Steam is king because: -Has a LOT of features and useful things for the user(steam overlay, remote play, big picture for TVs, family share, offline mode, cloud saves, send gifts to a friend, support for multiple controllers like dualsense) -Has a community around games and you can interact with people, watch guides and artwork, solve bugs for older games or just hang around -You can review games and see if its good or not -The refund policy is great -Steam Sales -Steam Deck -Awesome Linux support (Proton) and Mac OS -The interface is so simple, and its not that of a resource hog for your computer like other buggy launchers (Epic Games Launcher, EA app, Ubisoft Connect) -Most people has the vast majority of their games on steam and its kind of annoying to open multiple launchers for different games.
Another thing that I think helps Steam stay the king is that Valve is not a publicly traded company. And also the Steam Workshop. Steam has good support for free video game modding. For some examples, just look at the workshop pages for Black Ops 3, Terraria, tmodloader, Black Mesa, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, and more.
Don't entirely agree with it not being a resource hog. Steam overlay is pretty slow, especially the new one (I have a 12600K and 4080 and opening the new overlay sometimes takes a few seconds). And I noticed it sometimes using up 1.1 GB of RAM in task manager, which is fine for me since I have 32 gigs, but for someone with 16 it could have an impact. Agree with everything else though.
Epic games doesn't even want install into a non-empty folder. Steam flatout has a move location option on their files. Hell, epic doesn't even want users to be able review games much less a community portion.
I mean, why make ANOTHER site or place to review games and give feedback on them when Reddit, Discord, and sites like the LTT Forum already exist? Also, review bombing is still a thing.
@@odeiraoloap Steam reviews ensures me the reviewers actually own the game. And there's useful filters like playtime that let me sort by negative, positive, and how much playtime is on that particular account. It also shows me how many hours they had played when they made the review. To me that is very useful and makes Steam my preferred site for reading user reviews for games.
For what valve has done for linux users, I'll stay there forever! You can essentially start any steam game out of the box and it'll work. It seriously wasn't like that before proton.
The two biggest problems with steam are A: no proper support, bug-fixing for retro games and no forced removal of DRM from games. If Steam stripped DRM from older games and patched older games like "heros of might and magic" to make them playable and put back in missing content That would cause the entire business model of GoG (good old games) to completely collapse and they would absorb their market-share. Its amazing they still haven't figured that one out after 20 goddamn years.
Well id replace forever with aslong as Gabe is involved in Valve. But yes without Steams Proton work I wouldnt even have though of getting rid of Windows even though Windows seems to get worse everytime.
The thing about Steam is that it has family share, really a big difference to me, I combined library with my 2 brothers and we take turns on who buy the game (usually single player game for this case), really saving a lot of money with this flow, and also still give the illusion “you can share your game” in digital format. Also with taking turns, there is no “fat” accounts that hold all the games, ultimately we share the amount of game almost equally among the accounts, and for some multiplayer games, we still bought each for our account (if we were to play them all).
And it also helps with less competition. You can still play other games while they are, so no one gets really mad about things. Unless you and your brothers want to play one game and fight, which is what most siblings do anyways
One of you can just go offline mode in Steam so that you can both play the same game at the same time. That's how my wife and I have been doing it recently for Cyberpunk 2077.
@@lovelysakurapetalsyt the good things about single player game is that it usually takes a long time to finish, so let's say one currently playing Spider-Man and other is FF7Remake, it is very rare that one will conflict with other as usually you are invested with what you currently play. The time where we fight for games is when the game initially release (ie. Elden Ring), where we all want to play it first 😂 There is also a hacky way to do this, the second one need to off his internet so steam doesn't count that the library is currently in play, but this hack usually only matter on first week of new released game.
That's really a huge thing, especially when new games are often over $50 a copy. It really is a throwback to the good days of being able to take turns playing one copy of a game on a single console
Yup... having ads in Steam will hurt user experience. I love how game that's recommended to me (by similarity) has high hit rate that I really want to buy it.
The main reason why Steam is the king is because it is still not a PUBLICLY TRADED company. Once you go public, mere profits aren't good enough, but you need INCREASING PROFITS/SALES else it's a long day. I hope it stays that way, we all saw what happened with Reddit recently. Once these corporations go public, everything starts going downhill. I am against Monopoly, but some sectors I feel it is necessary for the consumer. Like Gaming Store and OTT. remember the time before Disney, WB, Paramount, Universal, etc joined the OTT space, and it was just Netflix. What a good time it was, now it's just like TV subscriptions, just online, not to mention Binge Watching is also dead due to weekly release schedule of most shows now.
