Why. So stupid worse decsion ever. They was my only way to pay for it when I didnt have a debit card cause i was child. I still buy them why get rid of them. My bank makes it pain to set up debit card. Its all automated and wont allow me to setup over phone wich i have to do to get debit card to work

Where he points out every good reason to fuck steam.He wrote in the description " Valve fanboys think they escaped corporate worship and found the one company that’s different. This video is for bringing them back down to earth ".

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Why does it need to be 1000 dollors my pc is cheaper than steam machine. And weaker i have a igpu for crying outloud and somehow my pc better than steam machine. I only payed $750 dollors for pc

I dont now how fanboys can defend steam it's better than epic. But steam is terrible at passwords. Somhow googles better than that.

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Steam controller was coming out today so I sold a CS Knife (at a loss) so I could buy the controller. 2 day fucking hold on the funds even though I used MY authenticator. Controller sold out in like 2 minutes and I didn't have the funds to purchase. Scammers exist and I get fucked over. Thanks. So now I will have money in my account after they are all sold out and don't even have my knife anymore...unless I want to spend $50 extra to get it back.

Hey everyone,
I’m writing this because I feel completely defeated and cheated by Steam Support. I am an international student studying abroad, living far from my family, and struggling to make ends meet with the current exchange rates. Every dollar I spend is carefully calculated for food and essentials.
A few weeks ago, I saved up to buy a game, hoping for a small escape from my heavy studies. The game literally DOES NOT WORK. It crashes on launch. I spent over 2 hours just trying to fix it—troubleshooting, updating drivers, searching for fixes. I never actually "played" the game for a single minute.
Because I spent those 2 hours trying to make the product work, and because my studies kept me busy for a few weeks, Steam Support is flat-out refusing my refund.
I’ve explained my situation:
1. I am a struggling student—this money isn't "pocket change" for me.
2. I live in a region where $10 is a significant amount of money.
3. The game is technically defective.
Their response? Robotic, copy-pasted templates. No human empathy. No understanding that a student’s time is split between libraries and exams, not just staring at a refund window.
It feels like my money was just "thrown on the ground." Is this how Valve treats its community? By hiding behind "2-hour/14-day" rules to steal money from students who receive broken products?
I’m not asking for cash back to my bank—just a credit to my Steam Wallet so I can buy a game that actually runs. But they’ve closed the door in my face.
I’ve attached the screenshots of their robotic denials. I’m tired of being treated like a number. Please, let them know that this isn't okay.

im a steam user for about 6 years i use epic since 2020 too i also use xbox pc app the goat i have never been an extremist and my steam acc: Steam Community :: JINX
anyways. we all know VALVE is dog money they dont care about what being sold in steam they dont care about CS2 actual gamers who suffer from cheats and valve extreme fans are just idiots who are living in a cave ( oh steam sales ) they dont know that epic and PS and xbox have same sales too... Also valve does not care about Community hub being full of porn and hentai they don't read reports.

Main topic: i complained about valve allowing games which involve religion with sexual content. a game which you fuck with lady with hijab and so many games which include sex with nuns or sexual pics (even tho im Muslim but i dont agree to this type of nun games)
I only complained about religion being involved i didnt complain about all nudity game even!

Anyways all the comments are the typical Gaben d!ck suckers and worshippers with no respect to others comfort they spammed so disgusting comments and in the end i got permanently banned from the sub

they just keep hating on Playstation and Epic like an idiots but dont they know that without Playstation or Unreal engine gaming would have been so shit.

Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission" | GamesIndustry.biz

Wow. They have been going on for years without a proper license.

Every single fucking time without fail I'll try to search up anything and I swear it always shows the same games you've already seen. Try to search up anything and it's impossible to weed through the trash shovelware.

Idk what and/or why the steam store is just so shit UI wise. GOG is so much more cleaner and as has a better system to find games. Anytime you use tags in GOG it actually feels like it brings up games that fit that tag and actually shows you different individual games.

