1bf0b5 No.13617341
game store clients
""Before Steam""
>Buy game from the web
>Download an installer for the game from a the Web.
>Open the installer
>Input CDKey
>Open the game
>Create your profile in game
>Play the game
>Website shuts down
>Can Still play game
""After steam""
>Download launcher
>Create profile
>Buy game from the launcher
>Download and install game
>Play game
>Client shuts down
>Cant play game
b3e3b5 No.13617352
>>13617341
>Implying the client is going to shut down
A thread had to die so you could fear monger.
7f141f No.13617367
>>13617341
Of all the shit you could bitch about in the industry today, and you choose "the client going offline" in which case you can still play your games.
a256ff No.13617384
The down side of the pre-Steam days was trying to patch games. Multiple patches floating around, trying to figure out what is the latest, and whether you can install just the latest or if you need to install a series of them on top of each other, and if any of them are for some other language/region than yours. Then you finally figure it out but the site you want to download from is super slow or wants you to make an account, or worse yet wanted you to pay for service.
c1bf13 No.13617391
>buy Titanfall 2
>box is fucking empty except for a download code and a Battlefield 1 advertisement
7f141f No.13617401
>>13617391
>buying physical
>for a multiplayer game
>from EA no less
Is today just lets all act retarded day?
1bf0b5 No.13617414
>>13617367
There also being the case were you get you account with all your games banned because you offended a bluehaired bull dyke.
f756c9 No.13617446
Before Steam
>pirate game
>install it while listening to fun installer music
>copy crack into game dir if necessary
>play game
After Steam
>pirate game
>install it while listening to fun installer music
>copy crack into game dir if necessary
>play game
21eeeb No.13617459
>>13617414
or that's what you cry about on online forums before people find out all your games were bought from shady russian key resellers and anything that was online you cheated on
c1bf13 No.13617463
>>13617401
This is the first triple-A game I've bought in years. The campaign and movement movement system look really good, so I hope Respawn gets some shekels from the sale.
7a1a87 No.13617523
Steam improved digital downloads. You didn't have to worry about patching the game yourself, or the different sites you bought games from. The fact that the only bad thing you can say about Steam is that it'll shut down one day says everything.
Now if you weren't a faggot you could mention how physical PC games are dying, or how Steam's monopoly on digital games has led to Valve giving up on making actual video games. You could mention how it's packed full of shovelware and Unity asset flips. Or you could mention the real cancer that shouldn't exist:
MICROTRANSACTIONS
In the old days you bought a game and you played it, and everything was fine. Expansions and DLC make sense for adding more content, but publishers pushed further and further until we ended up with the trash we have today.
Nowadays games are made to be microtransaction machines. They play to psychology to make you think that paying for content is fun. They try and hook you onto paying for fun, in the hopes that somebody is retarded enough to empty their bank accounts for imaginary characters.
Games are pushing microtransactions to the forefront now. I'm stuck playing Fortnite because a friend bought it for me, and it's sickening how much they try and get you to pay real money for things. Everything you do is rewarded with fanfare. The game throws free crates at you, and the menu you open them in is full of other options for better crates that cost their ingame currency. They give you a very small trickle of ingame currency to try and get you hooked. The whole game feels like a money sink with a game attached.
And for the record don't bother with Fortnite. It's a tower defense game with a cartoony artstyle. It feels like an evolved phone game.
7c45a5 No.13617544
>Steam Shutting down
>Not cracking any and all your steam games
>Not cracking your games in general
>Implying there is nowhere you can buy games without steam/Steamlike client services
7c45a5 No.13617551
>>13617544
Though I will concede it's super gay that physical copies for anything but Freddie Fish aren't really a thing anymore
01ac2f No.13617559
>>13617544
>>Not cracking any and all your steam games
Why pay for an inferior product to begin with?
Its like telling people to put a condom on their horse cock dildo. Why acquire one in the first place?
7c45a5 No.13617595
>>13617559
Because I can get it for really cheap, virtually free if you consider gabe bucks from the steam market still have some level of compensation to developers who make games I like.
