I like Steam, so your arguments are invalid.

>Bloated

The industry is bloated.

>DRM on top of DRM (yo dawg)

Nope. Your Steam account is the only DRM associated with Steam. No SecureROM or Starforce. No limited installs. Only real limit is 1 person logged into an account at any given time.

>Terrible with launch dates

Accurate, but it is still better than any store since you don't even have to leave the house to get it, and you don't have to pay $10+ for shipping to get it the day after release.

>They can completely buttfuck you and block your account with ALL YOUR GAMES should you do something illegal (Remember Modern Warfare 2 and the CD keys?)

Activision forced them to do that, not Steam. Steam isn't to blame in any way for that. Also, you only lost Modern Warfare 2 for that, not ALL YOUR GAEMS. Even if you are caught hacking, you are only VAC Banned, which only excludes you from VAC Secured servers. It's a really good anti-cheating system for the rest of us that play legitimately.

>The only thing its got going is weekly discounts on five years old games

Cheaper than any discount you could find for a game twice as old in a store.
Also, preorder bonuses (Bioshock 2 is 10% off until release, comes with Bioshock 1 for free that you can gift to a friend.)

Steam also has a community function built right in, so it's better than most methods of distribution for that sole purpose.

>>48755555
VAC secured servers for that particular game

I'd rather get buttfucked by Valve than by any other shitty game company. Fuck you OP.

Steam is:

The reason PCs are better than consoles.

>>48754746
Except the weekly discounts on five year old games are still more expensive than getting them through GoG.

Must be the DRM you're paying for.

I agree, steam is shit.

That said, the game industry today is mostly shit, so... whatever.

Why are people so terrified of Steam blocking their account or taking their games away?

You're using a PC for fuck's sake, lrn2pirate

>>48755555

>>48755555
>55555
THE GOD OF ALL GETS
FIVE FIVES

THIS MAN IS NOW A GOD

They legally cannot take away games you have purchased, unless Valve developed the game, they have no legal rights over that game at all.

That is like saying, Game/Gamestop can take your games off of you if you cheat in them.

Watch out all you cheaters. The Gamestop agents are coming to take all your games off of you!

>>48755555
Holy shit a Pentagonal!

>Thinks Steam sucks..

>Doesn't realize PC gaming is dead anyway.

>>48756297
logic fail

>>48756329
>Doesn't know Steam users doubled in 2009

Fuck Steam.

Valve hasn't had an original idea in years. The fact that all of you so blindly defend them makes me sick.

>>48756456

Nope. It is exactly the same.

Steam is just a digital version of a Gamestop store.
Valve have as much right to take games off of you that you have purchased as a Gamestop clerk does.

>>48756280
Psst, everything he posted is also correct.

>bloated

Steam is currently using 19MB of memory
I have 6GB
I think I can live with that.

Steam is basically the last legs of PC gaming, before it shrivels up & dies off completely.

>>48756713
God help us...

>>48756545
yeah, fuck them for being successful businessmen and a shining gem in the PC community's crown

>Bloated
That's not Steam, that's Gabe.

>have a good pc
>never cheat
>be american
>have no problems with steam

Thou enraged

>>48756884
How can you not love Steam? Come on, the head guy of the company the runs Steam is a fucking whale. A GOLD MINE of jokes.

That alone makes Steam a God.

You are now aware that Steam started the entire online activation and bundled DRM business.

Valve killed PC gaming.

>>48756810

Shining gem? You realize that Steam is a glorified game store, tell me when it isn't trying to sell you something.

>>48756939
This. Except I'm not american, but I love it anyway.

Steam weekend deals

>>48757005
It's not trying to sell me something every time I boot it up and never so much as look at the "Store" tab.

>>48757005
Yea, why can't companies like, not care about making money?

>>48757064
>>48757005
>>48757002
DOHOHOHOHO

You are now aware that Steam is the fairest and least intrusive DRM mechanism you could hope for

>>48757005
Are you trolling? It never bothers you except on bootup. Fuck you.

>>48757002
Bullshit.

>>48757005
So stores also have server browsers and friends lists built into the games they sell?
Cool, I'm going to go down to GameStop and join my friend in a game of HL2DM.

op is poorfag

>>48757260
And not even then. If you're talking about the little popups about new games and deals, I turned those off years ago.

