How ever bad you think they’re going to get, you’re wrong. It’s going to be worse.

I hope you’re ready.

Woke means aware of social injustice. Which interestingly, is being aware of how hate speech laws can be unjust.

Nah, it’s worse. At least those comments criticized the game before the ad hominem.

My friend, every online platform is censored. Yes, it’s censorship, no I’m not saying it’s good, but that’s the world we find ourselves in.

At the end of the day, the question is “would you recommend this game” and it’s your prerogative to answer as you wish, as long as you don’t break Steam’s rules. And if you do, your review is removed.

Sir, it’s 2026. We haven’t done free speech for a while.

I believe you should be allowed to stand in front of your local game store and say dumb things. Vandalism is something else.

Of course, neither is currently allowed, so your opinion and my opinion are irrelevant.

end goal is everybody just has phones with locked bootloaders

Right?! Steam is great if you’re willing to wait. I basically don’t buy games anymore unless they’re 80% off or really cheap anyways.

I’d love to see that 30% go to 15 or 10, but this lawsuit is a stretch

steambox is rumored to be $650 us but that could be bullshit. we’ll see.

it probably wont pop in the way a lot of online commenters are predicting. big companies like google, microsoft, apple, amazon, etc will be fine. a bunch of startups and small-mid sized companies will go under. a few big ones will get bought by bigger ones.

even without ai they’re going to need more datacenters. there’s a lot you can do with a shitton of compute beyond generating questionable ai-slop.

NFTs didn’t directly need GPUs really. eth did, but that’s not really the same thing. NFTs didn’t increase demand, the price of eth did. Same in how the price of bitcoin increased demand.

Either way, prices never came down from that, and I suspect they’ll never come down from this.

plummeting

I just checked and at least the ones I have are all doing fine, mostly only a bit down from their aths

You’re absolutely right, but you also need to accept that most people think ai means transformers (as in, LLMs and generative/image synthesis)

It sucks, but that’s how language works unfortunately. How most people use a word ends up defining it.

Recommendation systems, search and ranking algorithms, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, audio noise reduction, predictive analytics, forecasting models, fraud detection, anomaly detection, robotics control systems, self-driving path planning, robot navigation and mapping (SLAM), reinforcement-learning agents, game-playing AI, warehouse optimization, dynamic pricing models, object detection, face recognition, license-plate recognition, medical image analysis, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, spam detection, classic machine-translation models, personalization engines, matching algorithms, logistics route optimization, scheduling algorithms, resource allocation models, algorithmic trading bots, risk scoring, market-making AI, healthcare diagnostics, disease-risk prediction, protein-folding models, music analysis, beat detection, autonomous drone navigation, industrial monitoring, and smart-traffic systems.

Valve understands that sometimes less is more

Lots of indie games yes, but not so many of the AAAs

Money, I guess. GabeN needed a new yatch

Like the previous poster, I’m not defending steam. No good billionaires, fight for the proletariat, down with the elite, etc

Not all steam games use steam DRM. It’s opt in by the developer. Lots of steam games you can literally just copy out of steam onto a USB key and run it. No DRM at all.

Don’t get me wrong they are skeezy in other ways (charging I indie deva 30% and big publishers less) but if you’re going to criticize them, then at least criticize them for something real.