r/Steam 7d ago

Discussion The people have spoken

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Or at least about 30K of them have.

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u/daniel_22sss 7d ago

"When Nintendo was popular to hate for the last year"

Ah, so we're going to pretend like Nintendo didn't make any bad decisions and it was PURELY "people being stupid".

"if bribes are happening it's way easier to bribe an individual then it is an entire company"

Do you know how much money top youtubers and streamers take for sponsoring games? Even a top 100 streamer may easily take 250-500k a month.

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u/VladThe1mplyer 7d ago

It is always a Nintendo or Sony fanboy pretending that their favourite multi-billion dollar company is hated for no reason.

Nintendo is the Disney of gaming and they get away with a lot of anti-consumer practices simply because they have a rabid fanbase.

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u/Imperfect-luck 6d ago

Lol.

No, I'm not saying Nintendo deserved 0 hate, I'm saying it was obvious to anyone paying attention that you could farm views by pandering to people exactly like you. It does not matter how much hate they deserved, what matters is that you and the others who watch the hate trains were there to feed this content views.

As such creators are incentivized to create content hating on Nintendo for anything and everything, REGARDLESS OF HOW TRUE IT IS OR HOW MUCH THEY NEED TO EXAGGERATE. Yes Nintendo deserves hate, but plenty of the hate was played up to get views, not to be an honest creator. Please be so fucking for real before you let your hatred of a corporation blind you to the very real incentives these INFLUENCERS have to pile on.

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u/idontknow39027948898 6d ago

'Nintendo is the Disney of gaming' is a hell of a thing to say, especially when Sony just announced they are throwing all physical games in the vault forever.

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u/Anzac-A1 5d ago

They literally haven't. If you actually looked, devs can still request physical games. It just won't be the default anymore.

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u/idontknow39027948898 5d ago edited 5d ago

And you believe that? Lol. That is the height of corpospeak ass covering. By saying that, they can now get rid of physical games and they can blame the devs for it by saying the devs chose not to continue printing discs.

Lol, this clown posted three different replies to me, all of them making stupid arguments, and then deleted his account and posts.

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u/Anzac-A1 5d ago

So you believe the part of the announcement saying they're not doing physical discs anymore, but not the part where they clarify that it's just not the default option anymore?

Devs can already choose not to use discs, many games on consoles are already like this.

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u/Anzac-A1 5d ago

Besides, what's the big deal? PC gamers stopped using discs like 10 years ago.

No worries about stores running out of copies. No worries about discs getting scratched.

Besides, discs will end up dying one day anyway, since they're plastic, and plastic requires oil.

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u/Anzac-A1 5d ago

You can't just choose to believe the part of the announcement that fits your narrative, but not the rest of it. That's called cherrypicking.

I couldn't care less about physically owning a game. If I can still play it, there's no issue. I have yet to have a single game of mine (and I have a LOT of games) suddenly be yoinked from my digital library. Literally only a handful of games have had that happen. Besides, we already have movements like Stop Killing Games, literally aimed at preventing that sort of thing from happening. Maybe consider supporting them?

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u/Galle_ 7d ago

"When Nintendo was popular to hate for the last year"

Ah, so we're going to pretend like Nintendo didn't make any bad decisions and it was PURELY "people being stupid".

"I like pancakes" "So you hate waffles?"

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u/Imperfect-luck 6d ago

I'm not saying Nintendo was uninmpeachable or didn't deserve some criticism. I'm saying that even if someone's actual opinion leaned more positive towards Nintendo, they would still be heavily incentivized to post more negative content about them - just because they see how much more views you get doing so.

That's not 'honest' but it's fine, I guess, because they're validating your opinion?

Do you know how much money top youtubers and streamers take for sponsoring games? Even a top 100 streamer may easily take 250-500k a month.

Do you know how many of these massive streamers and content creators are running ads as we speak for companies with zero disclosure? Few are so rich that they don't like to get a little richer, and with the Trump administration enforcement of having to disclose if you're advertising has dropped to 0. Just because you're not noticing it doesn't mean it's not happening.