Is this about DS directors cut? lol

This sounds like fun.
What insight does your training reveal about our current exchange?

That you're not a fan of classic comedy films.

Perhaps. Depends on the definition of both "comedy" and "classic".

Also, well done deflection of the meaning of "free".


ps. Whatever the outcome, I do appreciate participating in a contest where the digital duelists have ventured upon insult without descending into vicious stupidity.

Stuff like Lootboxes, NFTs and Gacha is better to never ever exist here. On DLCs, the store has none in the thousand range, in hundreds it does (if my memory is not wrong). There are some games with many dozens of DLCs, it doesn't come too cheap. These games come with the DLCs right out of the box, specifically cut to sell itself pricier than it could be in the classic "everything at once in one product, no strings attached" model.

reminder that steam themselves have never given out any free games.

Portal?

Not anymore.

And?
That doesn't change the fact that Portal is a game made by Valve (aka: Steam), and that it was given away for free in the past.
And I know that for a fact, because I got it for free - as a matter of fact, Portal was the first game I ever "owned" on Steam.

you are talking about a giveaway from Valve from 2011 or earlier.

And that makes it less of a giveaway, how exactly?

As long as the Fortnite money keeps flowing I guess. Doesn't seem like slowing down much either, so give it another 5-10 years? =P I tried Fortnite for a while. It's alright (especially once the non-build mode was released) but I really don't get the point of all the billions of dollars they're raking in... for skins, emotes, and other silly things that at the same time require the ever-tiring FOMO season pass malarkey.

the fact that it's been almost 12 years since then?

I think the point here is that 12 Years =/= Never (or !Never, depending on how you want to express not equal)

what are we comparing? When Valve or CDP gave a away the game they made for free, or free games on gOg vs free games on Steam?