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This is the kind of fun jank and efficiency I love that you can’t get in whole open world maps. This is they made the map match the game they want the player to experience and not the game that fits on that specific open map.

You are not the hero here. Just another jerk.

You started in with being extremely rude so I’m just gonna move to ignoring your other commentary now.
Shocking I know.

So, you think a good way to correct someone is to directly insult them because you find their points unrelated but yours perfect? Rude. And the only thing steam controls via contract is the ability to sell your games via steam keys for price parity.

And you misunderstood my point. RuneScape isn’t even on the epic game store so you aren’t reading my words carefully. You are projecting your own hypocrisy.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

That’s the policy on steam keys. If you are not using their steam keys it’s not covered by their contract agreement at least.

The lawsuit is not yet finished and while we can take their complaints into account we can’t take them for fact.
The case was already dismissed once because they argued the 30% was controlling the market but it’s been there since day 1 of their storefront and has not changed to force game price changes. Beyond that they argue that Valve bought servers to take them offline to push players to them but… That’s not really on this point of price controlling or the ability sell non steam keys.

Literally RuneScape does this by offering memberships not available on steam.

If you see something I am missing from the lawsuit please let me know, preferably without the hostility if you can manage.

Right. Ok then. You have wasted enough of your time. I hope you figure out how to make your life less miserable through actions rather than complaints.

And you’rs has been non existent while you are making responses of a period to just have the final comment.

My opinion of your contribution is accurate to what you have, and my contribution has been me conversing with someone who doesn’t care.

I’m gonna stop responding now. Feel free to think about things, or just post your follow-up comment so you can get your tiny victory with no meaning that means we know you lack the maturity to understand your actions.

I am asking you to explain your point. You can not rely on making others do your work for you.

That is you obstructing your point through others. Make your point and make it clearly since you seem insistent on doing so.
Effort is not dropping a link and thinking it argues on your behalf.

And you insist on getting the final word. You want it and your wants are not able to always be met which causes strife. You view silence from those you bully against as your victory for shutting them up.

Yeah that. That’s what I’m talking about. It’s like a tantrum.

Pure emotional response to hopefully get one from others. You are a bully.

Consider me not in your head to understand your perspective and try to get it across clearly to me. No sarcasm or condescending tone.
I do not see how these are comparable and don’t think of steam as a utility that owns the singular option for infrastructure as it’s a digital service that others can and will spin up to avoid using Steams backend.
They literally don’t have to.

And sure I am welcome to information if it is accurate and you have it.

You are acting like a bully because you are upset about something and have decided to take it out on the largest target you could find and anyone that doesn’t agree with you, or your method of acting like a bully.

You think I’m wasting your time? Boy howdy do I have a mind blower for you.

You are wasting your own time. I can’t do anything to it.

And you are being pretty good at wasting that and yourself already. Wasting time by not even bothering looking at yourself and your actions is gonna delay you a lot.

It wouldn’t be a public utility they would be a company that needs to make a profit still and would find a way to do so with fees on downloads.

And humble does not pay the 30% if you buy in their storefront currently.

So your complaint is that prices are high and getting rid of Steam would alter that?

So now you decided to be condescending because you view yourself as a superior human and deface yourself to what you think others are like? Wow. That’s awful.

Wait but you can link Humble to steam and it checks what games you already own.

GOG wants you to just have the local game files and an installer so they don’t need this and don’t need Valve’s backend. Why pay valve for each download when you can host it yourself and not worry about the fee? Itch seems to agree with that.

And then wouldn’t everyone still be using Valve as a backend and they would have a monopoly on the infrastructure of all game downloads then? And could charge high rates to download?

Oh so like how I can buy my steam keys on fanatical but still download and play them via the steam backend while using a different frontend like LaunchBox?

And Steam could take a 30% fee on transactions while using their service?

Something like that?

And you think others can’t argue when you lower yourself to the floor in order be angry without purpose. Smearing yourself in mud to show us just makes you a mess.

Question from the back?
How would Valve be broken up?
Would it be game developer and store front separated?
How would that aid or assist in the purchasers?

Only if you are selling a steam key elsewhere, they ask you to treat them equivalently but that doesn’t mean you can’t do sales for your products on other platforms.

It’s a little weird cause it would be like buying an apple app on android to use on apple but apple doesn’t get the 30% anymore so they ask you to at least price it about the same so people don’t avoid buying from them completely.

Off topic

I was really interested in VR after trying it a bunch of times and when Microsoft did their whole partnered VR headsets thing they failed so miserably I managed to get one for like $60 brand new.

