Steam is a ticking time bomb
Steam is a ticking time bomb
The 'enshittification' of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.
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My primary complaint with Steam is the quality of the games.
I've had a Steam account now for... let's see here... 19 years:
Being primarily a console gamer, I rarely used it until I bought a Steam Deck. Then I went looking for Steam exclusive games I couldn't otherwise play on my Xbox Series X, PS5, Nintendo Switch...
What I found was a lot of garbage porn games, and a lot of garbage anime games, and a lot of garbage anime porn games.
It's super difficult finding something worth while to play. So it's not a surprise to me to see that the #1 game is eight years old:
You’re essentially complaining that of the 50k+ games on Steam, you can’t find a game you like, and you prefer being handheld and told what you like by console companies?
This is… a really weird argument. “Too much freedom, restrict me harder daddy Nintendo.”
I'm looking for Steam exclusive games that I either can't or haven't already played on other hardware. Not an easy task.
Why would a consumer value exclusivity on an open platform? Is this a tribalism thing? In vs. out group?
Steam has PC games that I can't ordinarily play as I don't have a PC.
you shouldn't draw conclusions from outliers
The recent 1.6 update for Stardew Valley is likely the reason for this spike in players, with the patch bringing an enormous amount of new content to the game.