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I stopped playing computer games years ago because every time I tried to play counterstrike steam wouldn't even loving load the game more than half the time. Steam is the worst thing ever and I will never reinstall that piece of poo poo
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Boner Medicine posted:Steamed Hams I was saying boo urns
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Jul 6, 2014 15:24
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Quickscope420dad posted:Okay attention doubled. Is it particular games, or literally any, and which are the most desirable / how to attain *business mode*
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Jul 6, 2014 16:05
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When people rob my house they can't steal my physical games. The only downside is multiplayer games which stop being supported, though this usually only applies to free-to-play style games. Also the trick to not getting annoyed with steam load times is to either use sleep mode on your computer for faster boot times or just never turn your computer off at the box. Power outages are regrettable inconveniences and you learn to deal with them.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:21
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Dicky B posted:i'm not going to write an effort post about the tf2 economy because i would be here all day but suffice it to say that it's not worth your time and effort I hate to be the guy to bring them up again, but earning money from Team Fortress 2 item mining is about as effective as Bitcoin mining. And the payout is the same... fake money. You can farm all day in TF2 and if you earn $100 or if you earn $5000 it all goes to video games.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:23
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Yivgev posted:i saw a person who was level 140 on steam today and i wanted to kill them in real life for being such a worthless piece of poo poo i just started using steam a month ago. I'm lvl 2 
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Jul 6, 2014 16:24
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buying pc games used to suck balls. you'd buy the game, put the discs in your computer... back in the days of floppy disks, there'd be like 20 loving disks, and one would always mysteriously go bad. that sucked. we then got cds, which were a little better - but you'd have to keep the cd in the drive! that sucked! once the internet became popular, you'd always have to spend like 4 hours finding patches and then finding nocd patches that worked with the new versions and dealing with daemon tools - that poo poo frigging sucked. now you right click, install, and everything is handled!
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Jul 6, 2014 16:30
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:buying pc games used to suck balls. This. 100% this. Also, a lot of the people that bitch about Steam not d/l their games are unaware that the program is designed NOT to download poo poo when your computer is busy with other poo poo. So if your machine is loving around with Windows Updates or running a virus scan or infested with malware or a billion other things, it won't download, or download slow and sporadically.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:43
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:buying pc games used to suck balls. Sometimes you'd get everything installed and it wouldn't run due to some kind of RAM bullshit, or the sound wouldn't work since you had the wrong soundblaster drivers.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:50
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steam big picture and inhome streaming owns
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Jul 6, 2014 17:08
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I don't like digital distribution because at least when you buy the discs you, like, actually own it maaaaan. When Steam goes bankrupt and shuts down 20 years from now you'll wish you had listened to me! -doesn't have a working disc-based game more than a few years old because scratches/digital rot/no longer compatible with your OS/lost it/it requires online authentication anyways-
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Jul 6, 2014 17:20
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I like their business model, and I have trust that in 10 years my library of games will still be there. That's all you really need to run a successful business. A good reputation.
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Jul 6, 2014 17:22
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when i got scribblenauts on steam it turned out it didnt unlock for another 4 months in europe for some reason so i typed the games name into google to figure it out and the very first result was a link to a crack that let me play the steam version immediately what im getting at: lol if you care about steam servers going down, you can already crack em if necessary
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Jul 6, 2014 17:25
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I don't like digital distribution because at least when you buy the discs you, like, actually own it maaaaan. When Steam goes bankrupt and shuts down 20 years from now you'll wish you had listened to me! Not a issue since Gaben will be a eternal being like the warhammer emperor.
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Jul 6, 2014 17:42
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lmao this op has trouble running Steam System Requirements Windows XP, Vista, or 7 512 MB RAM 1 Ghz or faster processor
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Jul 6, 2014 17:51
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Xachariah posted:lmao this op has trouble running Steam probably has a 56k modem for his internet too.
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Jul 6, 2014 17:55
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Steam is a clunky piece of poo poo web browser. Perhaps if they actually improved the client instead of making hats it wouldn't be poo poo. Oh and it enables terrible developers to have a billion small patches that get in the way of me getting to play my game. Of course it could be worse it could be uplay.
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Jul 6, 2014 18:06
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people like steam because it's the best thing to run a train on besides your mother
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Jul 6, 2014 18:08
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Early Access is terrible but so are gamers so it's a perfect fit.