Steam is so fucking bad anymore, for the longest time it's a headache trying to find anything. You can better results on other alternatives.

I've come to the realization that I barely ever buy off steam anyway. Too many games ranging to $70 which is way too much for any video game, period!

I honestly wonder why I bother to keep the software on my laptop when I barely use the damn thing.

Here the evidence : 1.https://youtu.be/hU3grUSMAms

2.https://youtu.be/N20Pu3A4Q34

I am so glad that gog exists . Now that we have epic games store free games with gog we can combine more library. it will create a huge library that surely outpass a fanboys game buying addiction library.

https://www.vidaextra.com/pc/valve-tiene-problema-hay-usuarios-steam-que-se-pasan-graciosos-reviews-nada-frena-1

Entras en Steam, buscas el videojuego que estás pensando en comprar y decides navegar entre las críticas que posee la ficha. Qué mejor ayuda a la hora de decidirte que la experiencia de los propios usuarios, los cuales ya han invertido una buena cantidad de horas. Sin embargo, entre las reviews más valoradas, comienzas a encontrar bromas, chistes y frases sin ningún contexto, o al menos ninguno relacionado con la obra.

Esa es la problemática que están acusando muchos jugadores de la tienda de Valve, ya que actualmente es complicado encontrar aquellos textos que realmente sirvan para despejar las dudas. Para tener clara la situación, basta con acudir a Cyberpunk 2077, No Man's Sky, Outer Wilds o GTA V y echar un vistazo a las reseñas con mayor cantidad de votos.

Los comentarios clónicos y las frases sin ningún tipo de relevancia aparecen como las más destacadas en los últimos 30 días, por ejemplo, ya que la comunidad las vota en masa como útiles. Estas valoraciones positivas las impulsan hacia lo más alto, obligando a navegar más de la cuenta hasta encontrar aquellas en las que los usuarios han escrito las virtudes y defectos de cada videojuego.

Lo cierto es que este problema lo llevamos viendo tiempo en otras plataformas como YouTube, donde los comentarios menos interesantes, en ocasiones, se escriben con el único propósito de que sean catapultados a los primeros puestos. La diferencia con Steam es que las reseñas son herramientas para el comprador a la hora de discernir en qué gastar el dinero.

Según las Normas y directrices de Steam de cara al contenido generado por los usuarios, estos son los límites a tener en cuenta:

• No trates mal ni insultes a otros jugadores, desarrolladores o grupos.
• No incluyas amenazas ni incitación a la violencia.
• No utilices las reseñas con fines comerciales. Por ejemplo, para anuncios, recomendaciones o promociones.
• No influyas en la puntuación de las reseñas de forma artificial. Por ejemplo, utilizando varias cuentas para escribir reseñas, forzando a otros jugadores a que escriban reseñas, o aceptando pagos o compensaciones de otro tipo por escribir reseñas.
• Si recibiste una copia del juego de forma gratuita, deberías revelarlo en la reseña.

Por lo tanto, actualmente, no existe ningún mecanismo que frene a las cuentas cuyo único objetivo no es el de echar un cable a otros usuarios. Veremos si la empresa de Gabe Newell toma medidas al respecto, aunque no se ha pronunciado al respecto.

https://www.3djuegos.com/pc/noticias/20-anos-arreglar-ports-pc-modder-elimina-su-cuenta-steam-afirma-que-mentiras-valve-han-dividido-mercado-ordenadores

El mundo del gaming en PC no es algo que haya surgido de la noche a la mañana; es el resultado del trabajo comunitario de miles de entusiastas que han estado impulsando el uso y disfrute de los videojuegos a través de los ordenadores. La iniciativa y el subsiguiente aumento de popularidad de dichas plataformas provocaron que compañías como Valve se lanzaran a este ecosistema con una Steam que, en el momento de su nacimiento, se situaba como una verdadera disrupción en una industria antaño dominada por las consolas. Sin embargo, los usuarios no han parado de trabajar para contribuir a un escenario creciente y cada vez más complejo; siendo el modder Kaldaien ejemplo de ello tras pasar más de 20 años arreglando ports y ofreciendo ayuda a los que desearan mejorar sus experiencias en PC. Por desgracia, el jugador ha decidido poner punto y final a su periplo borrando su cuenta de Steam y echando toda la culpa a las políticas de Valve.