And again I reiterate my other point that there ARE more places besides steam that you can buy games, and steam is so unobtrusive and easy to remove, I don't consider the process of cracking and packing it enough of a pain to outright not buy a game, when they start using drop in the pan pop up drm services on top of steam purchases I have a problem.
It's a value assessment thing.
9e6c58 No.13617742
>Another Anti Steam thread
Isn't this one like the 3rd on the catalog?
Just pirate their shit, fuck how is this hard you goddamn autists?
We got a whole thread and a whole board around bypassing their shitty client, stop trying to fit in, goddamn.
81af32 No.13617819
>Client shuts down
Just DL crack you retard
018c02 No.13617891
>>13617463
I am in that same camp. The game feels fantastic but that stink of EA is all over it. What a sad state of affairs for that IP.
89a6a3 No.13617938
>>13617446
>fun installer music
That music is usually terrible and you know it.
c554ec No.13617957
Normalfags, waifufaggotry and politics.
010c0b No.13617972
>>13617957
Why are you describing /v/?
3004c3 No.13617992
>>13617972
Sounds more like /tv/
6c0f3a No.13618006
>>13617391
First time that happened to me was when I bought portal 2 physical. Empty box with a ducking insert. Last time I bought a physical pc game.
812a86 No.13618014
>>13617523
Oh God, yeah and the fags willing to handwaive it all away too are plenty. Shadow of War has supporters of microtransactions all over the damn place, willing to shill their shit for free.
1a9c9a No.13618016
>>13617446
This is the correct and only way to play
01ac2f No.13618023
>>13617595
>Because I can get it for really cheap
As opposed to literally for free?
>still have some level of compensation to developers who make games I like.
If you're buying it "virtually for free" then the devs are only going to see pennies for your dollar. It seems more like you're trying to expiate your guilt rather than anything tangible.
543bce No.13618028
The main reason I use steam is because all the classic games that I never got to play as a kid are usually really cheap and are almost guranteed to work.
Unless you've managed to get into a private tracker than you're pretty much fucked for piracy these days, especially the only stuff that gets seeded are either megapopular stuff or brand new hot triple AAA garbage that I have no intention of ever playing. I can't tell you how many times I've pirated Bad Mojo only for it to not work at all.
I'm a believer in trying before you buy, but the majority of the stuff I'd like to try have either really deprecated torrents that don't reflect the current game or aren't seeded at all.
I just don't play enough popular games for it to be viable for me.
01ac2f No.13618046
>>13618028
>and are almost guranteed to work
What kind of horseshit are you spewing? Most old games are even worse default because the steam release comes with a poorly configured dosbox release.
>Unless you've managed to get into a private tracker than you're pretty much fucked for piracy these days
Are you really this retarded?
Do you have to be delusional to use steam? Is that a prerequisite as a user or just as an apologist?
6a5255 No.13618051
>>13618028
gog collection torrents are rarer these days but you can still find them. Higher success rate at working on modern systems than Steam's versions (for instance, GOG's Freedom Force works while Steam's still has the Windows7+ mouse icon bug)
543bce No.13618073
>>13618046
>less popular games automatically means DOS games that can usually be found as freeware anyways
>not configuring DOSBox yourself
Your second paragraph is literally not an argument. Show me one good public tracker that has an abundancy of obscure games with the latest updates.
>>13618051
GOG is a godsend for piracy but their library only covers stuff that's had the DRM willingly removed by the content holders.
9cda82 No.13618091
>>13617341
>Steam shutting down
Good one
>>13617391
Remember when MGSV came out and the physical PC version just had a download code and the disc just had a Steam installer on it?
>>13617446
Before Steam
>pirate game
>can play multiplayer as if I had a legitimate copy in most cases
>Not many games with online multiplayer required autistic authentication process
After Steam
>pirate game
>multiplayer will just not work
>or will get you banned in a very short period of time once the server can't authenticate your copy
>or you will have a generic "Player" username in which case you will also get banned very quickly
Don't act like nothing's changed.
c667b4 No.13618098
>>13618073
Most of the old game's creators are either in the dirt or corrupt at this point so there is no point in buying them. Thats why you just pirate them.
