Is it? James Harden must find a way to play for the Blazers.

And probably downloaded from random sketchy website ad.

Active players can be much more important than people who spend money, since spenders aren't going to drop money on a game they think is going to die. Whales themselves don't hold up a game if the player base is low, since it's many little guppies dropping their spare change that support the games as a service economy as a collective.

Since Risk of Rain has been coop it would be nice if they were brought on to work on a new coop title, since I'm not always in the mood for pvp and the commitment it can require to stay ahead in order to not get stomped.

When you post a comment it shows up whether it is a new or old account instead of having to meet some karma requirement. Also third party apps are very nice over being pushed to use some bloated ad filled official app.

This shows the power of steam reviews with it being driven by the actual community. People tried to downplay and belittle its effectiveness, but it being front and center on the store page does have more impact than there would be without steam reviews. If there were no steam reviews the PSN requirement would have been pushed through with it being easier to ignore some random internet comments on social media than a store page.

That's why steam reviews are better with it being from actual people who aren't scared of being blacklisted from future access. Even with joke reviews it's still actually more informative. These review outlets call it review bombing, but I call it review awareness with it highlighting and bringing attention to things paid reviewers neglect and ignore.

At the same time it's not like Valve is not making use of the extra money to use it only for taking in profits. It might of been what made it possible to try entering the hardware market with VR and the Steam Deck and putting resources in trying to make Linux gaming for accessible for regular people. Might of been what allowed them to not be deterred after the failure of the Steam machine and Steam Controller.

I don't even trust that they will leave the servers up so people can play online so 40% off is still to high. Even 70%.

Them not bother with Linux says all there is to say about their anti trust cases. Only thing that bothers them about monopolies is that they arent one, and even when there is an opportunity to enter into a market where there is no competitors they don't want to bother investing in it. They don't care about open platforms or investing in it first.

It's why they were late to getting a hold of PC distribution. And in the unlikely event Linux OS takes off be complaining about Steam's presence there.

Having a years old steam account with a clean record then getting flagged as a cheater must suck when you weren't even trying to cheat. Even if Valve plans to reverse it your account potentially not getting reversed would be a tough pill to swallow during the wait. Shitty situation.

It really is quite something seeing people so concerned on behalf Google's revenue streams, and dedicating such passionate advocacy for them.