A... game from two decades ago? I appreciate them for keeping the game up for this long, dude. The hats are still in my inventory, and the good matches still to be had. I wouldn't think Blizzard is a bad company if they had let SC:BW go, or SOE if they said no more everquest. I think being mad about a game that old is demanding something more than even a good company should be expected to provide.

[–] Nika03@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Counter Strike as a franchise is old as well. They keept making new games and most recently moved CS into Source 2. Why can't they do that to TF2? Oh that's right, the game makes 0 billons of dollars.

[+] Stamets@startrek.website -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] slimarev92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Choosing not to make some video games is not immoral or evil.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why curate your Steam store when you can allow utter garbage into it that just effectively steals people’s money?

What's the solution here?

They used to curate everything heavily, but new studios and indies had a tough time getting their games reviewed and added. So they implemented Greenlight, their user-curation platform so users could tell them what they wanted to see. It just became a huge popularity contest, and getting your game on Steam became about how much marketing you could afford to buy. Now, they let anyone with $100 in, and it's very easy for an indie studio to get their game on Steam, but it's also easy for all of the garbage to get onto Steam.

What solution would you propose, that both lets legitimate indie studios get their games on Steam, especially studios producing games in less popular / niche genres, and also edges out the objective garbage, while not incurring huge costs on developers or using a bunch of Valve employee time to personally curate every submission?

Edit: For that matter...

Why have a sensible customer service when you can blame customers themselves and offer no refunds, you know, despite the fact the refund wouldn’t be necessary if you curated your store?

Steam's refund system is one of the most generous, if not the most generous, in the industry. What are your complaints with it? I'm legitimately curious.

Why do anything people are asking for when you can nickle and dime them with dumb shit like trading cards?

I'm not going to defend trading cards, because they're stupid as hell, but how many have you ever been forced to buy?

Gabe is just as bad as every other CEO. Arguably he’s worse.

You know what Valve hasn't done? Gone public. It would make them - and Gabe personally - an incredible amount of short-term money, but they haven't done it, and thank fuck for that, because it'd be the beginning of the end of the PC gaming industry as we know it.

Edit #2: If you're one of the people downvoting and not commenting, you're a coward.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plus, in the age of fighting for the right to repair our devices, the Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air. They could have locked it down with a proprietary OS like the Switch and pretty much every other console, but didn't.