01ac2f No.13618104
>>13618073
>>not configuring DOSBox yourself
>pay for a license
>it doesn't even come configured
Are you really this much of a cuck? Don't answer that.
>Show me one good public tracker that has an abundancy of obscure games with the latest updates
>spoonfeed my retarded ass
Kill yourself
89a6a3 No.13618110
>>13618073
Pretty sure rutrackers registration is still open. I could be wrong though.
01ac2f No.13618113
>>13618110
Don't spoonfeed him m8
0b9aef No.13618125
dont underestimate Valve`s love for money
Steam is going to be around forever
even after the civilization collapses
Gaben needs expands his knife collection
89a6a3 No.13618126
>>13618113
My bad. I'm tired. I want to start a new game, but I can't decide which one. Vidyaprocrastination is the worst.
976a6c No.13618138
>>13618126
What are your choices?
4649a2 No.13618154
>>13617446
Before Steam
>pirate game
>install it while listening to fun installer music
>copy crack into game dir if necessary
>play game with friends
After Steam
>pirate game
>install it while listening to shit tier installer music
>copy crack into game dir if necessary
>game requires steamworks to play online
>replace crack with smart steam emu
>game is not yet supported with the current version of SSE
89a6a3 No.13618155
>>13618138
>Rule of Rose or FF3
>Ace combat 5
>some ps1 or 2 jrpg
>a thousand other roms and isos
976a6c No.13618176
>>13618155
I'd recommend Ace Combat 5, but what kind of game do you want to play? I might recommend something.
f756c9 No.13618187
>>13618016
>become a millionaire
>still pirate games
>hire pianist to play the fun installer music while quaffing pirated champagne
>he turns up in jeans and t-shirt
>have him keelhauled after game is installed
89a6a3 No.13618195
>>13618176
Eh, a comfy game to sink time into. I was thinking some rpg maybe. Basically I need something I can really get lost in to help me quit the tobacojew. I guess that's not really specific, just recommend me something you love, anon.
976a6c No.13618210
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>>13618195
If you like JRPGs you might enjoy the Trails in the Sky trilogy. It's a bit of a slow burner and it took me like three playthroughs to actually stick with the first game past the prologue, but once I did I enjoyed myself, the music, the gameplay(to an extent), the chararcters and world, I loved it.
3cdfde No.13618221
>I'm adding a DreamWorks-faced bitch with SJW hair and aggressive posture for the right reasons
89a6a3 No.13618224
>>13618210
I'll give it a try. Thanks, anon.
976a6c No.13618238
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>>13618210
Or if you're looking for a metroidvania the recently released Steamworld Dig 2 really clicked well with me. The game is gorgeous and pretty toaster friendly, the game is motherlode with a side order of platforming and some pretty neat movement mechanics(jetpack+wallrunning+hookshot) and it has one of the most fun optional challenge modes I've seen in a metroidvania, it's like a randomized gauntlet that tests your mastery of all the shit in the game, including basic platforming that might seem impossible if you've never figured out how to time walljumps correctly.
The music's pretty great, appearently it's made by El Huervo too.
520304 No.13618251
>Want to play a guilty pleasure game without my one friend knowing
>Game doesn't come with its own launcher and forces you to install it on steam
Thanks anyway at least I dont have to play a shit game
be5a34 No.13618253
>>13617938
>Bashing on the Fitgirl Repack music
You should be hanged.
976a6c No.13618258
>>13618251
Why would you care, anon?
It's not some furry fapbait, is it?
010c0b No.13618265
>>13618251
>being this insecure in your taste
If your friend is gonna bash you for it tell him to fuck off.