And then I realized it works well for like an hour tech demo and playing around in short bursts but otherwise is just a TV strapped to your face, hot and sweaty and kinda uncomfortable and your eyes kinda hurt after a while and the games kinda all sucked since no one had a sense of hardware capabilities…

It’s hyper niche and isn’t really for everyone but how could companies argue against a TV strapped to your face.

Can I be completely honest? The libertarian contested definition aside the thing that made me realize you were being purposefully obstinate and contrarian for your own giggles was;

While I appreciate USB-C port at the top so you can rest your Switch on your legs and charge it at the same time, that’s not exactly convenient.

Literally the definition of convenient is it being more accommodating or more comfortable or easy to do.

Having 2 ports on either side that charge and do data is incredibly convenient and much better than a singular since charging is a constant of all wireless electronics and this makes that process more convenient.

And then the person you were chatting to responded practically that and you bailed the conversation cause you couldn’t be contrarian.

You are purposefully stubborn and acting in a way that doesn’t make you even different it’s just a similar as always level of self righteous.

No I don’t care about that. I don’t fit in either but actively being rude is not just not fitting in but being purposefully rude.

There is a difference and your refusal to acknowledge that is so that you can avoid having to look at yourself and your actions critically.

You don’t have to change but there are repercussions from the existence of others seeing your actions and if you don’t care about them do not expect others to care about you.

You are not exposing stuff. You are acting like a childish jerk who stubbornly ignores other people for your own sense of righteousness.

Doubling down and refusing to listen to others does not make you a better person in the long run.

In so happy for Inner/Outersloth.

I really hope they end up like a new Annapurna with just some banger indie titles that’s good for the industry instead of a rich brats ego.

I’m now replacing this game with Clockwork Revolution to keep an eye on since it’s the producer of the first 2 fallout games.

I also do not understand people’s desire to be part of the group so much they buy things that aren’t what they want and just play it anyways. I think it’s just all forms of addiction.

That and the completely garbage inventory with no good filter and sort.

That first game felt like a demo with lot of polish but didn’t feel like a precursor for an $80 game. And already cost me $30 for the first time of meh.

Catherine deserves to be on someone’s list so glad you have it and Gravity rush is a good choice cause it was a fun use of mechanics.

I still think the series is actually the best Space Opera and I do mean opera. But they have some great stories.

I’d love another Riddick game too. I’ll settle for the 4th movie I guess for now

I do think the Spyro games are probably the absolute best of the collect-a-thon genre. Joyful and fun and with fun puzzles. I am worried I am too biased to say it though since I have 120%/100%/117% beat the games multiple multiple multiple times.

Right… So what game gets the most of those bits the most right?

That’s how you start to separate out the best. Not that complex.

How do you even begin to care about anything in that game when you are basically mashing buttons for hours and just listening to people complain about how shit life is?

I get its an art piece of living the existence you are thrown into but it feels like a confusing mess even gameplay wise for the starting hours that people that have finished it I feel miss how unfun it is at first.

I didn’t even know why I was now stuck on the other side of a wall in a union dispute and I just couldn’t be bothered to restart the game to try something else after how long it took to get dressed the first time.

It’s such a good puzzle box but I don’t think I would call The Room, a masterpiece while it’s still yet another great puzzle box game.

They are masterpieces in puzzles but maybe not games? I dunno why I don’t consider them.

I always forget how absolutely awesome Escape From Butcher Bay is until I’m reminded of its existence and its shockingly unfair to that game.

So I think it’s actually really important that the games that would be considered objective masterpieces would have to overcome any language barriers and be an experience approachable by anyone. You can learn the mechanics to enjoy the gameplay without words
So:

• Portal
• Journey
• Binding of Isaac
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Metro 2033 (which I have sat on and I believe even if it was entirely in Russian you would still get it )
• DOOM (original you don’t need words you shoot)
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Katamari Damacy

Then there are dialogue option stories that are fantastic stories that I could consider greats but shareable masterpieces is hard to say as they rely on you speaking the language both literally and then gameplay wise:

• Stanley Parable
• Outer Wilds
• Tales From the Borderlands
• To the Moon
• Talos Principle
• Golf Club Wasteland
• Dead Space

You are wrong about borderlands as there is one more and it is pretty muc h perfect.

Tales from the Borderlands.
Shame they never made a sequel for it but the artistry, music and story are all so well crafted. Someone loved Borderlands making that.

I would absolutely put that game up high on the lists as it is a perfect piece of atmospheric gameplay of misery incarnate.