I actually enjoy using my Steam points to decorate my avatar with boarders and my profile with backgrounds. If they expanded the concept to where you could use your points for game discounts (although given how many Steam sales there are, that might be redundant, but you could use them on games that aren't put on sale often), it would probably get more love.
The only thing I have ever used my nearly 70k steam points on is giving awards to reviews, guides etc. Something I do fairly often which is how I know I have almost 70k points as you see your balance every time you buy an award.
Steam levels are actually useful for one thing: detecting hackers. If you are suspicious of someone cheating and their steam profile is level 1/its the only game they have, its a pretty good bet they are hacking and you should report them.
@@SuperKnight106 What does wanting your info private have to do with cheating? Mines set to friends only cause why does everyone else need to know anymore than my username?
@@udalix cheaters often hide their profile so you cant see they are level 1 with 20 hours in the game. Its not a thing in of itself, but if you are suspicious of someone and they are private, its more suspicious
0:22 Number 10 - Steam Point 1:58 Number 9 - Bethesda launcher 3:22 Number 8 - Wii Sports and Switch Sports Accessories Nintendo 4:27 Number 7 - Ghost Recon Breakpoint 6:08 Number 6 - Nintendo Switch Box 7:16 Number 5 - Lifetime Subscriptions 8:52 Number 4 - Ouya 10:20 Number 3 - Unmodded Original Xbox 11:44 Number 2 - Hipshotdot 12:49 Number 1 - Vertical Keyboard
Same goes for Ninendo's self-destructing points, except that Ninendo is constantly reminding you by email that you have useless points you can't really do anything useful with (partially because they've already expired by the time you go to buy a new game).
It might only fit for people who have an unhealthy preference for playing games on the Switch. I don't get enough points to buy games often, but I've never had my gold points expire and have bought games under $10 multiple times (completely covered by my available Gold points). Usually these are indie games or anything around $20 or less on a steep sale.
You can thank the Spiffing Brit and company for finding a way to use Starbound during a Steam Event to farm for infinite points to buy games at discount. after that Steam shut down that ability and seemed to have abandoned any intention of reintroducing points for discounts on games. it is afterall perfectly balanced and not in anyway exploitable.
instead of a marker and tape, I had a friend who was studying game design write a simple program that drew a red dot in the center of the screen on a system level, so it wasn't detected by anti cheat. The dot was drawn after each frame of the game by the windows UI system.
looking at the Ouya I can't help but think that if one was an artist you could decorate the outside with some graphics or add a figure on top to make a really interesting trophy or a statue for a decoration so it's not nearly useless, it has less cubic area than most consoles so if one is creative and it is legal they could go into business as an Ouya refurbishment (?) dealer
The lifetime subscription to LOTRO Online was actually a good thing and still is as you got free money every month along with other perks as well as the expansions when they came out and the new character classes that other people had to purchase.
You really went hard on Breakpoint. The game is nothing like it was on release, it’s a totally different experience and a lot better than what was first shipped. A very underrated game
I enjoy gamer score/ achievement levels. I think it's just the satisfaction of getting 100% on a game and not bragging about how high of level or score you have.
0 - A girlfriend. Every gamer wants one, but they're just a distraction. They yell at you, throw things at you, they get in the way of your TV/monitor, they turn things off when you're trying to do something, they want you to go outside and socialise(like wtf is that madness), and worst of all they don't even make sandwiches anymore so you have to get up and make your own. Literally useless.
14:01 is actually trueee bruhh. A friend of mine actually bought this and tried completing darksouls with it tho if I remember correctly the keyboard is still sitting in his store room 😂
So I'm sitting at my desk watching this video. My girlfriend is in the bed playing on her laptop. We are both big fans of the channel. At 0:08 the most amazing thing that could ever happen, happened. You referred to multiple computer mouses as mouses. Not mice. For the last 3 years we have been regularly debating if several computer mouses are mouses, or mice. "I'm going to Best Buy to check out their mouses." This is correct. Mice are what you feed to your pet snake, or call someone to get out of your walls. She contends that I am going to look at mice. I paused the video and turned slowly in my chair, like the Chris Pratt parks and recreation GIF, and she already knew what was coming. Thank you gameranx. I wish I could like this video twice. Also, I just found out I have 165,114 Steam points. Go me. Edit: Further into the video, we were just at Game Stop a few days ago, Game Stop carries keyboards and MOUSES now by the way, and I bought the Bio Shock collection for the Switch. Got home and opened it, and was like, "those idiots! They didn't put the cartridge in the case!" Not to mention, they stuck that big ass Game Stop sticker right over the full game download text on the cover of the case. Why?!
