Yeah the PC distribution system was very awkward in my opinion for physical PC. It was fine for the US and maybe Europe but I never got the impression it was great elsewhere except Japan and South Korea.

I recall my physical disc for Euro Truck Simulator 2 is...a DVD
But the jewel case for American Truck Simulator had... s a steam code. >:-(

That was one annoying reason I got steam.

Any particular billionaire in mind in your post?

Not in my region either if we're talking about boxed PC games, unless you were happy getting PC games on burnt blank discs with the game title sharpie'd on with very obvious typos, packaged in like those cheap plastic or paper wraps, and if anything, I got like around 5 boxed authentic PC games. But...

(the rest of this post expands on my earlier one)

Your region may have been screwed when it came to acquiring games as does mine, but the PC platform itself was never at any point unviable for anything devs or its users wanted to do with it. Doom never needed Steam to launch, yet it and its sequel Doom II are still beloved games to this day, and to this day Doom source port developers get into all sorts of drama, for a game released in the 90s (see how UZDoom started). Before Skyrim did the Steam-code switcheroo responsible for Steam's rise, the Elder Scrolls series and more so Morrowind and Oblivion were basically a modder's haven, and they still are today. At this point I'm just echoing AB2012's post.

Although I'll add to his post, that Minecraft has started being a thing in 2009, which would eventually go on to be the #1 best-sellin- scratch that, Tetris took its spot now, but still, it is currently #2 best-selling of all time, and even before Mojang's acquisition by Microsoft in 2014, Minecraft was a pretty hot game in its own right. All it took was one guy coding something in Java, and by that point Steam barely had any presence or impact on the platform (it was as far as I remember, no more popular than EA's Origin or Ubisoft's Uplay).

I really don't see how PC itself as a platform wasn't in a favorable position to begin with. Distribution is another story where Steam can take a tiny bit of credit, but not the general well-being of the platform.

Case in point. From then on, a majority of physicals were already either Steam DRM'd or didn't even come with the data on the disc. At this point if you were used to buying discs and found out you still ended up downloading the games, you'd sooner just buy directly through Steam than go to the store, open the game box, realize it's got a Steam key, redeem it on Steam, and... get to the exact same spot you could've been? Yeah. I'm not surprised.

Also this Billionaire McBillionaire would be the one with the yachts, owner of Valve.

I think GOG is doing well enough as it is, i love using GOG and STEAM. I dont think it needs to topple STEAM, but if it applies even a small amount of pressure towards steam, im just hoping that makes steam try to improve more, because i dont want only 1 option.

I will say though, about the moderation on steam, its so bad sometimes. Like i responded to somebody lately saying to stop complaining about there not being achievements in an early access game after they was making a post acting all mad about it, and that person reported me for it, and the mod said i was " baiting an argument " and banned me for it.

Yeah. My position is that it definitely made it easier for people like me to participate "legitimately" haha.

Then again I did get to join here only a few years after making my steam account.
Dang it was so, so much easier to get console stuff, legit and pirated, back then here than PC games. Then again I did know people who kept using like, the same cracked version of word 2000 until like, 2017. If it ain't broke....

Id argue they both have issues, that said GOG as a store has alot to improve, the only thing keeping people from steam is the lack of offline installers and any use of DRM in games which clearly isn't impacting the store meanwhile we get maybe a quarter of new PC releases.

We do get less brand new games on gog, but gog also has old games that are not even on steam, or like lately, steam are only now getting some of them GOG improved old games 2 years later.

Outside of certain games obviously it's not enough to get more people to use it. We miss out on a ton of releases I'm including AA and indie.

As already mentioned: that will never happen.

https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-11-01-aircraft-giant-ditches-dei-efforts-as-survey-underlines-consistent-employee-support

https://cse-net.org/boeing-dei-esg-governance-controversy/

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-puts-another-dei-effort-on-ice-cites-shifting-environment-in-us/

Boeing has had numerous failures and errors since their DEI program, same as many other companies.

And image. Find the guy in that pic I dare you.
And numerous countless other jobs companies etc.
The only bad guy here is you for calling me a liar and names because I dare to make sense in the world that doesnt, instead of talking to me like an adult.

I took the time to file a report on you as well.

Which failures exactly do you think are due to DEI? I think you are just repeating what other people say without evidence.

Sigh. OK. I'll take the bait - and I fucking hate Rockstar.

I counted give or take 73 heads in the image. Wikipedia cites that R* North had 650 workers as of 2019, and more than 200 employees signed a petition demanding the reinstation of 31 fired employees in November 2025. The image was tweeted on 8 March, 2019, with R* North itself saying this was the International Women's Day which existed since the past century if you read the link. You don't celebrate that day with photos of men.

So with all that out of the way, now I can come around to you, Jinini:

OK, and?

woke garbage

Nevermind.

Don't worry, we're both Bad Guys. ;) ESPECIALLY in the UK lol. Hopefully we don't get thrown in jail for posting mean things if we visit Amok. :P Can you even say it's okay to be a white guy without apologizing there?

Interesting that you're supposed to capitalize Black but not white. Curious that. :P