What's the worst thing he's done?

artifact

>>386818893
>killed physical PC gaming
>TF2 hats
>paid mods
Take your pick

>>386818893

Steam Greenlight

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The biggest cancer to the gaming industry of course.

>>386818893
Left valve completely directionless and incapable of actually finishing any projects

>>386818893
banned james

>>386818893
Not make half-life 3

Popularize cosmetics & microtransactions

attempt paid mods

>>386818893
made "games as a service" an accepted practice.

>>386818893
Portal 2 microtransactions.
Not necessarily bad but just really fucking stupid.

>>386818893
Half life 2

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>>386818893
Steam. The worst form of DRM to ever grace gaming. Ruined the freedom of PC forever. We are slowly starting to return to glory with things like GOG and private launchers though. I hate monopolies. I want total divestment from that marketplace.

If it was just a retailer that would be one thing, but Gabe can literally steal your rightfully owned games anytime he wants. And based on his long history of theft to build his empire, it will happen one day. He's a hooknose by trade.

>Early Access
>Paid Mods
>Killed physical PC gaming
>Micro-transactions in every game
>In-game sprays are now something to be sold
>Loot crate gambling to get kids hooked
Pick one

>>386818893
That new shit card game

>>386818893
VAC

Good intentions, TERRIBLE execution.

>>386822181
Don't worry senpai, just set your profile private to hide your cheater faggot shame.

>>386819223

Fucking this. For every good early access game, there is thirty bad ones.

>>386820779
anon, before Steam GFWL was going to literally kill PC gaming.

Go to sleep, you have highschool tomorrow

>>386822535
>thirty
Make that 300

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>>386822630
>anon, before Steam GFWL was going to literally kill PC gaming.
My sweet summer child. Steam came out 14 years ago, I was PC gaming at the time. It was nightmarish that you had to install an always-online DRM just to play Half-Life, and it grew from there exponentially. This was like... 5 or 6 years before GFWL even existed.

It literally ruined PC gaming. Before you'd buy a game and activate it with a key to play it from the disc. The disc was the DRM, if you didn't have it inside you couldn't validate ownership (that or you validated with just a key). It was glorious. You could resell your PC game to anyone or share it with your friend nextdoor.

Go to bed.

Create Steam.

>>386822181
that is part of what's killing tf2

>>386823112
When Steam started it was a mess, but PC gaming was slouching hard. Low amounts of release, lots of doom and gloom news, and Microsoft was aiming to pretty much corner the market and make it an extension of their OS as part of a walled garden.

Steam's resurgence ~2007-2008 is what ushered in a revival of interest into the market, supported the indie market which would continue to dominate onto other consoles later, and got rid of a lot of the shitty prices and inconveniences that were synonymous with PC Gaming.

>>386818893
Removed the barbecue pit from Valve HQ

>>386822718
Does it even change anything? For any good game there's 300 bad ones.

>>386823770
>thee hundred
Make that 3000

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>made TF2 go free to play
>removed any sort of curation from the store
>introduced masses of paid cosmetic microtransactions
>tried to force through paid mods
>made early access a thing

>>386823608
Nice try, gabe. Fuck off

>>386818893
everything

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>>386823608
Nigger I don't need a history lesson. I've been gaming since before you were born, primarily on PC. Steam is the reason PC gaming was driven into a slump. Once they started the always-online check the rest of the market followed suit, and that lasted until around 2012 when FINALLY Valve allowed you to play your games "offline" but you had to be online for 7 days minimum before you could enter 'offline mode' to play your game offline. If the internet went out and you didn't already engage "offline mode" you were FUCKED.

The 90s for PC gaming were filled with timeless classic after timeless classic that set standards for all genres of games to come forever. Gabe Newall brought about the dark ages of gaming when he left Microsoft to start his own company.

He started it with the millions he made working at Microsoft, profiting off of John Carmack's rendering techniques, which he stole from Doom to improve the UI for Windows 3.5 and later 95. He even stole Carmack's engine (before it was open sourced) to create Gold.

He's the biggest hooknose in the PC world, and he's ruining gaming. I only wish gamers weren't blind fanboys. Steam is a neccessary evil today, but they take such massive profits from studios these days you either have to sell your soul to a big publisher or die after a few small releases where Gabe takes 39% of your pie.

No wonder that bergstein is so fucking fat.

