When was the beginning of the end of the video games?

When was the beginning of the end of the video games?

Valve, specifically when they required Steam with Half Life 2 when it came out and people didn't boycott.

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Halo making consolebabies think they can play FPSes.

Xbox 360 and achievements

gacha. Yes, Japan were the biggest contributor to ruining video games, not that people here will admit that.

Valve is trash but I would rather get assfucked by them than live in an alternate universe where Activision or EA or Ubisoft dominates the PC space.

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Gatchas, 'Dragons of Atlantis' and its ilk popularizing "pay to not wait" games, and I'd say people buying up over-priced map packs like they were fucking gold encrusted were the things that began the avalanche.

Phone games

why do pc people hate steam so much?
>99% of worthwhile pc games all congregated into one place
>has ridiculous sales every other day, used to have deals where games got as low as 95% off
>even if you're asspained over steam there are plenty of competent alternatives
Do you just miss owning something physical, even though steam is cheaper and more convenient in addition to being a platform that indie devs can put their work on and thus isn't 100% dominated by big publishers?

PC would be fucking dead as shit were it not for Steam.

Or did you forget that last gen period where tons of multiplatform games only came to PS3 and 360 because PC was considered a dying platform?

Valve is responsible for what's wrong with most of gaming now.
>microtransactions out the ass
>lootboxes out the ass
>popularizing DRM so that there's now a million different pc clients for installing a game
>early access popularized
Shoulda just stuck to making decent games.

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1995 with the release of the PlayStation, thus beginning the 3D revolution.

When games came out of the arcade and people started playing them at home. Circa 1985.

When they were fucking invented

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they should have never been something people were able to play in the household

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>why do pc people hate steam so much?
Not speaking for everybody of course, but I don't hate them. I just wish I can be less depended on them.
>99% of worthwhile pc games all congregated into one place
Never get your eggs in one basket.
>Do you just miss owning something physical
Yes.

before that. steam was the point of no return

Because eventually even Steam will go bankrupt or get bought and everyone will lose everything they bought on the platform.

>used to have deals where games got as low as 95% off
>USED TO
key words there

Valve's assets wouldn't turn to dust if Gabe were to blow the budget on hookers. Another company would scoop them up and take the reigns of everything.

They still have ridiculous sales, people just traded rock bottom sales for the ability to refund games.

And what do you think happens when another company takes over? Everything stays the same? No, there's a high chance that if they bought out the platform, the company has their own plans for it. Typically shitty ones for the consumer.

video games were fun back in the arcades and they're still fun.

>steam
>going bankrupt

Yea. no. Even if valve started blowing every last dollar on the stupidest of shit, steam is going nowhere. Other companies would be chomping at the bit to buy Steam.

Sure, but there wouldn't be much point rocking the boat considering steam is a money printer. It doesn't matter anyway, Valve would have to purposefully try to tank themselves if they wanted to see what its like to be bankrupt.

When dlc and paying online to play became acceptable. You have no one to blame but yourselves.

Even before that. The PS1 was the beginning of normalfags getting into gaming and nearly the entire industry shifting to please them.

Not really. They pretty much match console sales now.

When games began to think loot boxes were a good idea.

This really.

I hate walled gardens but Steam takes all the headache out of being a PC Gaymer

i don't get this, the walls of kay-bee toystores etc were lined with atari games back in the 80s. normalfags always played consoles when they were mass marketed.

And eventually we'll stop using discs and new PCs won't have them, so your physical copy is worthless unless you have a 15 year old computer lying around.

There is no beginning of the end, because video games are an industry unto themselves and are going nowhere. The survive and thrive despite the cancerous reputations of triple-A developers, the loot box scam, and flood of Early Access projects that are doomed to failure.

>Valve goes bankrupt
>other company buys Steam
>other company makes/has their own platform
>other company shuts down Steam in its' current form
>customers have to buy their games again on the other platform
This is way too probable to happen, and most likely, all the games won't even be on the new platform so you'll end up losing some exclusives that you can't find anywhere.

that sounds like a lousy business decision, to unilaterally enrage your entire customer base like that. wouldn't it be more profitable to support the existing platform or make it somehow compatible with the new to keep the profit coming in smoothly?

Why would any company ever do that? Steam is already a very established and recognized brand that basically prints money.

I sure do love Cool Spot, it makes me thirst for a good ol' 7UP (TM), I think I'll go buy some now!

lol no. That would be suicide for the company in question. "hey you know that new cawadooty shootemup game with season pass you bought for $110 less than 3 weeks ago? You have to re-purchase it lol. K bye"

There would be a general outrage all around. Not to mention the legality of it all.

It was never, despite some obviously shitty trends video games are the best they've ever been right now.

fucking shill games

In the Steam contract verbiage they note that is Steam were to discontinue service, the site would arrange a method for owners of games to download them. How exactly this works is a bit of a mystery. It would probably be a ticket system of some sort.

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Their initial conception
All things must end eventually, decay is natural