Why Does The Internet Worship Valve/steam/gabe?

most people prefer the misery of something they know rather than the uncertainty of something they don't, pretty basic human condition.

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/valve-gives-player-any-game-they-want-for-free-after-their-steam-controller-is-delayed-3365098/

Another thing to add to the list of why the internet "worships valve/steam/Gabe".


The standard of customer service is so *** up that doing the right thing is worthy of heaps of praise. Instead of being mad about "why the internet worships Gabe", perhaps you should be asking "why the internet has succumbed to accepting slop as the norm".

Saw something the other day that steam machines are already in USA warehouses. Dunno if they need to add anything component wise or not.

They need to figure out how deeply buried in ***they are for MSRP. Thats what the delay is.

It's a $400 5 year old pc that's gonna cost $1200. They're so ***.

Billionaires fund agenda movies and video games, this is why the most woke entertainment can make barely any money and be a crash out, and still be a success and fund sequels etc. Cause it's fully funded by people who have more money than sense anyway, and to whom 100m budget is like buying a can of coke.

I used to always be against stopping people making as much money as they want, but seeing these fking tards do with it we need the China system where billionaires who go against the state get disappeared.

I don't want to murder the billionaires, I want to tax them. Leave them just enough money for them to keep making money and paying taxes.

Its the goose and golden eggs thing.

As to Elon? You butcher the fattest pig first.

You can't tax unrealized gains.

A trillion dollars in TSLA stock has absolutely zero taxable value.

They're not walking around with a billy in their pockets.

To be accurate, many of these people are not actually billionaires.

Elon for instance isn't a billionaire, and so you can't really tax it out of them.

Liquid wealth isn't the same as company share holdings that you are unable to sell.

It's like if your relative gives you a mansion worth 50 million dollars, but you are not allowed to sell it. On paper you're worth 50 million dollars, but you could still starve to death if that's all you had.

Stock is not taxable, dividends are. As is income from selling stock.

Just having stock means FA. Market value changes.

They don't sell stock, the take loans against stock value

Then they buy a $2 painting for 10 million and donate it erasing all tax liability.

Feature not a bug.

The article mentions a social media post that went viral and a "small amount" of controllers that accidentally went to the UK. Depending how many that "small amount" were It could be peanuts to steam compared to the positive reception they get in return.

The viral social media post makes it a bit sus cause usually people post about negative customer service experiences and don't bother to mention good ones.

If it's not just a publicity stunt then it's definitely a nice pro consumer move and it's great if they got better on that front.

Unfortunately I'm afraid there is a pretty high chance that a lot of scalpers will benefit from this generosity.


Are the specs that bad??

The Radeon RX 7600 is a performance-segment graphics card by AMD, launched on May 24th, 2023. $270

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 is a desktop processor with 6 cores, launched in January 2023. $220

Or just google a 780m mini pc (and adjust pre rampocalypse pricing) ~$350 + $200 for rampocalypse

Two words, net worth. A wealth tax would tax their total net worth.

Property is taxable. My state has no income tax, we have sales and property taxes. The property we tax is only stuff like real estate and cars.

Yep. And set it up so the interest is tax deductible.

Not quite.

They inherit a painting their grandparents bought for $2 which is now appraised at $10 million. There are no capital gains taxes on inheritances.

They donate the painting to a non profit family foundation and get a tax deduction. The foundation places it in their mansion which is listed for tax purposes as a publicly accessible museum. That's another tax deduction. It is open to the public one day a year, the public is never informed about this.

Sometimes I wish KN still posted here, he knows way more about this tax stuff than I.

In the UK, farmers have land and machinery that is worth tens of millions of dollars and the government is trying to tax and suck the life out of them because of it. Every year the value of their land is increasing wildly.

They are not very wealthy in real terms, their net worth (long inherited land and assets) isn't the same as money in the bank or the money they make operating the farm.

The reason they are doing this, is mass immigration is creating a intense value bloating of land and property because of supply and demand (more people need more housing). The more people you import, the more valuable land becomes. This is why companies like Blackrock are mass buying property and land in as mass quantities as the government allow them to, it's a 100% guaranteed massive return on the investment as long as you can demand governments keep importing people (which they do just that).

Farmers should not be punished and taxed for things outside of their control and when they are not able to even pay what is being asked of them, net worth isn't relevant to how much taxes they pay.

One of the reasons the USA refuses to deal with billionaires is they can leave and go somewhere else, and become an asset for another nation (unless the US becomes a dictatorship and stops this, you cannot deal with them).

The EU for example is a complete ***show of utter incompetence because anyone that could create wealth or industry flees to the USA, which guarantees they will always be crap.

Everyone in power knows why things are the way they are, they lie to their voters and tell you those sweet little lies you love to get elected but when they get into power they do nothing any different because they can't.