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>add cosmetics to tf2
>add crates to tf2
>do the same shit with csgo
>also make the menu of csgo a clusterfuck
>"the old and simple menu of cs source was just so BORING"
>every new mp game tries to copy them and throws confetti in your face

I miss the simpler time.

>>386823984
Early-mid 2000's PC gaming was nothing like mid-late 90's gaming anon.

And Steam sure as hell didn't gain popularity in 2012, especially for something as niche and retarded as offline play.

For fucks sake, around 2012 was when Steam Sales started turning to shit and other competitors were already releasing competition.

Slightly before the Orange Box was when it was becoming what it was today.

Also lol @ profit share complaints and especially with the nu-/v/ jew insults. Devs earn lots of share on Steam and you can find plenty of articles of indies literally praising their revenue share and saying it prevented them from being homeless.

Additionally devs can make their own legit Steam keys for games on their store for absolutely free and no restrictions.

I can submit a game for $60 on Steam and sell it on my website via paypal, gaining near 100% revenue back if I wanted. Even then, Steam doesn't take much at all.

The way nu-Steam makes money is market place nerds and micro transactions. Their storefront is totally fair game.

>>386818893
Not releasing halflife3 while there's been a clear and massive demand for a decade

>>386824346
I never said 2012 is when steam got popular. I said that is when it became tolerable, when they introduced "offline mode" you hyper nigger.

>>386824532
If offline mode is what made it tolerable then you're fucking retarded.

Most games back then you could run without even using the Steam client because the exes weren't tied to the api.

Most newer games are tied heavily to the api now, but you can still find workarounds if you look around the web.

He didn't release HL3, the best game of all time

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>>386818893
Being a shrewd and effective businessman. Hard to fault him for it. He's good. But crushing the hopes and dreams of so many people waiting for Half-Life to finally end is pretty cruel. Wish he would just come out already and announce that HL3 is cancelled instead of keeping me lit with even the faintest glimmer of hope.

>>386818914

fpbp

>>386818893
break my heart

Lie to everyone for over a decade.

>>386823112
I bought my last PC game in 2012.
I had been travelling, so not been gaming for 8years, bought shogun 2 TW, took it home to play, didn't even realize it was online DRM.
steam wtf is that.
Installed it because i'm a cuck.
Don't even need the disc anymore.

So if I didn't need the disc and I don't need a crack wtf is this shit.
So I stopped buying PC games.

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Itt: fucking idiots.

Buy a console plebs. Stop being dorky permavirgins. Pic related, PC gamers.

>>386818893
Anything he's done in the past 10-5 years

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The more I watch this video the more I realize that Gabe just abandoned all interest in any famous IPs him and Valve own. This hurts me. I played the shit out of L4D2 and loved Portal 2. I just want another amazing first person POV game with memorable characters. I hate this fat fuck so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0w9YP_wZ0

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>>386825591
>grow up and buy a toy
>stop using a sophistocated tool that can be used to learn, produce, work and play
No thanks, I'm done hearing children scream over VOIP. PC is where adults are.

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>>386818893
let this shit on steam

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>>386826036
Valve is a 100% privately owned company. They don't answer to shareholders. Gabe Newall owns the entire thing.

So I don't understand why he doesn't allow porn games. It is a massive market just waiting to be capitalized on. A simple age check is all that they need. If you don't have an "Adult" account you can't see the adult section, and just make it so you have to make a conscious decision to even view that part.

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>>386825591
I could sell my PC and buy 10 of those shitty excuses for a gaming platform. It's not my fault that none of your mom's 3 jobs pay her enough to afford a high-end PC, or for the very least a laptop. Until your mom applies for job #4 have fun playing on your repurposed NES. It even has the same graphics, too!

>>386825848
maybe he thinks he's just peaked and is has so much positive reinforcement that he's lost sight in what makes his games good and started to question his own merit based on said praise.

maybe playing it safe and working on the games that are already out is his method of coping with the loss of his own artistic license.

>>386818893
Aside from the Steam related stuff (and there's a LOT of horrible things he's done there)...

I'd say faking the Half-Life 2 E3 demos in 2003. Game journalists just swallowed that obviously fake and scripted shit.

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>>386826270
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow


Not him but I agree. I love PC gaming, pic related. Muh PC

>>386818893
made a well received video game

>>386826305
>/threading yourself
>console fag
>pretentious bullshit
Faggots like you are why I don't do console gaymen

>>386820779

>gog
>buying torrents

lmao

CS gambling

>>386826305
This.

