steam is trying to be discord and discord is trying to be steam

[Verification]

'pretty decent api'

and then we remember steamspy.
steamspy was an amazing tool for players and developers alike. It hurt all the shovel ware, asset flips, and overall stuffty games. Some developers who have made some pretty successful games even claim that they were only able to get their game off the ground because of steamspy.

So what does Steam do? Stops doing any quality control and made every single profile have games private by default. The first thing is there to support all the stuffty games that inevitably get bought and this helps increase their personal cash flow. Then the second thing took away the very information steamspy needed to run. Because they don't care about how successful a good game can be, they just want games to sell at all, and why would they waste their own server resources making sure the quality ones are the ones bringing in money?


They don't even have a basic loving testing checklist for games. Executables can just not even exist and the game can ship without even being able to run. It can be loaded with viruses, mining bots, and even spyware. "Hey look a fun new popular meme game" whoops you got ratted, thanks steam.

Steam used to be great. But it's rolling downhill. These are not just surface issues. These are real legitimate issues that hurt the platform as a whole. And I will gladly jump ship even if it means using several different launchers.

I'll only just ship if I get to transfer my games over to discord. It just isn't happening if I cant get 100+ games to discord without issue

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[Shift Kitty]

I'll only just ship if I get to transfer my games over to discord. It just isn't happening if I cant get 100+ games to discord without issue

Well that's not going to happen of course, which was the issue of DRM in the first place.
Of course, when I say jump ship, I mean only with my wallet. I'll still keep steam for playing the games I've already purchased, because throwing away 259 things over a problem that doesn't affect those 259 things is just stupid.
I'll just be buying games elsewhere whenever possible.

[IkeTheGeneric]

Any excuse to stop using steam is an excuse good for me, forget steam and forget valve.

[hootaloo]

It's even worse in VR.
Whenever I try to play Beat Saber, steam starts a completely useless process called 'steamtours' and it just constantly uses up 30+% CPU. It's not even important for the game and ending the process does not cause any problems.

also when the buttons just dont work in the vrhome thing

[Shift Kitty]

also when the buttons just dont work in the vrhome thing

And another new problem. When steam loses connection, the friends list sets itself as the active window. In most VR games this isn't an issue, but if Overload isn't in focus, the game pauses, considering it uses mouse and keyboard (or controller) rather than the VR controllers.

[Adrenaline]

stop using discord

[Renderman In A Bowl]

I don't see why this is a bad thing.

[News]

remember when valve was renowned as one of the best gaming companies

[hootaloo]

why is no one talking about the free games you get as a turbo user tho i just now noticed
theres no list yet i hope theyre not just games i got in a humblebundle 4 years ago