The darkside of Steam sales.

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Akiran said:

biglittlesps said:

Steam is heaven for Indies and but hell (hurting by changing the mentality of the most consumers to buy the game at sale which is bad) for AAA and AA games which has big budgets/development time and giving problems to Game Consoles which is keeping the industry alive with their R and D and First party studios but Steam is doing nothing other than helping indies for Downloadable content in PC but hurting retailers, AAA/AA developers, publishers, Console makers and gamers who wants AA/AAA games.

I'd agree that Steam is heaven for indies, but it's also hell because if they're not on Steam not as many people will buy their games

Yep, the steam success is mostly depend on tricking the users to buy games at cheap regardless of whether they really want that game or not just get that game beacuse its so cheap which is bad thing for gaming, because cosumers spending money on games that really dont play( increasing their backlog), they are paying money to the developers(these developers make quick buck even though they did not deserve the money as the consumer not sure whether they like the game) even if they dont like/love their game and doing just for the sake of cheap price instead of paying full price for the developer who deserve because they love/like it.

Also every PC gamer think that they are paying less money for same game with better graphics which is availble on Consoles(hurting consoles and the gamers who purchase them), but in reality PC doesn't produce many AAA experiences like Consoles and hassle free gaming without manual control of patches/drivers installs/config for computer noobs which is keeping a segment of gamers away from the gaming and doesn't create jobs. 

Steam is good and there for indie/F2P developers and Valve to earn money but its not moving the gaming industry.

Consoles are there for moving the industry with innovation in hardware, software, technologies, gaming and create jobs for many people around the world(retailers, distributers, publishers etc.,).