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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 const_cast »

nerdjon wrote: post #44

It is always interesting seeing the mostly blind loyalty that Valve seems to get for no real clear reason. Don't get me wrong, I love their games (when they bother to make one) and my Steam Deck. But lets not pretend that Valve is our friend either and their main goal is anything but to make money. While I think that going so far as to delete my Steam library is a fairly extreme situation, I do think supporting a div…

> It is always interesting seeing the mostly blind loyalty that Valve seems to get for no real clear reason.

Trust, it's trust. Valve has continuously proven to be good-faith actors who work with the gaming community on mutual goals. See: everything they've done for gaming on Linux.

The reason it feels very out of place is because pretty much every company on Earth has eroded any modicum of trust they have. Or, um, had.

Really, all it takes is a few bad decisions for Valve to fall out of favor. They just haven't made those decisions yet and we're all praying they don't.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by ethbr1 »

const_cast wrote: post #79
ethbr1 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

* Assuming that game is supported on Linux While compatibility has improved a lot, it's difficult to argue it's on par with a game on as-released hardware + OS. There will always be gaps or altered functionality in compatibility. And unfortunately, because of the recency bias of popularity, there won't be large enough player bases to justify corporate fixes. It needs to be a priority despite finances (e.g. GoG) or co…

> While compatibility has improved a lot, it's difficult to argue it's on par with a game on as-released hardware + OS. Agreed, but at this point Wine is a better Win32 implementation than Win32. You typically have more success running old programs under Wine than under new versions of Windows.

Granted! But at some point you run into the console emulation problem: random piece of software used undefined-behavior dependent quirk of hardware / OS / libraries, that was fixed in emulation.

Happens less in PC, because compute power progression, but I wouldn't dare say there aren't any such programs out there.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by justaj »

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…

...because running applications from untrusted sources is a _really_ bad idea?

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by rkomorn »

bigyabai wrote: post #84

> business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers. Absolutely insane take. Guess we'll have to see which side customers take.

My anecdotal take: I paid for GamePass for years and it saved me money every year. Since I stopped paying for it, I've spent an equivalent amount of money on Steam but spend fewer hours playing on a smaller count of games (and I've requested refunds on multiple games).

I'm probably not an average gamer in the sense that I don't particularly care about playing games when they come out, and I've played many "big title" games months or years after their release because they became available on GamePass, but in general, I feel like my GamePass experience was better value than Steam and I'm considering resubscribing.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by ekianjo »

const_cast wrote: post #80
ekianjo wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its running Chromium under the hood, its like Electron on steroids

I think most of the UI is native, with web views shoved into various corners. I think the application might still be 32bit, but I'm not sure as I run it as a Flatpak.

The web views are using Chromium engine for sure, because you see it in the underlying processes.

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Post by Jotalea »

politelemon wrote: post #4

For those who don't know, Kaldaien is a prolific modder of PC games, a well known and frequently controversial figure. He has created QoL patches and fixes for various games that were released but 'ignored' by their publishers afterwards. PCGW reference: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_compatible_w...

Thanks for the information, I didn’t know it.

Re: I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

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Post by Jotalea »

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.

The Steam client is so bloated at the point it takes 40% of my computer's resources, leaving little to no resources for the actual game I want to play, and thus making the gameplay experience feel worse than it should. That is one of the reasons I would pirate or try to find a workaround to download the games from Steam and run them outside.
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