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I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by mrheosuper »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #14

Steam is still the only platform I'm using regularly, and IMHO it does everything right. I'm planning to try to put an app on it and have high hopes for it, but I'm still trying to find a gaming-related angle that makes them accept it. I believe to understand the reasons why Steam avoids ordinary apps, but at the same time have a hard time figuring out how the existing non-game content like tools and general producti…

I also mostly use Steam, but i honestly dont know what other stores(epic, xbox, etc) do wrong. I only use Steam to explore new game, buy game and install game, and other stores can do the same thing.

I dont understand the hate for other stores.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by blueflow »

lastdong wrote: post #8

I must admit that the Steam client is quite slow and bloated. Having used it for many years, I often avoid launching it. Epic has replicated these same issues. Consequently, I end up using GOG instead.

Slow, multi-window and focus stealing. Every single window for steam steals the focus, so if startup takes a minute, go grab a coffee or something as anything else will be unusable.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by cmcaleer »

lastdong wrote: post #8

I must admit that the Steam client is quite slow and bloated. Having used it for many years, I often avoid launching it. Epic has replicated these same issues. Consequently, I end up using GOG instead.

Bloated is one word for it. The difference in the battery life of my MacBook when Steam is running (and doing nothing) versus Steam not running is incredible, it’s the difference between my battery sometimes lasting one working day and comfortably lasting two.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by charcircuit »

a3w wrote: post #10

> "Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional." Why would I buy at ${store} then? If a store has features, while piracy does not have them, I have an incentive to buy at the store. If a store only has DRM, while piracy does not, I will be incentivised to use piracy. I need to use a crack anyway to play the official steam distribution of Medieval or skip the Windows 11 installer of…

Can you give an example of a feature like that which would incentivize you to buy at a store if the feature was required as opposed to being optional?

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by orwin »

I think i disagree? you do own games on steam: just download them, and you can then launch them without the steam client. At least Paradox/Sid Meiers games work without steam, i did not test others, but i remember playing Dragon Age (the first one) and Mass effect without launching steam (basically we used steam to install those game on my PC, then disconected from my friend account account, and could play a "pirated" game like this)

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by Johbii »

c048 wrote: post #9

Am I reading this wrong? He complaints that Valve deleted items and posts, despite them promising that it would not happen... only for the quote he provided to state that "they might not delete everything". "Might" is not "will".

Are you referring to the usage of "some"?

> Will all of my information be deleted? Your personal information is removed, but some content you’ve posted in community areas is not. This includes things like discussion posts, or content that you posted in Steam community hubs, as well as comments you made on other Steam account’s profiles.

I read that as describing the types of content which would be deleted: "some" content but not all, and that the types of content that would not be deleted include the following: ...

I can also see how one might read that as saying that some of the following content may or may not be removed.

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Post by andrelaszlo »

c048 wrote: post #9

Am I reading this wrong? He complaints that Valve deleted items and posts, despite them promising that it would not happen... only for the quote he provided to state that "they might not delete everything". "Might" is not "will".

Yeah, I think the author was referring to community posts. The linked FAQ article says this:

"Your personal information is removed, but some content you’ve posted in community areas is not. This includes things like discussion posts, or content that you posted in Steam community hubs, as well as comments you made on other Steam account’s profiles."

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by klabb3 »

westpfelia wrote: post #12
squigz wrote: post #5

It's a bit strange to me to read these complaints about Steam/Valve, then have the author... switch to Microsoft Store and advocate for Game Pass?

Yea.... He goes on about how you dont own the game on steam because valve can... patch it so that it doesnt work. But then says well lets play a game on gamepass. I mean I guess that DOES solve the "patch it so that the game no longer works" problem. Just dont own anything.

Tbf, it’s a totally valid argument. It’s a bit like going to a library that costs monthly fee rather than buying books that get auto-disabled arbitrarily in the future (hmm Bezos?).

It’s false advertising when you ”buy” things with modern DRM, no? Maybe he’s tired of the hypocrisy.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by teamonkey »

doix wrote: post #15
reedf1 wrote: post #13

> I buy games from Epic Games Store , Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat. Absolutely unhinged opinion.

Yeah, I have a bunch of free games on the Epic store, because they were giving them out. I still buy them on Steam because the Epic launcher is just so awful.

But why? What specifically is awful about it compared to Steam?
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