>>386826393
Why not both?

>>386826618
Only console I'll play are Nintendo handhelds. 3DS and Switch.

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>it's a "anti-steam cuck" whines endlessly while no one pays attention to his shenanigans episode
get a job nigger

>>386826665
Good choices, though I'm waiting for Nintendo to do a re-release of the switch like they did with n3ds because I don't want to get fucked in the ass.

I mostly bought console games these past few years because I enjoy having physical copies and my PC is aging.

Only game I remember buying for PC this year is Overwatch. And barely used it to play games in 2016.

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>>386819223
Agreed. Early access is the absolute worse!

>>386818893
he fucking monopolized the pc gaming industry

>>386827939
still better than that disaster ea calls origin

>>386828912
Well, you can only go downhill from there.

>>386825171
pretty much

I just don't understand how fucking hard it is to say, "HL3 is not in development at this time." Instead of leaving everyone in the dark for literally a decade. What's the reasoning behind this? It makes no sense. Just makes him a douche

>>386830345

He has said HL3 is not in development. Not only that, he said he has no intention of ever making a HL3. And the reason why is because they have no idea how to monetize it in the same way they monetize all their other games these days. Of course he didn't use those words, he said something like "We couldn't make a game like Half-Life today after learning what we have from TF2 and DOTA." The best hope we have is he said if a bunch of people at Valve decided they REALLY wanted to make HL3 and they managed to convince him they had a good idea for an ongoing revenue stream from it then he will okay it.

overeat

>>386818893
Raped and killed a kid in 1990

>>386818893
SteamOS

>>386831034
I forgot that was even a thing.

>>386818893
Steam

>>386831069
it never was

>>386831909
HAHAHAHAHA

>>386818893
Getting born

Firing 2gd

>>386824007
Crates and cosmetics aren't always a bad thing. When they are added into a game you have already paid for it's pretty shitty. It's okay in f2p provided they don't go over the top with them, I know that was the case in tf2 and I think it is starting to happen in dota.

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>>386818893
he did more damage by not doing things

>>386827939
no he didn't you retarded yuropoor. the only thing he did was become a major distributor. there wasn't ever a monopoly since places like diret2drive had better selection than steam did in the early days

>>386833220
Oh no did pwoor wittle bwabwy not get his wittle chwistmas pwesant oh no how will Gabe Newell ever recover.

>>386818893
Came up with the idea of loot crates

>>386818893
Besides turning Steam into Virtual Ancapistan?

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>>386833296
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BGXLf_y9Sw

>>386826336
>that transistor poster
whose art?

>>386822630
you are a fuckin retard dude.

>>386823608
fuck off jew.

Let slacks come near a microphone

>>386833538
Faggot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izXnCkrfjO0

>>386831025
please someone tell me this is true

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>>386833951
That isn't a poster. That is the original piece by Jen Zee from the "Into the Pixel" art gallery tour in like... 2013 I think. Paid about 1300US for it. The Space Ghost on the right is "Are you getting enough Oxygen" and it is an original one of a kind too from the 1988 Gallery tour. I don't remember how much.

Both are one of one and autographed by the artist.

I think you can maybe get a print of my original somewhere online, maybe. Not sure tho.

>>386818893
Hating the number 3.

>>386818893
everything

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>>386834565

it is

>>386836541
>"before making little Charley take it from behind"

>>386836787
>viewing his image after death is against my beliefs

>>386818984
>killed physical PC gaming
and thats bad because ?

>>386823112
>b-but lending muh copy to other people
family share
>Before you'd buy a game and activate it with a key to play it from the disc.
games nowadays have limited amount of activations, so even if you had the dsic you acn activate it only one or two systems, ten you'll have to re-buy the game for more keys.

>>386837224
Steam wont exist forever.

>>386836541
You wrote an article over 100 words long because some random person on 4chan made a joke about it.

>>386837723
>games nowadays have limited amount of activations, so even if you had the dsic you acn activate it only one or two systems
Yes, things are so much better with Steam. Now if you use Steam from too many different systems Valve decides you must have shared your account and so locks it. You don't just lose one game now, you lose all of them all at once.

>ten you'll have to re-buy the game for more keys
You want to know how it actually works in reality? You contact support, unlike with Valve someone will actually answer, and then say "Hey, I'm trying to install this game but it's telling me the key is no longer valid." and they will say "Okay, here's a new key to use then."

