ROFL, what on earth gave you that impression? There are times when it seems to be all people do here.

And my 2 cents: Consumer choice is very rarely a bad thing, the more options and free market competition there is, the better off we will all be.

For Steam Ukraine/Russia have generally far lower prices than US/EU, Like -40 to -60% if you convert it to US/EU currency. But yeah it's mostly those regions that benefit.

Yes, Interstate and Gorky 17 are a problem, but overall GOG always does it's best to fix their games (like Dungeon Keeper 2). Steam doesn't. Fallout 1 and 2 from Steam are known to be terrible. It does not work on modern PCs out of the box like GOG's version. And they don't even bother fixing it.

And from my personal experience, GOG's support has proven to be better. Everytime i used Steam's support it always took days to get an answer. The only time that i used GOG's support i got my problem fixed within 1 hour.

I can't believe you are so naive. Do you really think publishers would accept whatever bullshit Steam tries to force down their throats? They wouldn't. If Steam starts restricting publishers, they will just sell their game on another digital distributor. There are millions of DD sites, and even publishers started making their own services so they don't have to share the profits with anyone else (Origin, uPLay, Squenix FFVII). This is exactly what EA did with Crysis 2. Valve and EA didn't come to an agreement about DLC policy and then Crysis 2 was removed from Steam.

Because you are the smartest person in the fucking world. So everyone who buys from a digital store that YOU don't like is a fool, right? Oh yeah, right.

Steam is ripping off who? They offer a digital store and sell games like anyone else in the fucking market. The difference is that they often have the best prices and the best features (auto-update, community features, easy-to-use, no need for installers). Steam is great as a service.

Oh boy, i'm sorry to bust your bubble, but the best interest GOG ever acts is it's own too. Just like every other company in the world. Companies are created to make profits.

Pretty much so, yeah. I think a lot of people tend to forget that the vast majority of Steam users are there for the games, not for Steam itself. If publishers decide to migrate to some other platform - which is inevitable eventually, whether this be a better or worse proposition for gamers - the gamers will go where the games are. Those with the "no Steam, no sale" attitude are a distinct minority.

After all, people started using and buying from Origin and this partly came about because of the EA/Valve dispute (partly too because no matter how big the share of the pie is, EA always wants more). If Valve starts rubbing other publishers up the wrong way, they too will eventually move to their own or other platforms, and the gamers will follow them.

And as much as I can't stand Steam, I'd find such heavy fragmentation of the market to be even worse.

EA did. They removed Crysis 2 and Dragon's Age 2 from Steam thanks to the lack of an agreement on DLC policies. Battlefield 3, ME3 and Syndicate are not on Steam (for another reasons, though). Maybe smaller publishers wouldn't, but the bigger ones might give up on it if it gets too restrictive. In the end, guess who loses? Steam does.
Stop bringing common sense into this discussion. Valve is evil, period.

That's actually not true. Here in eastern Europe, most games (both DD and retail) usually cost more than in - say - the US, which can be frustrating...

And here come the Steam Fanboys and the Lovers of the Mega Corporation :)

It never ends does it?

No matter what Steam does it does it because it "has to".

Really? You live your life believing this kind of crap? Hilarious.

But, hey, I'll be the first one laughing when you get shat on by Steam. And yes, you will.

Steam support really sucks. I had a problem with "Sleeping Dogs", so I've sent a ticket to support. It took them 6 days to answer and their answer couldn't be more generic:

"Please check to make sure your game files are installed correctly.

Right-click on the game in your Library list and go to Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Cache.

After Steam verifies the game cache, try running the game again."

They have probably the worst support that I ever seen.


I don't hate Steam that much as some of guys here, but it's bad that Steam have such a strong position.

LOL, i really have to stop taking your posts seriously.

Fanboy? LOL. Oh yes, definetely i'm a fanboy for stating the obvious. And yes please, start name calling, it's the best argument you can come up with. Now, call me a troll, please. Oh, and an asshole too. Thanks. Hope that makes you feel better.

Jesus, you need a psychologist FAST.

And in other words...

Thank you Steam for gifting me the singleplayer part of Dark Messiah few months ago, even though I only used a promo key for the multiplayer part a long time ago.

:p

Well for a start you have to think of how many support tickets they get in a day. Thats alot of people who could have potential problems with games or their account. Even then Sleeping dogs have barely been out a week, it's going to be buggy. What was the problem?

That non-defective (a.k.a. 'DRM-free') games are considered "a niche market" speaks volumes about the state of the industry and consumer protection laws.

I like this post. :)