Is Gabe Newell the savior of Vidya ?

Is Gabe Newell the savior of Vidya ?

too bad he doesn't make games anymore

>savior of vidya
He doesn't make games, and he doesn't believe in consumer rights.
He's a piece of shit but I guess he's nice to his employees.

gaben doesn't make games, his employees do

Gabe's got a good company environment. He endured years of microsoft bullshit for most of his adult life. Then went on to create a company he would enjoy working in. He takes care of his employees if they have real talent and continue to work hard for the company's future.

>create the de facto standard for online videogame distribution
>customer support is still 'post in the forums' or 'receive a form letter by email three weeks later, if at all'
unacceptable imo, you don't get to wash your hands of post-sale support just because it's, like, haaaaard

>He endured years of microsoft bullshit for most of his adult life.

What? Gabe said he loved his job at Microsoft and made a shitload of money out of it, but when he saw the work being done on Doom for W95 (Microsoft ported it themselves) and Quake he decided to found Valve after cashing out his Microsoft shares because he wanted a new challenge and thought games would be that.

Why do you feel you need to lie?

Because the narrative is that Microsoft is a shit company and Sup Forums needs to maintain that

what is this, a 2009 thread?

PC master race bros WHERE YOU AT? Post your Dota time played, if under 1000 hours you deserve to be banned from Sup Forums.

Gaben amen.

ever noticed how complex steam is?

compared to the barebones download-play model it used to be, i mean. like there isn't even a 'new user's guide', i wouldn't even want to have to explain to someone what the fuck their 'inventory' is for

Too bad this is the Gaben of the past and he has become as greedy and cold as every other CEO of a big company.

>he doesn't believe in consumer rights.
I haven't looked into it, but it seems like steam's been getting more customer focused, what with allowing refunds on no mans sky and killing floor 2.

what a guy. complying with basic consumer rights and stuff. the man, the legend, the knife collection

That's because they are required to do that by law to keep the EU market. It has nothing to do with what he/Valve wants.

Fuck no look at steam now

>can't customize what shit shows up on the store page despite them building the storepage to work like that, so all you see are fucking trash games
>have to navigate through three pages to get to just new major releases
>telling it to filter out certain tags doesn't filter out all games with those tags, this should have been how it works since tags were ever added
>limit to how many tags you can "filter" at all
>you once played a game with the tag "action" so here's 4,000,000 very old and cheap experimental games that aren't remotely good that all with "action" in their tags
>automatically and arbitrarily filters links out of chat because moron fuck ten year old retards can't figure out not to click on links sent to them from random nobodies
>on top of that steam will tell you that you're clicking a link and you have to confirm you're clicking a link before it will send you to the site the link is connected to
>some links it'll deem unallowable despite not filtering them, meaning you need to copy and paste the link into your browser
>cockgobbling shitsmear faggots defend this claiming it has somehow helped against scams despite having 0 proof or evidence of that being true
>steam guard in general
>made the market worthless to operate on, even if you have a cellphone to authorize shit through not everyone does meaning sales have slowed the absolute fuck down to a halt and market predictability is zilch
>every year sales get worse and worse, it's not that all the games everyone has keep going on sale but the sale discounts have degraded so much, less games go on sale, and the fun games have been replaced with garbage thanks to Russians

If you design your product to appeal to the lowest common denominator then you will get a product that reflects the lowest common denominator.

no him and his company are ruining PC gaming with forced DRM

>steam guard in general
in a world where your steam account may have had hundreds spent on it, not to mention third-party redemptions, keeping it safe and protected using proven modern 2fa methods (something you know, something you have) is a good idea

Video games are a lowest common denominator product now, why would they actually put effort into things when every sale is better than the last for them?
This is reality now.

Yeah it's called don't have a password that consists of a pokemon name and three letters.

To get your steam account before steamguard they would have had to have your email, your email's password, your password, and your account name.

To get your steam account after steamguard they have to have your email, your email's password, your password, and your account name.
Fucking dipshit.

So steam caused the problem while suddenly realizing they should have some protection?

I dont have a phone.
Steam guard helps me in no way, can't even use the market now.

When they started pushing that thing steam went from bad to being the worst thing out there.
Forcing it on people is bad, it should be optional.

No they make loot crates

Valve used to be really cool but they lost their way a couple years after TF2 came out
Steam is still an okay medium but their game development has all been a pretty bad joke

no, maybe someone at valve thought 'we should have a more secure method of authenticating users than username/password'

given how every password breach & dump inevitably proves people are still using password1, it's a good idea to lower the chances of people losing all the money they spent on their steam account.

i mean yeah you can get all spiteful and WELL MAYBE THOSE PEOPLE DESERVE TO LOSE ALL THEIR VIDEOGAMES BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID NORMIES REEE but come on

>spending money on your steam account
There's your problem.

>So go home to your wife and her son and come back when you are better.

Gaben is so sweet. Why do we hate him again?

You have to be 18 or older to post here, net-nigger. See
It lowers no chances, you're a retard and should kill yourself.

Because we're not his employees or friends. We're worms he sells dirt to, and he believes he should be able to step on us, tear us in half, and generally do whatever the fuck he wants unless the gubmint says "do this or you can't make any more money."

He's a fucking awful person.

when someone at work tries to purchase one of my products, i punch them in the face because I'm The Boss ha ha stupid plebbe-
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bitch