976a6c No.13618273
>>13618238
>wallrunning
Wall jumping.
be5a34 No.13618280
>>13618258
What's that one furshit gay (redundant, I know) Visual Novel?
c46124 No.13618283
>>13617341
Wrong:
Before Steam
>Buy game from store
>Put disk (1/x) into your computer
>Start up install wizard
>Put other disks in if necessary
>Read 15-page manual while installing
>Possibly input a key
>Open the game
>Play the game
>Entire world undergoes nuclear hell
>Insert the main disk
>Play the game
After Steam
>Buy game from store
>Put disk into computer
>Game tells you to set up a Steam account
>Demands key to be inserted
>Have to download remaining files from internet
>Takes fucking forever because of internet
>No install wizard
>Manual is only 5 pages and useless
>Play game
>Entire world undergoes nuclear hell
>Insert the main desk
>No game
>>13617523
>Steam improved digital downloads
Fuck digital downloads.
Digital downloads ruined any potential of playing video games for people living in rural areas.
But, to be fair, it's a blessing in some ways. There aren't any games worth playing with file sizes that big.
010c0b No.13618287
89a6a3 No.13618296
>>13618253
Get better taste in music, faggot.
1db685 No.13618324
>>13617742
I think cuckchan refugees try to fit in, an show how hip and cool they are for hating valve, sometimes using "m-m-muh rental" and "you don't own nuffin, goy" despite at the same time living in a country whose currency is just a fancy rothschild IOU
b4855a No.13618337
> CURRENT YEAR + 2
> he uses Steam
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FAGGOT
fa6539 No.13618357
>>13618091
You're supposed to pick LAN while using a VPN like Tuungle or Hamachi, or pick direct connect to your friend not connect to official servers.
Before Steam
>get game
>make an account / enter username & pass
>connect to server
>play game
After Steam
>get game
>use steam id as log-in credentials
>connect to server
>play game
>get trading requests from 10 different people because you were given a rare cross-promotional item for free for owning another game on steam
>you get a steam trading card for having the game open for an hour
>you also get trade requests because people want to complete their card's set
>some very obvious scammer sends friend request, messages you, and tries to phish for your account
>(optional: you turn off public inventory view because the shit is annoying as fuck and you don't care about 1000 different 25 cent game assets)
>some microtransaction item drops
>game tries to shill a lootcrate key to you
fa6539 No.13618402
>>13618357
I almost forgot.
After Steam
>game-ify account features such as extending your friends list capacity based on your steam level
>some other shit like profile aesthetics, emoticons, and coupons
b20634 No.13618435
Holy god how many of these threads do we need to have EVERY DAY?
We fucking get it you don't like Steam
9e6c58 No.13618449
>>13618324
Its exactly like pre Witcher 3 release and all the GOGshills that came fromthat shithole, holy fuck
I don't give a shit about Steam, I know Steam is shit and pretty much anyone here knows Steam is shit and no better than being a consolefag and that piracy always wins.
I mean, I understand one circlejerk talking about it, but we got like 3 fucking thread on the catalog about this shitty fucking service.
010c0b No.13618477
>>13618402
>>13618357
Nigger all those fucking complaints are entirely avoidable, and the last two are just symptoms of games at large no matter the platform. There's many reason to shit on steam, but use ones that are actual issues.
543bce No.13618500
>>13618098
Plenty of GOOD developers are self-published. I don't buy anything from EA/Zenimax/Ubishit so I'm not concerbed about inadvertently supporting the cancer that is most modern publishers.
>>13618104
>being so butthurt you can't give a reasoned answer and ignore half the question
>hurrdurr do what I say but I won't explain how :^)
>living such a sheltered life that you have time to be assmad at total strangers on the internet
You can't give an answer because you don't have one.
>>13618110
Rutracker is good for a lot of things but up to date vidya isn't one of them. I use it all the time for hard to find music but I'm not going to find an up to date version of Rodina or a copy of Original War that has the widescreen support update.
c667b4 No.13618523
>>13618500
>Plenty of GOOD developers are self-published.