Well I think binge watching is a detriment to shows. Especially today with how social media works now. You talk about a show for only a week. Engage in it and the community that it starts to create. Then its popularity quickly dies out, but with a show releasing an episode once a week, they can have long-term popularity and engagement. Look at how The Last Of Us show blow up every week for two months, but something like Wednesday or Stanger Things dies out in about 2 to 3 weeks.
epic store lacks a lot compared to steam, for me the biggest downside to using epic store is just the lack of anything on the games library like it's only their to show ur collection and download it, no game front just straight to download.
it also lacks the entire forum component steam has, which can be pretty useful to seek information on a game, report bugs (if the devs use it for that), and communicate or the workshop system, allowing quick and easy modding for many games it actually feels like a platform you can spend time on and interact with communities rather than just a hollow store that baits people with free games, but has zero features
@@EliphaserEh. *Reddit, Discord, and dedicated forum sites already exist* for that. Epic trying to create ANOTHER FORUM just to catch up to Steam doesn't make logical sense. I mean, there's way more usable information on r/lowsodiumcyberpunk than the dedicated Steam Forum for Cyberpunk (and a significantly less whiny community too!)
@@odeiraoloap yes ur right but that's not the point, the point is that if i check a game i should also be able to see what other people think about the game right there and then no opening of other tabs just so i could check if its any gud or not.
@@odeiraoloap I think having to rely on completely different websites to be able to see at least some community feedback is pretty stupid, and old forum format websites can be pretty frustrating to deal with, while the steam community is at least somewhat more convenient to use it's a feature that may not be the most useful to have, but is still a pretty good option, and if your game (like many indie games) is almost entirely based on steam, it saves the cost of hosting a forum in the first place the steam community forum is also built in with the rest of the features of steam, you don't need a bajillion accounts like you would if every game you have and interact with/report bugs had their own dedicated forum website you'd need to go for while reddit and discord are pretty convenient, not everyone uses them, so it's a nice option to have, and the social/community hubs is something that epic is completely devoid of, which to me is just one of the many reasons (I believe the workshop is more significant) that epic doesn't get that far
Because "oh gosh golly gee, what happens if someone puts anime boobies as their profile picture?! Good heavens how will gamers' small smooth brains ever cope with such a tragic incident" 🤣 Users clearly prefer the platform with more free user expression and better features.
The difference between Steam and Epic is Valve actually cares about creating and maintaining a good service for its consumers, whereas Epic is caught up on this idea that they need to try and force people to use their platform through exclusivity while rarely improving the platform itself. The simple truth is Epic is never going to catch up to Steam that way. I literally only use Epic for the free games, never buying anything cause when I do buy something it's obviously going to purchased on Steam, cause Steam is better by leagues and miles. Edit: On a side note, if the game is timed exclusive on Epic, I just wait or I just don't buy it.
Remember when so many big publishers including Ubisoft, Microsoft and even Epic games were abandoning the pc market because it was "dying" and there was no money to make. Remember how pc gamers were just labelled as pirates. But Valve said that piracy is a service problem. And they stuck with the pc platform through and through. Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so do I.
Please do a specific episode on mobile, non pay-to-win games that are optimized for handheld controls. With the powerful SoC in our smartphones it's a sin that it's so difficult to find such kind of games. Yes, there're many lists online, but I have always the impression that they are either biased towards sponsors or awfully incomplete.
tim sweeney... eh, he just doesn't understand, does he? he created a "free games" platform at his own wish, and he still believes that people will start buying games there, just because they got a lot of free games there no my guy, you are the free games platform, you lost at the start, and it was your decision
It could have made some sense in that it kept player coming back to see any improvements over time, but the problem is that there were literally very little to no improvements. If only they spent half the free games money on their developers, they could have got a lot larger audience.
@@GnanaPrakash86AP to me it seems like after fortnite BR income did seem like endless, so epic made a series of bad decisions justified just by "fortnite will pay for it", and now fortnite can't pay for it anymore because it's not generating nearly as much i can't judge the intentions, but i can judge actions, and epic's actions seemed AT BEST questionable, like "we will take smaller cut so publishers can sell games cheaper and make same profit", because surely nobody will just sell games at same price and take higher income, right? just to name one mistake trust me, i could talk about it for hours, listing each and every mistake and giving the reasoning why it was bad, just don't feel like posting it in youtube comments of all places
I mean, look at how much money Valve made off of skins in CS: GO. And take a look at Grand Theft Auto Online and how much money it continues to make for Rockstar Games using microtransactions (on top of all the sales of Grand Theft Auto V since 2013). It's not surprising that Epic Games thought that all the money made from selling V-bucks would help pay for all the free games they kept giving away.