>steam Greenlight
>Early Access
>Killing TF2, HL, Portal, L4D, and DoD as well as putting CSGO on the chopping block
>Announcing a new card game based on DOTA at a turbulent time for Valve fans

>>386836541
>>386831025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83OILqFV1gw

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>>386837224
I know shit like CD rot exist but physical games have a bigger chance in surviving shit for years to come.

Besides, it feels a lot more satisfying to see a copy of a game right in your hands.

>>386819403
The question was "what's the worst thing he HAS DONE?" and you picked something he HAS NOT DONE, which is an invalid answer. By your logic the worst thing all of us HAVE DONE is not cure cancer.

Paid mods and artifact

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>15 day waits for non-phone users
>released CSGO
>killed mods

>>386838124
Fair enough I guess. But
>You contact support, unlike with Valve someone will actually answer, and then say "Hey, I'm trying to install this game but it's telling me the key is no longer valid." and they will say "Okay, here's a new key to use then."
I really don't have an opinion on this kind of stuff, but since so many insist pirating is the worst, that kinda is like stealing the game. Not that I'm against it since you already bought the game once

Honestly?

Using all your money and power to simply copy trends instead of responsibility taking risk trying to change the industry for the better.

It's why it's so easy to respect Nintendo or even blizzard but valve is such lazy shots they can't even make good DRM.

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>>386837956
steam will exist more than a physical CD will ...
steam isnt the reason optical drives arent the mainstream way of data transfer, it would happen sooner or later

>>386818984
>killed physical PC gaming
I know that you might enjoy holding a dick in your hands, but I don't see how there is anything work with it. If you want to OWN a product, just pirate is and drop it on your external harddrive or flash drive. Also, if you don't wanna have gaben steal all your games later, don't have one.
>TF2 hats
They weren't bad at the beginning.
>paid mods
This one's legit.

>>386838835
unironically this, also
>bought rights to DotA and turned a great mod into a shit standalone

>>386839114
It might seem autistic but I like physical games for any platform because I can always read the manuals for them to entertain myself when taking a shit

>>386823112
>It was nightmarish that you had to install an always-online DRM just to play Half-Life, and it grew from there exponentially.
Nigga, you can play steam games offliine.
>It literally ruined PC gaming
It did not figuratively ruined PC gaming, anon.
> You could resell your PC game to anyone or share it with your friend nextdoor.
You can sell your account or share it.
Go to bed, gramps.

>>386839252
>sell your account
yes and sell it and get your account terminated

>>386839114
>paid mods
you know bethesda has a major role in this shitstorm ,right ?
they will try to bring paid mods back with fallout 4 vr thing

>>386839226
>I can always read the manuals for them to entertain myself when taking a shit
Even though I sometimes do that, It's near impossible to find recent games with decent manuals. Based on my PS4 library, the only game that does this properly is Shantae. The rest are just 1 page paper or none at all.

>>386839252
>Nigga, you can play steam games offliine.
You can now, and only fairly recently relative to the age of steam.

>>386837956
Steam will exist 100 years from now

>>386839114
>dick
disk
>work
wrong
jeez, what is with me

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>>386839465
>Steam will exist 100 years from now
Naw. Major western civilization won't be around in 100 years. We're due for a major collapse in the next 25-50 years. Enjoy it while you can.

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>>386839252
>offline mode
>working

Consider yourself lucky, the chronic shittiness of Steam when in the first years was legendary

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>>386839703
wrong gif

>>386839314
Yeah, but valve are equally guilty of this.
>yes and sell it and get your account terminated
In one of 10000 cases? Then you just write support that "guys, my account was stolen, here's my info restore it" and that's it.
>>386839439
Dunno, I remember doing so in 2010 which is like half of how long steam exists.

>>386839783
this takes me back

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>>386839703
>Consider yourself lucky, the chronic shittiness of Steam when in the first years was legendary
It was super shitty until about 2012-ish, when they finally loosened some of the restrictions (you could be offline for 7 days without connecting and retain access to "your games")
Then in 2014 they completely opened up offline mode with a secure Windows session token, which allows you to be offline for months and retain access.

Remember when there was no offline mode? And even worse when offline mode was introduced but you had to connect to the internet/steam servers to enable offline mode? So if the internet went out before you could enable offline mode you just couldn't play your game.