So i got the physical edition of LOTRO that included the LifeTime-SUB for $200, & the VIP-SUB is otherwise $100/Year & only the 1-Year one is still available today. But they're constantly adding new stuff to both VIP & F2P, so i stil enjoy most of it & still get sum in-Game bonus same as all the old & new.
Thing with that last keyboard is that you can adjust and build new muscle memory. We see this over and over whenever someone tries to prove the Devorak keyboard is better. Most people are familiar with the qwerty keyboard, so they struggle with Devorak at first until they get used to it and start to speed up. Pretty much matching their speeds on qwerty. Ultimately it is debatable that Devorak is better, but since qwerty is the standard, it really isn't worth debating. Everywhere you go you will find qwerty keyboards; it isn't worth the time to switch. As for the weird ergo keyboard I don't doubt given time you could learn to use it effectively. I actually loved my old ergo keyboard, the bent in the middle style. It only took me maybe a week to get used to it. But it just isn't worth it since I don't have that at work, or on my laptop. Sometimes it is just easier to go with what everyone else is using.
The Dvorak keyboard layout is so much more efficient and especially great for people like me who tend to get finger cramps after a lot of typing. I used it for a long time. Thing is if you get accustomed to it you struggle at jobs, which have the normal layout and mostly will go back to qwerty. It's the perfect example of doing a dumb thing, just because it was always done that way.
All I see it being good for is as a torture device to see how painful it is to hold your hands up above the desk unsupported for hours on end. Add to that the further stress of pressing buttons and I doubt most people wouldn't last more than a couple minutes using that thing. I certainly wouldn't want to try.
Every single day when I get home from work, be it the morning shift or the closing shift, I sit down, spark a fat one and proceed to watch Gameranx latest video. Thanks for existing guys.
Man...Secret World. I was so hype for that game. All the lore and backstory and promise of open-ended, choose your own abilities and story gameplay, I was hooked. Preordered, launched it day 1...and apparently they spent all the development on hype instead of gameplay. Unplayable janky mess of horrible targeting, bad interface and dialog that would have fit in the original RE. Saw it went F2P a few years later and thought "well, maybe they fixed some things and it is tolerable now." Nope. Easily my biggest disappointment in gaming, ever. Thanks for opening that scar back up, Falcon. (half-kidding, you're great)
Dunno what you’re talking about with the steam points I actually love them. They’re 100% not as buried as you say they are, they’re literally under the store tab. Hover over store, boom there it is. Wow, so buried. It gives you free cosmetic stuff for your account for spending money. What’s not to like about that when most people don’t have any cosmetic stuff for their profile at all? Customisation is nice!
12:30 I have 2 identical 32" curved monitors that have a built in button that turns on a center reticle specifically for FPS. I have never used it after I tried it once to see what it does.
As someone who's been using steam for about 12 years i greatly appreciate the option to customize my profile. Also it's normal to me to check out someone elses profile and at least half of all steam users i have interacted with seem to enjoy it too.
Hey there, Mr. FALCON. YOU SAID MOUSES. I trust you. Now I have to figure this out... Keep being awesome, and force Jake to buy you some pizza for me, cuz I haven't figured that nonsense out either.
i have 2 original xboxes, one is the one i kept from my childhood, still runs but disc tray wont open sometimes and i bought one from a 2nd hand game shop and runs perfect. my original one hasnt had any work but probly needs a check. the one i bought probably was serviced or fixed from problems over the years. both still play original xbox games and work great!
In regards to the lifetime subscriptions, I did the lifetime subscription to Secret World, while they did do away with the subscription to play the game, they still gave you veteran currency or the like that allowed you to get the DLCs for free and such. Or to buy premium items for your characters.
Those Wii Sports peripherals were useless for gamers, but a godsend as a parent. For $20 I got a half-dozen durable plastic play toys for my (then) 3 year-old at half the price as the same junk made by Fisher-Price.
UBI's at least seems to have reduced their focus on the nft bandwagon while squenix are going all in and will die as a result. Quartz highlighted a big issue with NFT's in games and that was "Not available in your region!" Noone in the UK could even get the play to earn ones. Hellgate london was EA, so yeah monetisation, but the hilarious thing was they only put the digital DRM into the 32bit version on the disc. You could (still can) copy the 64 bit version from the disc to hd and run without any problem. No good for multiplayer servers but does let you still play the game.