>Steam Christmas Sale
>Buy more vidya than I know what to fucking do with at insane prices
>Don't have to worry about fighting crowds to maybe get what I want

>>48756713
Valve has 25 million user accounts

>implying that steam doesn't automatically patch my games and allow me to migrate my game collection easily

>>48756713

There have been fags like you claiming pc gaming is dead since the SNES release back in 1984. Get new arguments pl0x.

OH YES LET'S TALK SHIT ABOUT THE LAST GOOD THING TO HAPPEN TO PC, WHY THE FUCK NOT.
FUCKING HELL /v/ IS THERE -SOMETHING- YOU DO LIKE, AT ALL?

Sorry but, when I want third parties shitting on my gaming. I'll ask. The same way I didn't bother with any fucking DLC for Fallout 3. I don't want to deal with the fucking Games for Windows Live bullshit. I hate that they try to force me to be a part of this so called "Gamers community."

I'm a gamer because I'm an anti-social fuck and don't care about achievements or any of that nonsense. I really just want to go to the store, buy a game, and sit in my room alone and play it. That's the nature of vidya.

It's horse shit when good game companies get Microsoft or Valves dick jammed in their ass.

>>48755555
Sure is valve virals around here.
Go back to bed gabe.

Impulse has better DRM than Steam does - you only have to activate the game online once, and then you never have to run Impulse again. You can even uninstall it,although you'll need it for updates.

That being said, Steam games can still have their own DRM. SecurROM can still come with a Steam game.

>>48757792
>implying valve are that desperate

>>48757734
Not all of us are lonely virgin shutins. Some of us actually like multiplayer.

>>48757948

Then play a different game besides Shit Fortress 2.

Fuck, even battlenet is a better service than Steam.

>>48757948

Acceptable. Regardless. They should make such things and option for people who care about community and let the people who want to be left alone have that right too. It's not hard to do both. They're just all "profit before product" cunts now.

>>48757734
The whole community feature is optional. It isn't a required part of Steam.
You don't want to talk to people? Don't add them to your Friend's list or don't sign into Friends.

>>48757792
You're a fucking retard you know that.
I'm just a Steam user and Supporter since it is one of the best programs I've ever used. The biggest problem I've run into with it is the occasional fuckup that prevents me from playing every game on my list, but after the first time that happens and you learn what the problem is, it takes 5 minutes to fix. (ClientRegistry.BLOB corruption.)

Other than that, there are no problems with Steam that justify all the hate you Anti-Popular faggots throw at it.

>>48758112
I play a lot of non-Steam multiplayer games. The multiplayer experience is no better or worse.

>>48757897
Right. Steam is just an online distro with automatic patchan, a built-in community, and some good deals ($2 Psychonauts anyone?).

>>48754746

Is this what Gabe does when he's not working on Episode 3?

>Implying he has even started working on it

>>48758353
>I'm anti-social faggot and don't want communities fucking up my gaming
>I THINK I'LL PLAY A MULTIPLAYER GAME!

It's the MULTIPLAYER part, not the Steam part.

>>48758194
>Steam is one of the best programs I've ever used
Ahaha oh wow. You really expect me to believe you're not a Valve shill after typing that nonsense?

Piss off, your kind isn't welcome here. Nobody with a brain would willingly install that shitty DRM on their system. Oh wait, those "mainstream gamers" that you so happily associate yourself with are all fucking retards and will buy whatever Gabe tells them to because it's cheap.

>>48758654
>Valve shill
>OH SHIT HE LIKES WHAT I HATE
>TROLL TROLL YOUR OPINION DOESN'T MATTER
>I'LL JUST STUFF MY EARS AND YELL SO I CAN'T HEAR YOU
>I CAN'T HEAR YOU I CAN'T HEAR YOU

Cool argument.

I had a very bad experience with Steam.

About one month ago I bought Empire Total War in a store for celebrating my new pc, but I didn't knew it required Steam.

No problem, I think to myself, it will just certify the key.
No.
After the install it automatically began the fucking update progress, and since I had a fucking internet problem those days I was downloading a 1GB+ patch at 18-20 kbps.

I uninstall and think:This time I'll uncheck the automatic update box in the Empire properties, so I will play.

LOL NO STILL UPDATEAN'.

Long story short, I had to wait 18 hours for playing a fucking game I BOUGHT IN A FUCKING STORE JESUS CHRIST.

Other than that, with Team Fortress 2 works really fine, it's only that I like to actually leave my house when going to buy games, because I like that child-like feeling I get when I enter a videogame store.