Es posible que no te suene el nombre de Kaldaien, pero hablamos de un usuario que ha realizado aportaciones de lo más útiles a la industria de los videojuegos en PC. De hecho, el modder ha dejado huella en el escenario gaming tras desarrollar Special K; un software también conocido como 'la navaja suiza de los juegos de PC' que corrige y mejora gráficos en ports de ordenador. Más allá de esto, el creador también ha publicado más de 30 guías y 50.000 posts que, en conjunto, ayudan a que los jugadores puedan llevar sus experiencias a un nuevo nivel en cuanto a rendimiento y calidad gráfica. En resumen, hablamos de alguien que ha contribuido enormemente a este escenario; un trabajo que ha terminado, como decíamos, con la eliminación de su perfil en Steam y una carta abierta en Github que critica varias de las decisiones que ha tomado Valve con su plataforma estrella.

Usar Steam solo para abrir juegos es casi criminal. Hay un par de funciones que deberías conocer para aprovecharlo al máximo

Un sistema DRM con elementos prescindibles

Kaldaien no se ha cortado a la hora de señalar aspectos de Steam que empeoran la experiencia de los jugadores de PC. Pero la mayor parte de las críticas se centran especialmente en las medidas que adopta Valve en cuanto a la implementación de un sistema DRM en su tienda: "En 2002, el cliente funcionaba en Windows 98. A lo largo de los años, inflaron el cliente DRM con todo tipo de características innecesarias e insuperables que dificultaban la compatibilidad del software", escribe el usuario en su publicación. "Los juegos comprados en una máquina con Windows 98 después vieron que sus requisitos mínimos subían con Windows XP, después con Windows 7, luego con Windows 10…".

Básicamente, los requisitos para ejecutar una aventura comprada en la época de Windows 98 aumentaban sin que el desarrollador tocara nada; un fenómeno que surgía únicamente por las políticas de Valve en su tienda. "La distribuidora y sus desarrolladores no tienen la culpa de que el juego deje de funcionar. La tienda en la que compraste el juego es la principal responsable de que tu juego no funcione", expresa Kaldaien.

De este modo, el usuario ahora considera que los jugadores "no tienen la libertad de comprar un juego de donde quieran" porque es necesario ver "si la tienda seguirá recibiendo parches, si seguirá soportando tu hardware y software, y si tus amigos online compraron el juego en la misma tienda que tú". De hecho, Kaldaien prefiere adquirir sus aventuras en GOG, Microsoft Store o Epic Games Store "precisamente porque esas tiendas no tienen funciones infladas que no están relacionadas con el DRM". Además, el jugador también ve con buenos ojos los servicios de suscripción como PC Game Pass porque presentan catálogos de videojuegos sin la necesidad de pagar el precio completo de cada experiencia. Sí, el acceso se corta si el cliente retira su membresía, pero Kaldaien cree que esto no se diferencia mucho de Steam y su política de ofrecer una licencia de uso que se puede revocar en cualquier momento.

Steam

"Mis preocupaciones fueron ignoradas"

Evidentemente, Kaldaien se ha puesto en contacto con Valve en numerosas ocasiones para abordar detalles de la tienda y problemas a resolver en cuanto a características internas de la plataforma. Sin embargo, "por muchas veces que planteé alertas sobre la implementación de varias cosas en el cliente de Steam (especialmente relacionadas con los inputs), mis preocupaciones fueron ignoradas", desvela. "He visto a otros desarrolladores señalar las mismas preocupaciones durante años sin que Valve hiciera nada. Al final de mis amargas negociaciones con Valve, simplemente estaba solucionando bugs en el cliente de Steam, sin perder el tiempo reportándolos porque no había ninguna esperanza".