6:18 OMG ! The bane of all mankind ! This stuff eventually wound up at my local 99 cent store because NOBODY wanted it. Same as "Digital Copy" with movies. You got your MKV ? The hell with the Blu-Ray or DVD, you're good to go.
You can find steam points in the store tab, it's not hard to find, also what do you mean it's "point"less to have levels with a profile? Basically everything has that.
Now you made a point in this video but the other things I'm not going to really talk about here in my comment but having an empty switch case is actually pretty useful to some people less than others and what I mean by that is let's say for example you have Sonic game sitting up on your console because that's the reason game you're playing and you had a perfectly good case and you went off to school or work and younger sibling decides to be curious and get into your room and blank what they decide to do and then you come home from work and your room is completely destroyed an your favorite game Sonic the game is on the floor and the case is destroyed but the game is okay. You could use that empty case to put your Sonic game in along with artwork and then just display the artwork from the empty case game on a shelf or on a wall as a poster instead, also a lot of people like you said do display just an empty case on their shelf to fill in empty spaces and then remove it when they get a new game that actually has the game in it. And one more thing I almost forgot you can actually sell the case to someone who needs one for a dollar.
I wouldn’t say the steam point shop is useless or burried, infact if you got to the store featured page there is a tab right there for point shop, also having points to be able to pimp the profile is a nice feature since in the past the money u spent u only got the game but now u get the game and you get to make your profile look not ugly and boring.
some Artix entertainment games allow you upgrade your account for a one time fee and managed to stay up for a long old while (still up) been playing them for over a decade
With the empty cases it's great if you have another case that is broken I'm sure all of you who order a lot of games have had at least 1 or 2 games arrive with a broken case
I still have my og xbox from when I was a kid unmodded and never fixed. I’m 21 now and it still runs like a champ was playing nfs underground 1 the other week👍🔥
For #10, I had a somebody on my Friend's List that I hadn't spoken to in a long time message me out of nowhere asking me to give him Steam Points or do something that would get him Steam Points. I had no idea what he was talking about. I checked it out and told him I had something like 50,000 points. Then I told them it was really fucking weird to just message me out of nowhere asking for points. I gave them the minimum amount and told them to never do it again.
I disagree with Number 10 for multiple reasons. First if you like decking out your profile with like animated background you can use Steam points for that instead of buying them through the Marketplace like you use to have to do. Second the higher Steam Level you are the more slots for Friends you receive and more content you can put on your profile and last and this is a new one and that is that you can use Steam points to purchase custom keyboard layouts and UI designs for the Steam Deck... also the points shop is literally at the top of the main page and you can even see it in the image immediately after you complain about how hard it is to find the page for it.
i do use steam points to change my profile visuals every now and then, not totally useless though. i just hope i can convert it into real money when purchasing steam games
13:05 I type 135wpm with over 99% accuracy. I am not shitting you. The secret to my success ? Take your keyboard and rotate it counter-clockwise 22-degrees. This forces greater accuracy out of your fingers and you start to work on a 2-dimensional if not 1.5-dimensional field instead of just a straight line across. I have no idea what this SafeType disaster is, I found my center without it.
I used to like posters that came with grand theft auto games, but I don't care anymore. I think decorative stuff, especially in special editions is useless. I got the GTA 4 special edition and used the hell out of the safe and duffel bag. I wanted the fallout 3 lunchbox to use for school lunch, but I wasn't in school anymore at the time. Haha
I was tempted to get the Kickstarter lifetime subscription for an MMO that's coming out in the next few years... I'm guessing I won't be disappointed that I didn't.
Depends on how big that game gets. If it takes off, goes on for years and years, and keeps benefits for those liftetime subs even if they go free to play (like a few MMOs I know of did), then it would still be worth. But I absolutely would not chance the cost of a lifetime sub for a game still in kickstarter stages, that is risky as all hell.
I never used my Steam points anywhere, because I don't have much. And I don't have much points because I rarely buy games, currently I have only 7-10 games bought. Also, never understood people who buy fancy rgb keyboards or anything rgb at that matter. These things are completely pointless and serve only one single purpose - to show off how supposedly rich you are.
LoL Steam Points are useful to change up your steam accounts visuals or backgrounds, emotes, plus you can also collect game cards for games you have which helps to enhance your Steam Level which counts toward your Community Rating which is Your Combined Level As A Veteran Steam Gamer, hence why Noobs can't get them Unless you Earn Them. So no the points may not even be very useful but they Do Serve a Purpose. Best time to use your Steam Points? Steam specific sales for cool holiday stuff which comes in handy sometimes. - Typed by a "Pillar of the Steam Community"