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Jul 6, 2014 18:09
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how do those steam cards even work like it doesn't make sense that they have any value at all
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Early Access is terrible but so are gamers so it's a perfect fit. pay to beta test bad games lol
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Big Beef City posted:how do those steam cards even work like it doesn't make sense that they have any value at all
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Jul 6, 2014 18:26
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Big Beef City posted:how do those steam cards even work like it doesn't make sense that they have any value at all basically a real estate bubble sim for gamers
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Jul 6, 2014 18:26
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Steam started off nicely but it's turned into a pile of poo poo. I'm constantly getting bombarded with advertisements, invites to spammy poo poo groups I know nothing about, and fullscren apps constantly get interrupted to tell me all this poo poo. Even after disabling all the discernible notifications in settings. gently caress Steam.
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Jul 6, 2014 18:30
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Berious posted:Don't care about DRM or whatever but every time I'll feel like playing a game I'll start Steam then it'll take maybe half a minute to get completely loaded up then it'll want to update Steam yet again for no discernible improvements and by then I've gone off the idea of playing anything. Plus it's a slow piece of poo poo even when it isn't updating for once and in 2014 for mods and so forth we can't even select which version of a game we'd want to play - it's either the latest or gently caress you. Yet people rave about Steam like it's the best thing ever. It's a piece of poo poo. Congrats on being the whitest person i've encountered today
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Jul 6, 2014 18:34
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revmoo posted:Steam started off nicely but it's turned into a pile of poo poo. I'm constantly getting bombarded with advertisements, invites to spammy poo poo groups I know nothing about, and fullscren apps constantly get interrupted to tell me all this poo poo. Even after disabling all the discernible notifications in settings. gently caress Steam. Second whitest, congrats
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Jul 6, 2014 18:35
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etalian posted:pay to beta test bad games lol I bought an unfinished game and it turns out it was unfinished! drat you gaben  It's seriously depressing that a third of the active threads in Games are about hyping up goons into giving money to games that are a glorified alpha
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Jul 6, 2014 18:36
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quakster posted:they only have value because bored kids have too much cash Wait, they have value?
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Jul 6, 2014 18:38
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I bought an unfinished game and it turns out it was unfinished! drat you gaben Don't forget about Barkley 2 and that clown game, goon projects (lol) that are more vaporware than Star Citizen
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Jul 6, 2014 18:39
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Robo Reagan posted:Don't forget about Barkley 2 and that clown game, goon projects (lol) that are more vaporware than Star Citizen The Barkley game looks rad as gently caress but the Dropsy guy had done like 4 kickstarters trying to live vicariously through his 2006 GBS meme and still has nothing to show for it.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I bought an unfinished game and it turns out it was unfinished! drat you gaben but but it's goon approved game development.
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Jul 6, 2014 18:44
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As a goon if prefer diesel punk over steam punk op
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revmoo posted:Steam started off nicely but it's turned into a pile of poo poo. I'm constantly getting bombarded with advertisements, invites to spammy poo poo groups I know nothing about, and fullscren apps constantly get interrupted to tell me all this poo poo. Even after disabling all the discernible notifications in settings. gently caress Steam. Cool story I also have Steam and haven't seen any of that or have any idea what you're talking about.
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Jul 6, 2014 19:25
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Press button, get video game. Its pretty convenient.
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steam is better than all the alternatives
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Big Beef City posted:how do those bitcoins even work like it doesn't make sense that they have any value at all
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DSauer posted:Press button, get video game. Its pretty convenient. Ignore buying games on release date, enjoy 50% or more discount a few months down the road. Gaben basically saved PC gaming
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because steam is the itunes of video games steam manages to make it easier to buy games than it is to pirate them, considering almost every game  'd you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make it work right, and even then some of them end up glitchy or weird.also the steam marketplace being numbered in real-world currency instead of volvo funpointz is amazing, because it convinced retards that their stupid internet hats have real value, because they think they made a profit, despite said profit being locked into a system which only lets you purchase video games and digital hats. p lmao. Larry Parrish fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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revmoo posted:Steam started off nicely but it's turned into a pile of poo poo. I'm constantly getting bombarded with advertisements, invites to spammy poo poo groups I know nothing about, and fullscren apps constantly get interrupted to tell me all this poo poo. Even after disabling all the discernible notifications in settings. gently caress Steam. lol are you even thinking of the same program because none of this ever happens
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Larry Parrish posted:also the steam marketplace being numbered in real-world currency instead of volvo funpointz is amazing, because it convinced retards that their stupid internet hats have real value, because they think they made a profit, despite said profit being locked into a system which only lets you purchase video games and digital hats. p lmao.
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