The Kong game is already on sale on Steam on its release date. They have it labeled as an introductory sale price, but I'm pretty sure that's just smoke and mirrors because the game is getting blasted, and they are trying to make what they can.
Imagine going to a movie and they havent run it through post production yet. Governments would get involved and fines would be paid out. And yet in the gaming industry this is normal now...
Bf2042 is in good shape at the moment. my favorite fps but they removed the 128 player mode for a week and it may affect new players who bought the game after the free weekend
It's still bugged like crazy tho. First day of the free weekend i had to restart the game after every single match. In one game i also had all my weapon turned invisible. Second day, i had the black screen issue just once, so i decided to buy it today as the situation seemed to have gotten better, only to find out that now i have like a 2 seconds long giga stutter every 60 seconds in every single game which is frustrating as hell.
I am REALLY worried what will happen to Steam when Gabe Newell is gone... Someone is bound to come in and "optimize" it for profit. I wonder if he has a plan for this.. i hope so.
Depending on your timezone it might've been the 14th. Although I've seen a leaked screenshot from alte September, which shows something that was in no trailer.
@@d.wolfin152Well that's not what I'm saying. I said that I don't think that the amount of double-buyers/smurfs/multi-accs/whatever is that high at all. Using your "potentially tens of mullions" I could also say that the entirety of Minecraft is potentially just a single person who bought the game 300 mil times. I doubt that, just as I doubt there are "tens of millions" of those.
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I'm tired of every single Battlefield for a while now having the same life cicle of being awful, which pushes people to the old game that after updates "It's great now!" until they eventually fix the current one. Well, I guess is it great to hear the new one is now good, but we already know how the next one will release because then again EA would find that they need to "innovate" the game somehow.
yet it's still not great at all lmao, everything is still inferior to bf3/4/1. -many wannabe apex legends heroes barely look like soldiers -both teams use the exact same heroes, which totally screws team recognition (no, a red flashing light is not a fix AGAIN check bf3/4/1 where all teams were visually different and recognizable) -hero system is still there (and dice basically confirmed they will double down in the next bf which is... like maliciously incompetent at this point) -cross system is still a thing for some reason while it has been proven to be inferior to old "just choose your accesories" menu -the railgun tank that can easily oneshot kill any aircraft with barely any leading still exists (edit: forgot to mention how easy it is to also spawncamp enemy aircrafts giving them literally no counterplay) and that's just off the top of my head, the game is still easily the worst battlefield title by far, it never "got good", it just got less bad i hate how most people saying "it got good" have only played 1 onwards (even more so considering 1's gameplay is, while restricted because of the setting, still a very solid battlefield) tldr: a polished turd is still a turd
@@Frank-qn7de - That's bs, what part of people in military gear doesn't look like soldiers? - I've played countless hours of BF4 servers, where it's CN vs CN, RU vs RU and US vs US. People have been shooting at red doritos since BC1, you people are insane if you think otherwise - Nothing was confirmed, you just read some dumbass tweet or watched a youtube video, where the person lied to you. - Plus is literally the best thing about 2042 - This has been nerfed a week ago :^) Cry about it, BF2042 is still not anywhere near as boring and bad as BF1
@@thebigsam -"That's bs, what part of people in military gear doesn't look like soldiers?" only irish, boris and the recon guy look like actual soldiers, the rest literally look like larpers that got lost during an airsoft match or something while others like sundance look like they got teleported sudendly from a starbucks -"I've played countless hours of BF4 servers, where it's CN vs CN, RU vs RU and US vs US. People have been shooting at red doritos since BC1, you people are insane if you think otherwise" cn vs cn etc is only a thing sometimes in community servers, and shooting at doritos only applies to scouted enemies (weird you should know that) which means that my point still stands -"Nothing was confirmed, you just read some dumbass tweet or watched a youtube video, where the person lied to you." consider the track record of bfv and 2042 and say to my face they will surely not screw their fanbase again and will give classes back without the hero BS with a straight face, hell those 2 games are like this on purpose, the new devs at dice hate the playerbase, if they didnt they atleast wouldn't have corrupted the ww2 theme with current day american propaganda bs and they wouldn't have butchered the core gameplay of 2042 getting rid of classes. yes they are that spiteful -"Plus is literally the best thing about 2042" this is the least BS take of the whole comment, its that bad -"This has been nerfed a week ago :^)" oh good! now remind me how many months has it been it was straight up busted? also -"BF2042 is still not anywhere near as boring and bad as BF1" thats funny considering i also think bf1 is the weakest BUT isnt it funny that considering the ww1 setting which limits battlefield as a game in comparison to current year setting it manages to be not just a better product but a better battlefield (the most important point btw) overall? not even mentioning bf3 or 4, 2042 is categorically downgrade in every aspect but graphics, sorry you like liking boots, atleast i hope EA pays minimum wage for this
I'd just like to know how many JackFrags videos came out in between launch and now, titled something like "2042 is fixed!" Or "2042 is actually good now." I still play V with a group of friends almost nightly. Anytime someone ventures off to 2042 to see if it's better, they always come back.