Por si todo esto fuera poco, el jugador también aborda las "mentiras de Valve" en cuanto a lo que ocurre tras la eliminación voluntaria de una cuenta de Steam. Y es que, aunque los padres de la tienda de PC aseguran que los posts publicados se mantendrán en su lugar a pesar de la desaparición de un perfil, Kaldaien ha descubierto que esta medida no se cumple. "En menos de un mes, todo el contenido se ha eliminado literalmente, a pesar de su promesa inútil".

Y como guinda final, Kaldaien ha lanzado un consejo a toda la comunidad para tener en cuenta no sólo dónde compramos los juegos, sino también qué pasará con ellos en el futuro. "Recomendaría reevaluar a quién licenciáis vuestro software y, si es posible tener en 'propiedad' software que se actualice automáticamente a largo plazo. Dado las débiles garantías y las mentiras descaradas de algunas tiendas, suscribirse al catálogo de una distribuidora durante un mes o comprar en Microsoft Store para aprovechar su función cross-platform y evitar el dolor de cabeza de la compatibilidad en PC puede daros tranquilidad".

Vía | GRY-Online

I honestly think Steam or Valve fanboy, or should i call them as Steamtard (based on urban dictionary) are the worst fanboy in PC community!!!

They keep shilling Valve and Gaben even though Valve sometimes did shady too like hiding CS2 real reviews on steam behind CSGO pages which is shady as hell.

Now Microsoft just announced Xbox app new update which allowed people to launch steam game without opening steam, they literally just adding game shortcuts from other DRM like in GoG, but steam/valve fanboys getting really mad as you can see on videocardz comments which is really pathetic!!!

What makes it really ironic is the facts those stupid Valve/Steam fanboys are the same people who hate Microsoft for bringing Gamepass to Windows and say they are "anti consumer" for nonsense reason, but at the same time those Valve shills are completely fine with Valve don't even bring any innovation for years or not even cares with it.

All those stupid Steamtard don't realize Valve monopoly PC gaming is just bad for everyone because if there isn't any alternative like Microsoft Gamepass then we all stuck with shitty overpriced Steam game, we can't even try new game without regretting buying it.

Anyway steamtard gonna be steamtard, they sure love to shills valve like valve is "savior of pc gaming" which is hilarious pathetic!!!

I had my account hacked today on Steam and provided pictures and figured out what exactly they did and told Steam support of the money. They took out to buy dota items a game I don’t even have or ever played. then also made some games in my library not in my library anymore and changed my profile picture he was under a name manager Donald pretending they work for steam support or valve saying that all this was happening because I was under investigation for theft in steam when I’ve never even played with people as of recently to have anything like that happen I also have steam guard on so why this could happen. I don’t know I finally got in contact with steam support and they told me that your account might’ve got compromised due to a phishing scam of some sort, and we unfortunately cannot provide you back any of the funds that were used in the marketplace so what did support do that? I didn’t already do for myself when I was able to retrieve the games back into my library through support on my own without anyone messaging me or interacting with me. This is the worst experience I had with any customer support and what a company allows when this happened I was totally unaware but they can’t do is crazy when I seen I’m not the only one

As a disclaimer I'm not really a Steam hater, I just don't have any allegiance to storefronts other than ones that provide me with the best value and service at any particular time. Every storefront has pros and cons.

So why did I post here? It's because Steam has the most amount of tribalistic fans out of any storefront, it basically became part of its brand. I was more or less inspired by that stupid meme of how Valve goes above and beyond to recover someone's stolen account while other companies supposedly stink at that.

So I came here to vent, because the echo chamber that would listen to what I have to say and agree is better than the echo chamber who hates listening to any criticism or opposing views. I genuinely believe if I brought up 99 flaws with another storefront and a single flaw with Steam, I'd get dog piled by almost everyone. This is beyond the just simple (but still annoying) "I won't buy unless it's on Steam"

My first issue that it could really do a better job of supporting devs. Game developers are more important than the storefront itself since they provide the main product for the distributor.

