hahaha yeah.

agreed, i still dislike GOG'S AI take.

itch.io seems rather unproblematic

I wouldn't classify it as "scary" quite yet.

It's not. You can still buy from the others if you want to be treated like shit, excepting GOG, in my opinion. Consoles are true monopolies, because you can only choose if you want to buy a console and marry to its store, now that physical media is becoming a rarity.

They have a big fraction of the market because they are efficient at selling what people want. I don't like it, I believe Newell, specifically, is profiting greedily from Valve's situation, but shit, this is not even a natural monopoly.

How is steam a monopoly if they don't even own the biggest platform they sell games to? And even steam os being Linux has to be fully open to comply with the gpl meaning anyone can modify and install whatever they want.

GOG just sitting in the corner waiting for people to notice them.

am probably gonna rebuy all my video games on alternative platforms, or imma play open source games instead.
i can also take the games outside of Steam.

Back in my day we used Hamachi and multiplayer was just fine.

multiplayer will suffer

Good. It's a cesspool.

an arm handheld

Yes, that's usually what the hand is at the end of.

Did you see the leg football match last night?

The only ARM Linux device i have is the Raspberry Pi 5.
would be cool to try it out on the PI.

The law only matters if it's actually enforced.

Steam is a closed source market place blob that takes 30% middle man tax. Valve however has understood FOSS, and the contributions they are making are immense.

When a true FOSS project is dominating this means the people are in control of it. Not corpos nor is it a monopoly. People have voted by donating work for it to be the most successful thing in its applicable area. Dominating FOSS projects also suck up and integrate a lot of innovation greatly reducing duplicated effort.

FreeBSD is alive and well, and it even benefits from Linux's DRM GPU drivers.

Although the drm gpu drivers are mostly of a corporate effort, we are seeing an occasional interventions by the people "no, not like that" to keep the sometimes shoddy quality up.

/

ow Linux dominates the server space.

Linux is free. Free cannot be monopoly. Bad comparison here.

yeah i know,but i feel like Steam's competitors are inferior.
(personal opinion though)

this is the reason why i dont like Consoles, If you ignore Video Game choices.
(if you want to know Video Game choice: TF2 Is not on Console for example, ik it used to be but not anymore,but its one of my favorite multiplayer game, no multiplayer video game i found is like it.)

It kills me when people play on console.

As a PC and console gamer, consoles are easier to buy once and play a round of games for a number of years. PCs, on the other hand, are much better especially for certain game types.

Each has its role, but I was almost exclusively a console gamer for a couple of years because:

1. You can sit back and relax and play on your TV after a long day of work

2. If I buy a console, I can expect that almost all games will play correctly on it without having to upgrade mid-cycle

It's quite a bit more complicated to try to figure out which video games your current graphics card can and cannot play, when you should spring for an upgrade, and when you need to do a complete re-build. To add to that I do not like windows and so I'm a member of the linux gaming club (there are dozens of us, DOZENS) and that makes things more complicated as well. With a console, they've worked out the licensing, the performance, and most fiddly bits and I can just sit on my couch, buy a game and play.

When I was younger and had more time to deal with things like the above, I gamed exclusively on PC. But with everything else going on with work and life, I find it much easier to just pick up a controller, plunk down on the couch, and play for a couple of hours.

Both have their pluses and minuses. I would say I like console gaming better because it usually happens in the living room and doesn't feel as anti-social.

But to your point...cost savings isn't really the primary reason to game on a console IMO.

To be fair is you're into something like Ubislop it is really the only way to go, the integrated excessive DRM on a console keeps you from dealing with a terrible launcher, three layers of DRM, anti-tamper, and rootkit KLAC crap.

I paid $1,000 for my PC

What year was this?

I call it accepting a negative, voicing opinions against it, while also not interfacing with it.

The pricing behind PS+, when considering all the Netflix-style games available, is decently generous. Less so for Game Pass, but it used to be better. I think most people are upset that it’s a gatekeeper for online play, but begrudgingly accept it as part of that wide game service.

I’m generally with you that pricing is better, but I have had occasions where a deal price on PlayStation beat out the lowest historical price of a Steam key.

If you were to claim you should never accept a platform with negative behaviors, I would point at Steam’s Counterstrike skins market, which can even encroach on you should scammers wish to sell to you, or steal your account to get a high “user reliability score”. I’d rather it didn’t exist. I still support Steam even with it there.

And in most cases you can't mod your games at all on console, which is basically a free way to vastly increase the shelf life of any title.

PC forever.

Don’t forget the Humble Bundle which or mostly on Steam.

2/593 I paid for, it's getting pretty ridiculous. If I was much younger, this would be an insane library. Instead it's mostly the greatest hits of the past and there's a lot of library overlap with what I own on Steam and played already.

I just bought a Switch 2 and am playing Pokemon Champions lol. Consoles are not horrible

really?

There's also Sunshine/Moonlight and you don't have to buy your games at all.

You can also install the playnite launcher and launch all your games from one place without having to add them to steam

i know that,pretty useful though.