As Gabe said, piracy is a service problem, if MS buys Valve and turns it into shit, we can still always go back to torrenting all that shit and be as happy as always. They are stealing all our data, so only fair we steal some of theirs.
Community MetaSteam | May 2024 - Wake up samurai, we gonna get this Persian kitty home
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I feel you. Most of the games industry is owned by terrible companies. Focusing on indie games and ignoring game news from time to time helps me a lot to keep enjoying it.
Whenever a company acquires another public company they usually end up paying a premium for the shares. Activision Blizzard had a market cap of over 50 billion dollars when Microsoft announced the acquisition at the price of 68 billion dollars. It was a good acquisition because they managed to get the company when it's value had fallen... at it's peak ATVI was worth 80 billion dollars.
As to whether the company was worth that much qualitatively, I think the answer is still yes. Gamers hate Bobby Kotick for a variety of reasons, many of which are very silly, but he is objectively the best performing CEO this industry has ever seen. He bought Activision in the early 90s and sold it in 2023. It was his life's work and in that time he took the company from next to nothing all the way to 70 billion dollars. According to an article on GI.biz he gave his shareholders an 8000% return on investment in the last 2 decades. His acquisition of Blizzard and King were inspired choices. I don't know if you remember the pre-2004 era where gaming was mostly looked upon as a 'hobby for nerds' sort of thing. World of Warcraft was the first game to break through to find a mainstream audience. And then the Wii came along and blew the market wide open. Activision recognized this and also the fact that Blizzard used to (and still does) print money and bought them. Then came the King acquisition which instantly made them one of the biggest players in the mobile gaming market, which, in case anyone doesn't know, is the biggest and fastest growing market in this industry. And then there's the fact that Kotick shepherded Call of Duty into one of the biggest entertainment franchises the world has ever seen. Best selling game of the year for 15 years in a row (aside from the 2 Rockstar years) is an insane achievement. People online love to hate COD but it makes billions every year because they have kept their audience consistently happy for so long. People also get angry that they buried IPs like Crash Bandicoot or whatever and put the studios 'into the Call of Duty mines' but this is why they did it, because it makes so much money. It was the correct choice.
Anyway, that 80 billion dollar valuation was the height of the pandemic. Then things started going wrong for them with all the bad PR coming out of their subsidiaries and the various government investigations and lawsuits. That's when their stock price went down and their market cap dropped and Microsoft was able to buy them at a 'discount'. It's possible Kotick didn't want to deal with all the legal problems and stuff or maybe after 35 years he decided he had enough and sold the company.
But yeah, COD, King and Blizzard make it absolutely worth the price.
If this news is real, I wonder how they come up with the 16 billion dollar number for Valve. They wouldn't just pick it out of a hat.
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"As our first actions, anime is banned and adult content is banned, but we suppose that is redundant, so just no anime
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Oh never mind this all started from a random tweet from a randomer and era are willing it into existence lmao
panic over
panic over
PLEASE buy Valve, its not fair PC players get all the good stuff
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"As our first actions, anime is banned and adult content is banned, but we suppose that is redundant, so just no anime
stop making microsoft look good...
But there are so many smaller good and great indies that are also never released on torrent sites.
Well that won't happen in my lifetime, Im sure.
MS exiting console hardware will happen before Steam goes to shit, I think.
"Hey guys, I heard you like AI so we put AI in Steam! It will purchase games for you that you won't even need to play!"
Why not play the Italian Souls demo instead of the usual anti-steam fearmongering?
Are you implying that our right hands are AI? Many often mine just pushes the purchase button itself.
If only R* would hurry up with that damn RDR PC announcement so I can wait a year to get it 9n Steam XD
Microsoft buys Valve
1 day later Steam becomes green and the Xbox logo is plastered all over the client
3 days later Steam is integrated with Windows app store and all of a sudden things start breaking apart. Sometimes the client doesn't launch at all. You need to visit Microsoft help support to understand what is happening.
5 days later Steam features start disappearing. Stats no longer show instead you get links to subscribe to Gamepass Ultimate. The activity feed is full of Xbox achievements.
10 days later AI takes over Steam and advertisements pop up all over the place. The AI will recommend what games you should play and sometimes forces you to play them even if you launch other games. You now see Doritos and Mountain dew adverts before you launch every game.
15 days later playing multiplayer games on Steam will now cost you 15$ per month. You can reduce this price by using Bing every day of the month.
30 days later Microsoft shuts down Counter Strike as it is competitively hurting Call of Duty.
At this point the transition is fully complete. Steam users complain and protest as much as they can but they become memes as everyone can see the boycott Steam group is not serious.