Name em, remember that you specifically used old games as an excuse.
107388 No.13618527
>>13618091
>>13618154
>Being a multiplayercuckpleb
17cf2f No.13618536
>>13617341
WE GET IT YOU VAPE
23f2a0 No.13618538
>>13617341
"gamur vision"
I don't have any footage on hand, but it's that thing where hold down a button and everything around gets highlighted with a red outline.
It's fucking terrible and I hate it.
89a6a3 No.13618549
>>13618500
I mainly use it for music and movies, too.
Real problem with piracy for me is how hard it has become to find games in any other language but english. English is fine for most games, but with grand-strategy e.g. I prefer it in my mother tongue.
>>13618523
Wasn't this guy in a shitty metal band or am I thinking of another sjw?
c667b4 No.13618558
>>13618549
>not knowing all the SJWs like characters from a comedy series
b01033 No.13618594
Literally just go to the steamapps folder and find the game. Unless the game uses Steam for some kind of online service, it'll run just fine without you having to launch Steam.
543bce No.13618606
>>13618523
>specifically used old games as an excuse
You have a reading comprehension problem. I've already said all of this before so here I will reiterate again.
I buy old games through steam because they are often too difficult to find via a torrent and with the latest compatability updates. Notice the old games I had used an example were BAD MOJO and ORIGINAL WAR as an example for this earlier.
And I said GOOD DEVELOPERS are self published in reference to NOT SUPPORTING MODERN PUBLISHERS like EA/ZENIMAX/UBISOFT.
Here are some self published I played very recently:
Rodina
EYE Divine Cybemancy
Fucking Mount & Blade
Postal 1 and 2
You don't seem to understand this, but if you don't actually support the games you want to play then the endless hordes of normalfags will be only the driving force for any game development whatsoever, unless it's purely a labor of love like Dwarf Fortress, than you have no excuse to bitch and whine when every game is an Overwatch/Destiny clone in a few short years.
I agree that buying games from dead developers doesn't support them, but you're the one putting the opposite words in my mouth. Try actually reading everything I wrote and stop being so poised and ready to get triggered.
30761a No.13618634
>>13617341
>""Before Steam""
>Buy game from the web
>BUY GAME FROM THE WEB
BUY GAME FROM THE WEB
>not pirating the damn game
>not going to the fucking store and buy the damn game at a discount because you liked it
>AFTER STEAM
>mfw using steam
a4ee67 No.13618642
>>13617384
Remember when Gameshack was like the godsend of organization? "You mean this site has all the patches, and also demos of other games? Fuck yis"
f934fc No.13618661
>>13618221
>that disgusting rubber cartoon style
nothing could save it anyway
a3b088 No.13618790
>>13618187
wow that's really good. sauce?
7a1a87 No.13618832
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>>13618790
If it's the original song you want, it's this
a6434c No.13619517
>>13617391
i haven't bought a single physical copy since the first time that happened to me.
6d84b5 No.13619554
>>13617384
>patches are numbered
>trying to figure out which one is the latest
325523 No.13619591
>>13617341
>>Buy game from the web
Yeah, that never happened before steam.
fa6539 No.13627561
>>13618477
>Nigger all those fucking complaints are entirely avoidable, and the last two are just symptoms of games at large no matter the platform. There's many reason to shit on steam, but use ones that are actual issues.
Valve/Steam made those popular, and also makes it easy to integrate for developers i.e account inventories and Steam trades.
a3b088 No.13631254
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>>13618832
no, I wanted the piano, but thanks. It was a related video
0d8cf7 No.13631281
>Clients shuts down
>Can't play game
What? Literally what games do this?
e56cc9 No.13631300
>>13617414
steam has a community moderation policy making it nearly impossible to get your account banned
0d060e No.13631320
>>13617957
you forgot no fun allowed
2e4401 No.13631394
>>13617352
t. steamfag
I thought we killed you all?
