So what platform or service will you end up migrating to once gaben makes steam a paid service?

so what platform or service will you end up migrating to once gaben makes steam a paid service?

>buyfags literally shaking

Oh I'm laughing for real right now.

who's the cute loli

>Steam is all of PC gaming

She's from Gabriel Dropout, the AOTS

I have rejected Steam since it was introduced because you couldn't back up the games you've paid money for.
So my DRM free vidya collection and pirated stuff will be allright.
I'm free from the jewish devil and his online only service.

Physical copies

Steam will collapse.

what if they only activate on steam?

Why are the angels all such bad characters?

>you couldn't back up the games you've paid money for
???

i havent used steam since like 2012
i'll be fine

youtube cause I don't play games anymore

You still need to have the steam client installed, updated and running with online connection.
That's not a backup.

>offline mode

>still need to go online before you can use offline mode

Steam is already a paid service. If you have a "free" account on Steam, you basically can't use it.

>what is f2p

Unless you have paid games on your account, you still can't use most steam features - even if you can play F2P games.

A scam.

No one gives a shit about making anime steam profiles or hooking up with TF2 furries.

one will emerge if that happens. Probably GOG.
regardless, they're never going paid because that's SUICIDAL.

Nowhere. We will leave gaming forever because it fucking sucks. Buy all the good old games we used to play on disk and buy an old PC to play them on.

Valve makes a ton of money from 3rd worlders playing DOTA 2 and CS:GO, paid online would be suicide.

>microsoft would never turn their operating system into spyware, that's suicidal
News flash: you can do whatever you want if you're the monopoly.

Steam is not as much of a monopoly as you make it out to be.
Regardless, what you described isn't even close to the same. People don't care as much about spyware. Not only does it not directly effect them (well, not in a direct way), it requires effort and thought to actually learn that it exists at all.
Having to pay money every month just to use something suddenly would start hurting peoples budgets, something that effects them here and now.

>misusing effects
I almost took you seriously but then I realized you were retarded.

I've already slowly been converting to GOG just because the games are DRM free and I can store them elsewhere.

Interesting, so your saying I'm retarded?

>No source
What a great thread you got there, OP.
It's not happening, ever.

I can't remember the last time I actually used Steam for something. I think it was many years ago to try out a demo for a game.

All the games that I play play straight from .exe with no Steam needed. Emulators, MMOs like FFXIV, Overwatch, etc.

No shit retard, it's a download client, you need to go online once in order to download the actual game.

Nice backup which you can't use unless an online service (which reserves the right to alter the game's content at any time like they did multiple times now) allows you to then, huh?
I'll stick to my OFFLINE only solution, thank you very much.

>Have not gone into Online Mode on my Steam on Laptop in over a year now
>No problems at all
Hmm.

>Itchio has awful marketing but good enough in everything else
Now is the time for them to market themselves to be great for indie devs. It is also easy to falseflag/negative marketing campaign steam with these recent news. One that runs that should work his ass off.

I just buy games from DLsite and DMM these days

You know DRM is optional on Steam right? You can literally copy the folder of a DRM-free game over to some other computer and it will work just fine as long as you take care to also install the prerequisites, which Steam installs for you automatically.

But senpai. you still have to pay for storage devices.

not him but
>of a DRM-free game

It's a bit disingenuous to call it DRM-free if you still need Steam to install it for you. You still need to have Steam installed and be online.

That's just an awkward download procedure, not copy-protection. Once you've got a DRM-free game downloaded you don't need Steam anymore for it.

That said, Steam sucks as a store for DRM-free games because there's no way to search for them. You have to rely on lists on external websites.

its a digital game. How else are you going to get it without going online?

I'm not saying you can't buy it online. My issue is you can't download it then transfer it to a computer. For example, let's say you download a janky Slavshit game that only runs well on XP. You can transfer it to your XP computer or dual boot, but it won't just out of the box, you have to connect to the internet, download Firefox (IE and Chrome don't support XP) then download Steam, THEN install the game. It's not DRM freeing you have to be online just to install it. That's the difference between Steam and GOG, with a GOG game, once you buy and download, you NEVER have to go online again.

>download file
>install file
>No steam in-between
Literal kids in here.

Like this.
Buy it, save it, install it on any PC.
No internet, no client, no problems.

Uh no. You can copy most folders of games to machines without steam and they will launch just fine.

>That's just an awkward download procedure, not copy-protection.
If it doesn't include an offline installer it's useless as a DRM-free game. Sure you can play it offline without launching Steam, but you still need access to online functionality to install the game. Steam doesn't let you burn a client-free backup to disc. I don't hate Valve for killing physical media, however I DO hate Valve for killing installers.

You don't need an installer; just copy the files where you want them. Burn them to disc or store them on onedrive or wherever.
You can rar or zip them or whatever if you want to compress them. Make your own shortcuts to the executables however you feel like.
The vast majority of the Japanese doujin games I buy don't have installers in the first place so it's what I'm used to.

what the hell is she saying in nipponese in this scene

Yeah ok? So how do you get the digital game without going online? What are you even doing? Do people purposefully just misinterpret things? I never even mentioned steam

Yes you can.