>>48758833
>greentext greentext, no legitimate arguments and instead just complains about "trolls"

Viral marketer status confirmed. Saged and reported, enjoy your permaban.

I love Steam.

>>48758924
Wow, you really are an idiot.
Why should I use an argument when you aren't even arguing?

I've never had an issue with Steam and launch dates, currency conversion (because I'm American), or DRM on DRM. Steam is always forthcoming about additional DRM packed into a game, it's never a surprise at the last minute. The only problem I personally have ever had with Steam was when I purchased the THQ Complete Pack and thought I could give the games in it I already owned on Steam away to friends. Apparently that function only works for specific titles, which the pack wasn't. Still a relatively minor gripe.

well if you don't like Steam try Impulse

>>48759040
I don't argue with people who are being paid to post on a forum.

>>48758924
Lol'd and reported.

>>48758924
>enjoy your permaban

>>48759101
>currency conversion

Cool this game is only 49 dollars, it means 35 € !

>lol get "X" game for only 50 € !!!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-

>>48755555
GOD'S WORD IT'S MUST BE TRUE

>>48759117

What retard would pay people to post something on /v/?

That's just pissing away money, and is easily the worst way to advertise anything, as we hate everything.

>>48759288

I can see how that's a serious issue if you're not paying in US Dollars, definitely. But like I said, as an American paying in that currency it doesn't affect me.

>>48759434
>implying it didn't worked well with Borderlands and Mass Effect 2

>>48759434
I hate you. I also hate vowels.

>>48759567
>Hurrrr durrr nobody else matters every other country doesn't exist except mine
Typical amerifag logic.
You are the cancer killing the world economy and you're the cancer killing video games.

>>48759773

>>48759117

>I'M A FATLUS PLEASE RAPE MY ASS

>>48759773

What ?

I was just weaktrolling, where did I talked of America ?

>This thread

>People actually defending digital distribution and DRM solely on the fact that they got shitty Psychonauts for $2

>You get fucked over if you do something illegal

Gee. That's a bad thing?

I like Steam. I find it rather useful. The games are usually quite nicely priced and I can get them right to my laptop, and I can chat to people I meet on multiplayer games easily.

>>48759567

>implying it didn't worked well with Borderlands and Mass Effect 2
>didn't worked well

Regardless of your shitty grammar, /v/ was crazy for Borderlands and ME2 due to the sheer amount of hype. Every single thread about either game was made by someone that just wanted to talk about videogames.

But hey, it's /v/. We aren't allowed to talk about videogames. So, uncut or cut?

>>48760478
>implying all the 10% OFF PREORDER NOW threads were actually "someone that just wanted to talk about videogames"

>>48759117
I wish I was being paid just so I was getting paid to piss of some massive faggot that can't understand people like things that they don't and their opinion isn't the word of Cthulhu.

Just so happens that my word is the word of Cthulhu.

>Unfair currency conversion rates

this

>>48759288
In the UK at least, game prices are slightly lower than the US prices (current exchange rate)

>>48760699
My god, you really think there are /v/iral marketers that market to /v/?

Wow, you must think VERY highly of yourself to think that people were paid to make video game threads on "super leftist 4chan which provides child pornography to pedophiles".

>>48760769
I understand that you like it, I just think you're retarded and cancerous for liking it.

Plus if you're posting on here about how much you like it and you aren't getting paid for it, you're wasting your time.

>>48754746

>should you do something illegal

Stop being a common criminal perhaps?

Holy shit people sure can be ignorant motherfuckers.
>I DON'T LIKE IT SO EVERYONE THAT DOES IS A VIRAL MARKETER. CONSPIRACY LOL REPORT SAGE BAN MOD TIT ASS COCK POOGLE
That being said i've never had a problem with steam and been using it for as long as i can remember. Great system really.

>>48760950
Brotip: Everyone on here is a fat neckbeard moralfag who watches too much Kenshiro and would gladly pay for shitty games on a distribution channel instead of pirating or getting up to go to a game store because they somehow think it "supports developers."

>>48761204
Like I said earlier, go back to bed gabe

>>48761395

Giving money to the fucking developers isn't supporting them?

Holy shit. Really dude?

>>48761035
>you aren't getting paid for it, you're wasting your time.
>Discussion Board
>Discussions should be unbalanced in favor of my opinion unless the other should is being paid

You should be getting paid by Impulse or some other service to spread the Steam Haet.
You aren't? Oh, well then, you're wasting your time.