from doing that.

Publishers creating walled gardens is on them. They keep people out, they want data, they want to run 24/7, and their launchers are clunky and half-baked.

They're not trying.

Big vendors using undesirable account models is on them, as well. Microsoft's service is a mess and invasive, but does offer enough to give people a place to go. The same goes for others, in their position.

They're not trying, either.

Those guys want to collect you and keep you to themselves. They didn't have to fight the fight Steam did to build this industry from scratch. Steam built the world in which they operate, nail by nail.

To this day, Steam just lets you buy games, play games, and launch games, and it gets out of your way. They're not taking over your machine, and they're not trying to control your experience.

There's also an alternative we all know, and it's a big one:

Gog grew in Steam's shadow by doing things right. Now you've got a great choice if you don't like Steam, but most of us are happy to use both, because both are great.

That's the point:

In good faith competition, options aren't trying to steal you away from others and lock you in their ecosystem.

Neither company does that.

Steam was already absolutely massive when Gog showed up with a few retro titles. It was cute; a neat idea that was small potatoes but scrappy and ready to hustle.

It had something Steam didn't have, and it took root and grew. Steam stayed in it's own lane.

That Gog hustle is what it takes. It's what separates a good, sustainable, and growth-oriented business from the opposite; just as Steam had the entire time.

Steam didn't step on them. Steam never tried to downplay them, and they didn't suddenly lock up the ecosystem to prevent migration. As always, they stood by and let the industry and new ideas grow.

They exist in harmony, and Gog is getting big titles, now, with advantages Steam can't offer using their business model. These days, buying from Gog or Steam is making a choice that both freely allow.

There is always room for another Gog. People just aren't trying. They'd rather score a user and keep him in their ecosystem, or just not put forth the effort.

Here's what people who don't know business can't wrap their brains around:

Long-term risk and effort.

It took Steam literal decades to get where they are, against all odds. Everything stood against them, but they fought fairly through many of their users' entire lives and survived with grit and dedication to service.

Odds are, if you're reading this, they were fighting to keep your industry alive before you were born, and nobody trusted them. All odds were against them, and yet they pushed forward.

If Steam hadn't pushed through nearly impossible obstacles, your only option today would be to sit in front of a TV with a Nintendo.

When they first showed up, I wouldn't let them anywhere near my computer, and I wasn't the only one. They had to work for years just to reach a point of even mild acceptance; not even trust.

Just acceptance.

Now, they're big. So what? They're not standing in anyone's way, and they don't offer anything ten years ahead of anyone. It's a simple, fair market.

That's all.

Their is no killer feature others can't implement. There is no secret technology they claim that makes them impenetrable. They don't carry a shield.

The functions themselves are not advanced or world-changing. It was the effort that was world-changing.

They fought the big fight, leaving room for everyone else. If anything, simply by going through all those years of toil, risk, and sacrifice, they opened the door for competition that never would have been possible without them.

Everyone doing business in this industry owes steam for doing what they would not. They could have, but they didn't. They still can, but they don't.

Steam started off as suspected malware. Never forget that. They didn't get an ounce of help up the ladder.

They just ran a solid, fair business for decades.

[FRESHEN UP JUNE @ChristinaJuneee]

All Bricks and Minifigs had to do was give back the Legos they stole from the father and son.

All Ben was doing was helping the father and son get the Legos back that Bricks and Minifigs stole.

Now the entire population wants to see Bricks and Minifigs' downfall.

[Tilo Jung @TiloJung]

Es ist auch Baerbocks Vermächtnis...

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.

Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.

The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.

[I❤️Clay @SuperClayBoi]

These guys are held hostage by their Anti-Woke audience.

Bro deleted a tweet saying the game looked cool because he isn’t allowed to like it.

Grow a fucking spine.

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@champagne_shawn @ZacksJerryRig @TeslaPatriot That's the joke, your AI Overlord can't even comprehend a simple sign that says "DON'T DRIVE HERE".

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@no_more_fears @OOZwin Nobody tells you off for saying you won't play the game.
You are getting shit on because you are crying that the game shouldn't exist at all.

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@no_more_fears @Tiger_Hoods @JaiceTV Plenty people who aren't weak little snowflakes seem to disagree with you.

[Jaice @JaiceTV]

Men being furious about playing as a magical goddess that thickens the story/mythology while happily roleplaying as a half-naked oiled-up rage god for decades is one of gaming’s funniest self-reports.

Women have been playing as men forever and somehow survived. Wild.

#PrideMonth

[Rat 🏳️‍⚧️🍄 LIVE NOW: twitch.tv/RatthewVT @RatthewVT]

A woman hurts a man’s ego so now he wishes to harm her. Typical

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@humorMEplzz @SVegvari Sure, I'm gonna trust you on that, Mr. White Supremacist Incel.

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@Bezahlter_Bot Ja, ich habe den Kern der Aussage, dass die Hama angeblich das mit LGBTQIA+ Menschen das würde was du und die AfD gerne mit ihnen machen würdet, schon verstanden.
Die Aussage an sich ist halt nur falsch und abgrundtief dumm.

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@Bezahlter_Bot Wieso sollte ich die anlügen?

[Steven Spohn (Spawn) @stevenspohn]

Vicki is my fiercest defender. But when security at The Met made snide comments about my breathing equipment, I was sure she'd need bailed outta jail.

Watch here: https://t.co/PqGvk0ZMH1

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@HypergamousB @GBBranstetter For all we know Elon could have tried to groom her for the Pedophile in Chief.

[sircb85.bsky.social 🐀📯🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @SirCB85]

@Stevenrutledge @Sosleepy8999 @esjesjesj No, you are disingenuous and trying to stir shit by using the same dead arguments that everyone else already failed with.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Seems important to remember she disowned him, not the other way around. She gave up perhaps the largest inheritance in human history because that's how important it is to be yourself

[Misu @yngmisu]

>be tim sweeney
>unreal, fortnite, great success
>launch epic games store, more choice for developers and users, lower cuts, received fairly well
>make deals with studios to release some games exclusively on epic for a year, not much for choice lol
>launcher is completely terrible, runs worse than ue5, literal garbage, browser within a browser type shit, lacks features, is literally a pain to use
>offer games for free, people redeem them, never play them or buy them on steam
>user base grows 173% in five years, revenue grows by 1.6%
>epic exclusive games tank
>turns out gamers like having all their games in one place, or at the very least have a decent launcher

shiittt steam must be a monopoly lemme bitch and cry on the internet like the small envious man i am