2e4401 No.13631404
>>13617384
>The down side of the pre-Steam days was trying to patch games
HAHHAAHAHAaaAahaahahahAHAHa
no
1203ab No.13631511
>>13617523
>Steam improved digital downloads
83c31a No.13631514
>>13618251
>He doesn't know about offline mode
>He doesn't know you can set your status to offline while not being in offline mode
>He doesn't know you can block and unblock users at will
Gee whiz you guys sure are ignorant of the things you hate. Almost as if you're a retard and have no thoughts of your own, relying on the consensus of the board to do your thinking for you. Please get off my board.
1203ab No.13631559
>>13618283
>people living in rural areas don't get to have nice things wahhh
So what, who gives a shit a about some racist drumpfcucks out in the middle of nowhere? smjtbqhlad
4c91c5 No.13631605
>>13617341
before steam
>PC gaymen is dead
after steam
>PC gaymen is alive
c606f2 No.13632044
>>13631404
Yes. You're probably too young to know of times where people downloaded installers and then had to download patches seperately off of sites like filefront, or when it wasn't made clear if the games were the latest version, so you'd download patches you didn't need. You're probably also too young to remember having to manually check for potential patches, or having to scour the internet for them when the links were dead. It was also real fucking neato when you had to download the game and then apply a series of 10 patches in order as opposed to just downloading the game.
There is literally nothing to be romanticized about downloading full gigabytes of data through the tin can and a string anyone uploaded patches to. Patches are actually the most attractive thing about game launching clients. You are functionally retarded if you're arguing about patches.
>>13618221
She would look a lot better if she were 20 years older and had all-white hair as opposed to white bangs and didn't look like an early 2000s animated movie character
>>13618091
>After Steam
>>pirate game
>>multiplayer will just not work
It is actually easier to pirate multiplayer games than ever. I've played many pirated games with friends using some fake Steam emulation software. Private servers are becoming incredibly widespread, as well. The last one we played was Stellaris. The rest of it is either direct connect, hamachi/gameranger bait or the online only is too strong.
>>13631514
>>He doesn't know about offline mode
>>He doesn't know you can set your status to offline while not being in offline mode
>>He doesn't know you can block and unblock users at will
Literally none of that keeps the game from appearing in your recently played games and played game history, you fucking pancake. Why would you write all that stupid shit and then call someone stupid?
706eb3 No.13632950
>>13632044
>She would look a lot better if she were 20 years older and had all-white hair as opposed to white bangs
True. You can't take seriously a commander that isn't at least 50. Battle scars for more prestige.
dcf830 No.13633362
d9bdde No.13636678
>>13617391
I hate this bullshit. Installing from disc is a lot faster than downloading the fucking game.
b111e3 No.13636885
>>13618221
>with SJW hair
but white is not part of the rainbow, anon.
ac19a1 No.13636936
c65653 No.13636939
>>13636885
But white light contains all of the colors of the rainbow anon.
7fbae1 No.13636952
>>13618337
Lurk more, newfag.
3cdfde No.13636969
>>13636885
Shit, you're right.
7fbae1 No.13636979
>>13618357
>playing CS:Go the fuck back to cuckchan
>playing TF "Lets just shit on our art design" 2
56d143 No.13637086
>>13618036
>search for white person
<Google gives you 6 niggers
but muh ~diversity~
58b43f No.13637158
>Cancer that you wish didn't exist in video games
Anime
b61725 No.13637218
>>13617391
>buy Titanfall 2
>inside is a normal fucking game disc that goes in my PS4
>play tons of Titanfall 2
Hmm, really makes you drink.