God I wish I was young and oblivious like these faggots in this thread. Then maybe I could be a mindless Gabe chode sucker like the rest of /v/

>>386839912
>And even worse when offline mode was introduced but you had to connect to the internet/steam servers to enable offline mode?

That was actually a bug that Valve had no interest in fixing. The offline data that was saved every time you closed Steam while online was always corrupt, when you transferred to offline mode from online mode it wouldn't be corrupt. Some random user finally figured this out and told everyone an offline data backup work around to get offline mode working "properly". In the next Steam patch the bug was fixed.

>>386839312
If you sell your account to someone and won't use it yourself anymore then it will not get terminated. If the IP address suddenly changes then so waht? You just moved to a new place that's it. I have steam on my laptop too which I use if I'm traveling somwhere, no problem with that

>>386840237
Somehow that makes it better? If anything that highlights the terribleness of Steam further

>>386840727

Actually, I was implying it's worse.

They claimed to offer a feature that they knew didn't work and it's only when someone actually figured out how to work around them that they bothered to fix the problem and it was done almost immediately. Basically, they wanted to claim offline support while still forcing people online but the second their strategy was bypassed and the "bug" become redundant it was fixed and we all thanked Valve for generously giving us offline mode.

That kind of sums up Valve's customer service philosophy in a nutshell, fuck them and then pretend you are doing them a favor when your hand is forced.

>>386839912
but this is completely wrong? You're talking out of your ass, I'm not defending steam but straight up lying to prove your point? lol

>>386841283
>but this is completely wrong? You're talking out of your ass, I'm not defending steam but straight up lying to prove your point? lol
I'm not lying. Just because you're 12 doesn't mean that history didn't happen.

>>386838647
>Besides, it feels a lot more satisfying to see a copy of a game right in your hands.

Yea, until your CD drive made in a Taiwanese sweatshop starts to turn into a wood chipper. Lost ground control and Diablo like that. Digital is better.

>>386834598
Good for you.

>>386818893
He told me my waifu wasn't real.

>>386841667
>starts to turn into a wood chipper
literally when has this ever happened
we aren't talking about xbox 360s here

Crates

>>386841780
Old poorly made cd drives from 1997 that's when. Which literally doesn't matter now because only spergs bother getting them. Alot of cases don't even have ports for them now.

>>386842040
also, literally who uses separate cd drives anymore, apart from retro fags? most dvd drives can also read/write cds too.

>>386822535
> thirty thousand
ftfy

>>386842261
>thirty million
even more accurate

Popularizing loot boxes. That shit's everywhere nowadays.

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>>386818893

mfw volvo releases dota 2 episode 1

>>386843363
/thread

>>386818893
he ate my toenails

>>386818893
he raped my wallet

>>386839647
>so most likely i will die before steam
seems like steam is pretty secure then

>>386818893

Steam

>>386839647
Source

>>386847086
>Source
Google

>>386847630
Epic. I wouldn't have asked if no sources came up on me using saucenao and google you fucking retard.

>>386825848
Man, even his hair got greasier

enabling his company to be lazy cunts and prioritizing profiting off of retards instead of making games

>>386823878
>removed any sort of curation from the store
People might not realize it but this is the worst of his crimes. Most problems stem from this one action.

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You know how in movies the villain is usually extremely obvious to the audience but the characters never pick up on it until it's too late and you wonder how they were such dumbshits?
I feel like I'm one of those dumbshit characters

hats

>>386823859
Does it even change anything? For any good game there's 3000 bad ones.

>>386818893
Blame him all you want, but people bought into it

Nerds out there spending $1000 on DOTA 2, will spend another $1000 on Artifact

I say blame the consumer, they're buying into it

>>386818893
Literally made PC gaming a meme, and a laughing stock even though it has the horsepower to provide photo realistic games with real world like simulation.

>Made early acces a thing
>Made indie showelware a thing
>Made $100 000 virtual items a thing

Not to mention what he did to valve games.
The saddest part is that there are still fuckers out there who think that companies like EA, Blizzard Ubisoft are worse, when in fact they are not, at least they still make games, finished games.

>>386823878
I never understood the idea that L4D2 should have been (free) DLC for the first game. It had a similar amount of content to L4D1 plus minor improvements in graphics, melee weapons etc.

Sure it was basically more of the same apartment from the aforementioned, but I don't see how it was more egregious than, say, the yearly CoD or Battlefield sequels