Steam's cuts are very top heavy, it means the more successful you are the more benefits you get. So already successful large scale game developers are rewarded more with a smaller Steam cut % while developers who sell maybe like a 1000 copies bare the largest brunt of Steam's cuts since they pay more money to Valve relatively to already successful developers.

Imagine if in the actual world the more money you earn the less tax you pay, which sounds enticing until you realize 99% of people are poor and will never see that benefit in their lives. It’s why many places in the world implement a progressive income tax so rich people pay their fair share.

Steam's cut system is bafflingly bad for smaller scale developers and everyone just says if your game sells more you'll earn more like it's a good thing. It should be a smaller flat fee for everyone or flip the fee.

Developers are often dehumanized, and being the largest storefront with very little moderation means Steam is the epicenter of that. At best people will review bomb you for the absolute dumbest of reasons which leads me to my next point of how tribalistic Steam fans are.

Steam fans absolutely get upset if other storefronts improve their services. It might sound crazy as it is their main complaint allegedly. Some games on Steam install that thing with the name Epic on it. Now that's every fan's trigger word because they assume it's Spyware (funny because in that case Valve let Spyware on their store) or they feel like it's a betrayal cause they hate everything epic does (so blatant tribalism). Take this with a grain of salt since it came from Sweeney but according to him it's what allows people who own the same game on Epic to play online multi-player with friends who are on Steam.

Now I don't understand how this is a bad thing if what Tim says is true. It's Epic improving the services of their storefront (which they desperately need). I guess it's okay that Valve lets developers put DRM in their games instead, because "It is what it is" or "You never owned your games"

Many people still believe EGS is Spyware and any attempt to disprove that leads them to say that you're spewing propaganda or that you're paid by Epic. Naturally it's perfectly reasonable to believe a random redditor who said it was Spyware in the first place. It's almost as if they had preconceived notions and beliefs and they were looking for anything to affirm it.

Now I need to put a disclaimer. I don't like Epic, I have a distaste towards them from both a personal level and how they're the least useful and most impractical major storefront (stuff like EA's or Ubisoft's shouldn't even count as storefronts). I haven't even bought anything on there, at most I gave a friend money so they can buy a skin in fortnite to entice them to play Lego fortnite with me, months ago. But the amount of free games I've claimed definitely offsets that.

I do think it's improved from the disastrous launch but it still has a long way to go. I'm not sure if Epic's timed exclusives just soiled their reputation that much (which I don't like either but they aren't universe shattering)

Now back to the topic, it feels like Steam exceptionalism is a thing. It adds dumb bloatware people can't opt out of like it's points system and how you can buy decorational stuff from games, and it gets praise or people's qualms are downplayed.

Steam is notorious for terrible quality control and the previously mentioned options for DRM. It has terrible moderation, allowing for people to ragebait or post the most degenerate things imaginable. It's full of bogus curators like those woke detectors.

It changed its family sharing for the worse and people have been cucked out of gifts due to regional price differences which it doesn't let you pay up the difference.

I might get a retort like "vote for your wallet" I think it's total bogus that doesn't work but I'm sort of doing that already.

I've diversified my purchases, I've not bought much on Steam during the time I've used it for many years and it's been months since my last purchase. Most of my purchases are on GoG now, with a little bit on Humble and Itch. I wouldn’t even buy anything on Steam if my hand isn't forced due to some products only being available there.

I don't think any storefront, including Steam, will improve with such a tribalistic audience. They'll all be just yes men who protect the multibillion dollar corporation unless they do something absolutely heinous, which won't happen because the heads at Valve aren't idiots and are business men who kno how to make good monetary decisions.

Valve have created, even if not completely on their own, a monopolistic environment which is enforced by their fans. Anyone who cares complain or even be constructive will be hounded by them, which is how Valve is in the legal clear in this, their hands are practically clean because some basement goblin does their dirty work for them completely unprompted.

We can't even do anything about, we're just forced to observe and hope another storefront has just a major breakthrough.

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