I kinda feel really bad for the devs on 2042, the passion and care they have for developing the game really shows when you listen to the “inside battlefield” podcast they did also explain everything that happened around launch, and honestly not joking here, I have about 250 hours played of 2042 on steam and I love it, it’s probably my second favourite battlefield game behind battlefield 4 more people should give it a second chance, it’s a completely different game then the one that launched 2 years ago
Looking very forward too steam os coming desktop pc. We’re all tired of BLOATED windows. We need some os competition, ms has BULLIED all other OS companies out business expect Mac OS and Linux.
@@Generic_RU-vid_Username_ Hey ya totally agree, just wish we knew when it coming out. With rumours valve maybe working either on steam deck 2 or maybe steam box, would love see steam box with steam os. I think if Valve ever launch steam os for desktop pc. I think over nite a lot ppl would quickly switch and then hopefully devs and other IP will jump on board and even more support steam deck/steam os. We need this too happen. So your deck been good? :)
Netflix essentially can't go more than one season without screwing up a show. So when it come to making games I have zero faith in their ability. They couldnn't get Candy Land right if there was a gun to their family's heads.
Looked into Gamemill with some friends because the Kong game was such an immediate meme, they seem to be pure corporate licensed shovelware. Literally just scrolling through the games they've published is free entertainment.
Im DCAing in ZOR55T as well. ETH heavier DCA and ALGO. Im taking your advice and starting Google tomorrow with a 50 dollar purchase and continuing Microsoft and Apple. VTI and VOO on another app and longterm portfolio. Here we go family!
Id love to see a netflix friendly GTA game. I assume it will be a 90% minority LGBTQIA+ cast taking down the white man and shaming the audience every other joke.
i'm wondering if netflix ever though of making a game out of it's castlevania series, i believe that would make great games. maybe something along the lines of metroid? you know, something like that
coming up on 5 years and the epic store hasn't really improved over that time. i only use it for exclusives because i'm not gonna wait 1-2 years to play a game...though i have friends that dedicated 😂
The Epic Game Store, takes MINUTES to load. Steam takes SECONDS. I think Epic should probably stop giving away free games that aren't indie games. Like, I get this loss-leader model, and why they sometimes gave away something that would normally cost $60,-$90, but I won't touch ANY free game that has lootboxes.
Cant deny the fact that Amazons ZOR55T is the strongest bet to bring power back to this industry after we suffered FTX, Celsius, Tera and so on. Sure if they fail its done for good, but I dont see that the biggest tech company in the world would put ev
@@SrSamuertoits not a bot… we all know that amazons ZOR55T is going to keep the meme train running. Can’t wait to watch my Uncle smugly waste the rest of his life saving
not sure if he has always done this but now I'm really noticing how much he's moving his hands. I only noticed it cuz it was TOO much, almost like he had to pee or something.
Epic has a long way to go before they can catch up with steam. They should have spent the money wasted on doing crappy game giveaways to actually work on their launcher and add features.... there's still no way to review a game on there like wtf.
Apparently the fact that Minecraft is getting an official star wars map is more news worthy then all of the content announced for the next major update
I have been wanting a new "Peter Jackson's King Kong" for so long to only get this mess that now I honestly wish it didn't exist. Holy shit is that a monstrosity of a fuck up
Game streaming on Netflix will not change plan prices, it will probably only be available for the highest tier. If that's the case, I'm considering lowering my plan.