366ea6 No.13637236
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49df52 No.13637253
>>13637218
>FPS on a console
kys
b604ab No.13637264
>>13617341
Going to play devil's advocate here
Before Steam
>Buy game
>Comes on 10 CDs
>If any of them are broken or slightly scratched, the install fails
>QA and system compatibility weren't things anyone worried about
>Some games just wouldn't fucking run no matter what you did
>luckily, game stores were staffed by retards back in the day, so getting a refund wasn't too hard
>if you got the game to work, you might be stuck with the one version on those disks, for better or worse
>If they've patched it since launch, you might not even know to go find the patch files
>…or you might be waiting for hours after your game finishes installing because it needs to install all the patches
>Downloading installers came later
>But internet speeds fucking sucked back in the day either way
>and most companies had to use 3rd party hosts for their files because bandwidth and file hosting was fucking expensive to do on their own
010c0b No.13637268
>>13637218
>then pay for online to be able to play the game
Really activates the almonds
9d9b0b No.13637280
>>13618221
This guys name is familiar, I feel as if i've been disgusted by him before. Who is he?
263cac No.13637283
5dbcda No.13637289
Consoles past the Xbox.
<Before Xbox
>hook console up to TV
>put game in console
>play game
>if it's shit, pawn it off to a friend for a good game
<After Xbox
>hook up console
>put game in console
>wait for console to boot
>download system update
>download patch for game
>wait for game to load
>ignore ads for DLC
>play game
>game is still broken after the patch
>wait for another patch down the line
>never comes
Same for Steam, honestly, always need to update either it or the games. Most times I would just pull up an emulator while it's patching and by the time it's done, I'm already into the old game and don't care for the newer one.
But the whole argument of consolefags was "lol pcs take ages to start up and are hard to get to work, a console's just plug and play xd!" and that hasn't been the case for over two generations.
831579 No.13637309
>>13617341
>Go to game store
>buy pc game
>put game into pc
>"please log into steam"
4c91c5 No.13637320
>>13637309
>implying game stores still sell pc games
049b08 No.13637322
>>13637280
Stardock CEO, pro-GG.
5b27d5 No.13637325
>>13618221
Female characters have existed in games for decades, don't be an idiot. Design is still garbage though.
>>13637280
Stardock's CEO, got falsely accused of sexual harassment by some woman trying to sue(that he fought and won) and had sites like Kotaku and the others try to ruin him over it.
5b27d5 No.13637345
>>13637320
Some stores do and this is really fucking annoying to me, I used to buy from stores particularly because my internet speed is garbage and this saved on download time, then they started doing this so I have to wait a few days for downloads to finish.
9d9b0b No.13637375
>>13637322
>>13637325
Has he done anything SJW-y lately? It might just be the simpsons avatar if thats the case
Considering how pozzed simpsons is nowadays
35304d No.13637380
>>13637325
I was under the impression that Stardock and Brad Wardell were alright. Pretty decent software and strategy games. Has Brad done a Tim Schafer?
5b27d5 No.13637435
>>13637380
>Has Brad done a Tim Schafer?
No. There's a female captain and people are acting like any female protagonist is automatically SJW garbage because they've been burned by too many companies that actually are like that and its now a conditioned response.
35304d No.13637491
>>13637435
That follows. Interesting that a white guy running a 4x factory implements women better than (((diverse))) women do.
Interesting =/= surprising, of course.
3c868f No.13637504
>>13617401
Sounds like straight up bait and switch.
58b43f No.13637761
>>13637283
what did you mean by this.
049b08 No.13637921
>>13637435
It's not just because it's a female captain, people saw the hair and thought of pic related.
fa6539 No.13637957
>>13637921
White bangs or white areas in hair, even in youth and not even as a part of greying hair, is actually naturally occurring.
049b08 No.13637998
>>13637957
Yeah, but people are so sick of that shit, they get paranoid. Regardless, it's not a very good design.
d6aaae No.13638020
""Before Steam""
>no steam
""After steam""
>steam
wtf happened!?
4c91c5 No.13638023
>>13637998
>Regardless, it's not a very good design.
Though that's honestly because of the shitty Pixar artstyle than anything else.
5b27d5 No.13638077
>>13637998
>>13637957
>>13638023
While true, a shitty character design is a horrible reason to overreact and say Wardell's trying to pander to SJWs after everything he's gone through.
c5ceab No.13638769
>>13617352
>myspace will never die guys, it's basically a monopoly