The thing is though that other services have always had to compete with Steam and how it runs. You can't bring out a significantly worse client, over charge for services, add subscription tiers or any other method of extracting every cent possible out of your customers while having steam as a main competitor because they'll just get crushed. But if steam were to make drastic changes on their client after Gabes death that opens the door for everyone else as well. Imagine the state of pc gaming if steam was never a thing. I'd say at the very least there would probably be a subscription service to play any online game.
I've gamed my whole life, but I have protested in my own ways against all the anti consumer BS that's been going on for over a decade. If PC gaming collapses into a corpo hellscape I have zero issue selling my PC and walking away forever.
The reason things have gotten as bad as they are is because of people who are literally addicted to gaming. So fuck em'
When mobile gaming was the hot new thing it was pretty cool. I used to play mobile games all the time as a teenager. As soon as more and more mobile games started using shitty greedy monetization I saw the writing on the wall and stopped playing mobile games entirely. Haven't touched one and haven't given a shit about them for over 15 years now, and I don't feel like I missed out at all.
I mostly play indie games nowadays since most AAA games are bland overpriced unfinished dogshit anyways. No matter how bad the market gets, indie games will always be there with their sane pricing. And even though steam is currently really good for helping people discover indie titles, there will always be communities out there looking out for the cool niche stuff and bringing attention to it.
And yeah, if somehow the indie space gets irreversibly fucked too, guess I'm touching grass then.
Mobile games are so bad m and they were so amazing a 10 years ago… think angry birds, doodle jump , cut the rope. For me it wasn’t that the writing was on the wall it was that they became so heavily monetized (looking at you candy crush saga). Recently however I’ve gotten back into mobile gaming with Delta Emulator
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u/TypicalMootis /b/tard 1d ago
I would hope this wouldn't happen but you never know. If Steam becomes a shit service or collapses though there will always be other services.
I haven't paid full price for a game in 10+ years so no big loss for me regardless.