I'm not at all confident in that prediction. Steam's current projections suggest Epic's impact on sales units stabilised last year, with sales expected to recover and surpass pre-Epic figures over the next 5 years. The platform has significant stickiness for millenial gamers, who now have dominating consumer power alongside decade-old Steam libraries.

Regarding indie games, the number of indie titles released roughly doubles every 5 years, meanwhile AAA titles have declined over the long term with the exception of a post-covid release backlog. As for "indie devs can't compete with free games"... at least 20% of the most popular indie games on Steam are freemiums...

Suffice to say, there are many features of the market that point toward the resilience of Steam against loss-leading AAA competitors.

People are bitching about its biases when returning results too. I've not used it myself, but don't find that surprising.

Surely employees in obsolete jobs wouldn’t create frivolous lawsuits. A company shouldn’t retain employees in a department that is no longer a part of their business model. It really sucks for impacted employees, I get that, I really do, but to do otherwise could drag down the employment of everyone else in the company

Eh I have epic on my PC to collect the free games……..but I buy games on steam

The bar isn't very high

I ask it to help me with eBay templates or descriptions for items in my store. Those tasks are tedious and I’ve really enjoyed having ChatGPT around.

Is it just a crappy excuse to force us to upgrade our hardware, considering A LOT has changed over 10+ years? Corporate greed? Both at the same time?

What a garbage take. We absolutely do not need more "oversight" from government, or from shady third party companies. Last I checked, the government does not do well with oversight or accountability, and third party companies follow wherever the almighty dollar takes them.

I'll take a bit of chaos please over that please.

What the hell??? Why??? I understand the original KSP is now over 10 years old and not being updated anymore, but why such demanding system requirements for the sequel?

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Yeap, I have zero issues with ray tracing off. All other settings on high with my 1080.

Yup, I remember being so annoyed with Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam. Waiting to download HL2. The platform was a laggy mess. To their credit, they've come a long way since then, and it seems clear enough to me that other launchers don't have the desire or ability to match even a fraction of Steam's features.

And yet the compact VW Beetle did exist… are you saying the US didn’t make compact cars? They def were being made at the time and were being sold in the US

I think the most poignant and concerning point is that Musk is using one of the most powerful propaganda machines to foster his view to the masses, he got rid of everyone standing in the way, things don’t just happen casually

I maxed out at paying 200 bucks for a used 1070! I did also spend 3k on a fatbike and new frame/fork for my other mtb so I guess shifting priorities. Zwift looks sweet on 1070 though!

Good. Twitter is bad for people and discussion and should be replaced by something better, or we should go back to blogs.

I remember when people bitched an moaned about Steam when HL2 was released. It was evil DRM back then. Ha!

This is hilarious.

More and more modern laptops are all fully integrated now, just like MacBooks.

Surely a business would not lie!

What is Musk's and MbS's endgame? They are the Face and "Silent" Owner of Twitter.

How could a generative ai become sentient?

But that is exactly what I said in my initial post. I feel like we're arguing on the same side lol

Epic games freebies will win in the end. Distributing digital content isn't very expensive, and it undercuts Steam. New indie developers cannot compete with free games. Your time and hard drive space belongs to Epic.

Twas always thus. It was why I only played consoles until Civ V came out and I had to have a PC to play it.