As someone who was using Steam 15 years ago, reading comments like this feels like entering the twilight zone.
Does no one remember Steam selling broken games you couldn’t return? Removing games from your library arbitrarily or any of the other shady shit they pulled before the EU and Australia rolled out regulations to stop them? The only reason Steam treats customers with a modicum of respect is that it is legally required to do so.
I don’t remember. I have been using Steam for more than 10 years and I have 90 games in my library. I honestly don’t remember any bad experiences. I buy games, I play them, when I don’t like one I request a refund. I always got my money back.
For a multi-billion dollar company with a somewhat-dominant market position, I’d say they’re pretty fucking good. They’re to PC gaming what Netflix did to broadcast TV, without the enshitification. Steam made games available globally, when it was a hard and expensive task to get the bloody originals on CD/DVD in many countries, which forced most people into piracy because it was the only way. Because of Steam I stopped pirating games, too. I say it’s fine.
My Steam profile is 22 years old and I’ve been gaming on PC since the early 80s.
The first couple of years were dogshit but then again so was a lot of things back then. It was the infancy of contents distribution networks, bandwidth was insanely expensive.
They learned it was shitty and got better. Improving is a thing that can happen to people and organizations if they are wise enough to understand. It’s refreshing to see wisdom in tech.
As someone who was using Steam 15 years ago, reading comments like this feels like entering the twilight zone.
Does no one remember Steam selling broken games you couldn’t return? Removing games from your library arbitrarily or any of the other shady shit they pulled before the EU and Australia rolled out regulations to stop them? The only reason Steam treats customers with a modicum of respect is that it is legally required to do so.
I don’t remember. I have been using Steam for more than 10 years and I have 90 games in my library. I honestly don’t remember any bad experiences. I buy games, I play them, when I don’t like one I request a refund. I always got my money back.
10 years is riiiiight around when the regulations came out and you could return games.
I’ve been using Steam since before Half Life 2 and have 2000 games, I don’t recall having any of those issues. ¯\(ツ)/¯
For a multi-billion dollar company with a somewhat-dominant market position, I’d say they’re pretty fucking good. They’re to PC gaming what Netflix did to broadcast TV, without the enshitification. Steam made games available globally, when it was a hard and expensive task to get the bloody originals on CD/DVD in many countries, which forced most people into piracy because it was the only way. Because of Steam I stopped pirating games, too. I say it’s fine.
My Steam profile is 22 years old and I’ve been gaming on PC since the early 80s.
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The first couple of years were dogshit but then again so was a lot of things back then. It was the infancy of contents distribution networks, bandwidth was insanely expensive.
They learned it was shitty and got better. Improving is a thing that can happen to people and organizations if they are wise enough to understand. It’s refreshing to see wisdom in tech.