In the end this thread changes the title to PCgamingMeta and the Epic Game Store thread suddenly sees a surge of positive posts.
1 day later Steam becomes green and the Xbox logo is plastered all over the client
3 days later Steam is integrated with Windows app store and all of a sudden things start breaking apart. Sometimes the client doesn't launch at all. You need to visit Microsoft help support to understand what is happening.
5 days later Steam features start disappearing. Stats no longer show instead you get links to subscribe to Gamepass Ultimate. The activity feed is full of Xbox achievements.
10 days later AI takes over Steam and advertisements pop up all over the place. The AI will recommend what games you should play and sometimes forces you to play them even if you launch other games. You now see Doritos and Mountain dew adverts before you launch every game.
15 days later playing multiplayer games on Steam will now cost you 15$ per month. You can reduce this price by using Bing every day of the month.
30 days later Microsoft shuts down Counter Strike as it is competitively hurting Call of Duty.
At this point the transition is fully complete. Steam users complain and protest as much as they can but they become memes as everyone can see the boycott Steam group is not serious.
In the end this thread changes the title to PCgamingMeta and the Epic Game Store thread suddenly sees a surge of positive posts.
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Atlus about to release the 5th entry in a series at full price so they finally realized its a good idea to discount the 3rd entry (that is a 20 year old PS2 game) down to what it is supposed to be priced at.
Logic prevails huh.
At times like this I really do wish flash deals were still a thing. There are thousands of games on Steam that need to be discounted a further 25-50% during the sales.
Logic prevails huh.
At times like this I really do wish flash deals were still a thing. There are thousands of games on Steam that need to be discounted a further 25-50% during the sales.
The end isnt nigh because Vanillaware hasnt officially announced ports for their stuff to PC so since their CEO etc hasnt died or anything I think we're fine for awhile
Bro, where the hell is the RDR1 PC announcement, GOW Ragnarock PC announcement, PlayStation Showcase announcement? I'm getting impatient here lol
Lmao we got Ghost of Tsushima's release and Kingdom Hearts' announcement in the last week alone. Chill.
But also where's TLoU Part II...
I don't really see Sony being able to put together a good showcase anytime soon. They already did a blowout for Death Stranding 2 earlier in the year. And the next big 1st party game from them is probably Wolverine. I think its too early for that. There were rumors of Tsushima 2 so I guess that would make for a good showing. I don't think they have much releasing in the next 12 months outside of DS2.
So the show will mostly have to be 3rd party games. Something new from Resident Evil or maybe they show off Kingdom Hearts 4.
Snake Eater remake gameplay would be nice too.
Maybe they spend 10 minutes talking about PS5Pro to fill up the time but that will be kinda of lame.
But yea I don't see them putting on a show that is better than Xbox, Ubi and Summer Game Fest. All of those shows are gonna be loaded.
So the show will mostly have to be 3rd party games. Something new from Resident Evil or maybe they show off Kingdom Hearts 4.
Snake Eater remake gameplay would be nice too.
Maybe they spend 10 minutes talking about PS5Pro to fill up the time but that will be kinda of lame.
But yea I don't see them putting on a show that is better than Xbox, Ubi and Summer Game Fest. All of those shows are gonna be loaded.
enjoy Nippon
I saw Castle in the Sky in theaters today, I liked it. some people did giggle when they said "La Puta",
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Bandai has region locked all the Naruto games from what I recall so people in Japan can't play those. They can play all the One Piece games though I think,Wait, Japan never had those games on Steam before?
When is MC gonna embed X links?
Does MC even embed mastodon links? Now that is a must!When is MC gonna embed X links?
It's strange that the country where anime is from don't have the anime games
No, years. Remember GFWL, UWP, the initial Xbox One release, RROD, Kinect, introducing paid online gaming, their constant mismanagement of their 1st party studios etc. It's a blessing that Xbox never became market leader.
I'd be down if it played through my backlog for me.
i'll take an AI program that makes it look like my entire Steam library is installed, I keep a bunch installed just for the sake of it but I only have so much space
it doesn't even need to actually download anything since it's not like i'm ever gonna launch them anyways, I just want the illusion
it doesn't even need to actually download anything since it's not like i'm ever gonna launch them anyways, I just want the illusion
I have a solution for this. The year in review thing appears in the second week of December and tracking for the next year obviously doesn't start until January. So just hold on to all your cards until the yearly review is out so it won't mess up any of your stats and then idle everything in the 2 weeks you have before tracking starts again.
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If they do and well, I might actually try out Sin and few others..
Is this show still on-going? That's a name I hadn't seen in quite a while
I loved Strange Horticulture! It's a mix of cozy and creepy that just worked for me. I'll definitely grab this as soon as it's available.
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