Who is the biggest personality in gaming?

[Ganoncrotch]

Chazore said:

ganoncrotch said:

Strange that only 3 votes for Lord Gaben, considering that Valve/Steam pretty much revolutionized PC gaming and made a platform so successful and inviting it's actually made gaming on the PC so much easier and cheap that it is a great deterrent from piracy just having such a platform in place to track all of your games and to handle patches and updates for you, as well as the ability to have games download for you before release and ready to play as soon as launch minute passes.

Praise be to Gaben

I would have voted for Gaben but I found Miyo to be the most memorable guy who did something for gaming a long time back when they just got back from the brink of collapse, though Gaben also happened to aid with PC gaming back when MS left it on the line to dry. These days though him and Valve are more or less a private company that act as a middleman client that sells games, their Steam machines push is them going for a totally different crowd and the Steam gamepad being iffy along with no sign of HL3, TF3, L4D3, Portal 3 being nowhere in sight, I just find Miyo doing that bit more with Zelda that's enough to interest and push things forward for the franchise a bit more, maybe veen inspire some other devs but on Valve's side I'm not really feeling the same kind of vibes.

At the end of the day I would give props to Gaben for what he's done and still do, they definitely pushed a lot harder than MS ever did for PC (the end result I mean).

That said I definitely do love how Steam has changed things for the platform and how it helps kill some piracy in the process (especially if we go by Gabe's speech some years ago on the piracy issues) while also bringing some innovations of their own to the table (while also taking a note or two from Origin while Uplay takes notes from no one =P).

I'm not sure what his speech was regarding Piracy I just mean from a simple... you want to play a game on the PC, look to a torrent of it, getting a crack, potentially ending up with malware on your system, the game wont be able to update without extra work, you wont recieve patches/updates which could cause memory leaks crashing, you miss out on online play a lot of the time.... or you open up steam, buy the game for €2-3 euros in a sale... sorted.

Steam fights piracy by being so good to the paying customer imo, when you have stuff like Origin with Sim City trying to absolutely make the paying customer jump through hoops with always online drm then you push people towards downloading a pirated version which has the drm features removed, it should never be harder for the paying customer to enjoy the product than a pirate imo.