Taxing farmers is what happens when stupid people get into power, stupid people being those who believe farmers are useless because grocery stores exist.

Steam afaik was the first digital game distributor. I think it's them who came up with the concept of tieing a game key to a account which, once redeemed, can't be resold anymore. If Gabe didn't invent that concept himself he at least made it common practice for video games.

The best part is the account isn't transferable either.

Did you know you can store up to 2000$ in your steam wallet and basically limitless dollars worth of in game items in your inventory?

If you have a accident all your games, steam funds and in game 'investments' are gone with you.


I'd expect more from someone who's considered the messiah of PC gaming.

Because I've seen most every other institution try to continually grow and entirely lose sight of their original goals. Steam is still everything Steam was originally, but more of it. It hasn't attempted to venture into every other industry.

I look at it similar to WoW. For decades every MMO that has launched since WoW people have hyped up as a "WoW killer", and they always fail. Because WoW got so big the only thing that can kill WoW is WoW. Well, that's Steam. Nothing is going to come and replace Steam.

That said, as soon as Gabe passes I'd be trying to move away from Steam because my general pattern recognition is that original CEO's usually keep things steady but once you have corporate suits running the show after them the corporation goes to ***. But until that happens, I consider Steam rather safe.

This sounds like an IQ test because why would you put a non-refundable two thousand dollars into your steam wallet?????


What happens to my pc and console and games if my house burns down or gets robbed?

I don't know, people get gift cards or they want to buy/sell in game items on the steam market. I think if you refund a purchase it also ends up in your steam wallet.

I'm not sure why you'd compare the above with acts of nature or criminal intent.
Afaik you can legally transfer your PC and console, even games if they are physical copies.

You can't transfer a steam account.

You are talking to the person that made a huge whine post about how there was no warning for wave2 in shared dynamis and whined about needing a grace period, be cause he didnt know where mobs spawn and didnt pay attention in the game (His words not mine)

Just to be informed there is an HP bar as a warning, AND a grace period already in effect.

An IQ test might be asking a lot from them.
This person just loves to whine, and feel victimized.

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just to put in some context to this
THey have made posts whining about:
- people cap'ing sparks during XP gain hours must be cheating because they could not do it themselves.
- people making Afterglow weapons must be cheating because it to big an effort for them.
- people /checking them on their gear
- people must be MP'king them in dynamis because they doen't know where mobs spawn and they don;t pay attention to the game all the time (again their words)

Hmm necro but Steam is awesome and valve even more so. Maybe some of you don't remember back in the bad days pre-Steam, digital distribution platforms sucked and companies would play games with DRM around those platforms. Then Valve decided to open up Steam to third parties, including their competitors, as a distribution platform. They didn't turn into evil *** trying to Microsoft all the competition and just focused on improving / standardizing the platform to the point it's better then everyone else.

Furthermore they decided to screw Microsoft by funneling development money into the most important libraries for playing modern games on Linux, DXVK and Proton. Doitsujin (Philip Rebohle), the developer of both (well Proton is a whole team), is paid by Valve for working on them.

https://github.com/doitsujin

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2018/09/an-interview-with-the-developer-of-dxvk-part-of-what-makes-valves-steam-play-tick/


Everything else can be ignored and thrown out, but the funding of Doitsujin for DXVK / Proton immediately puts Valve heads and shoulders over everyone else. Can anyone here serious imagine Epic, EA, or even lol Microsoft, working on this kind of open source translation layer?

What was the predominant digital distribution prior to Steam? I remember Direct2Drive, but I'm not sure I recall any others prior to that (aside from piracy sites)

From what I recall, prior to Steam companies just had their own download services. I may be misremembering, but that was the main innovation of Steam was the unified, almost Amazon-like, storefront system.

Having a alternative to windows for gaming is nice but linux users always get super hyped when someone throws them a bone and act like now everyone is going to migrate to linux now.

I imagine most people use software on windows that they would have to drop and in most cases replace with a less professional alternative or no alternative at all when migrating to linux.

When it comes to gaming I still come across posts or negative reviews that complain that game x doesn't run well or at all on their steam deck which afaik uses valves version of linux.

I think coders get excited about the possibilities but for the average user a OS is just something that's supposed to work and not get in their way while doing what they want to do.


Since openAI I'm also skeptical of open source projects staying open source once they get really successful.

WHAT ????

Most people on computers are permanent end users with no actual computer skills whatsoever.

Many computer users are lazy and in the if it ain't broke don't fix it mode. (Full disclosure, I fit here.)

I would guess that this makes up 90 or so % of computer users. As linux is on less than 4% of computers your target for persuadable windows /mac OS users is less than 6%.