Warner Brothers' greedy Microtransactions in Shadow of War.

[Chazore]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Chazore said:

Depends, if it's a large ass file like GTA, Witcher 3 or Ark, then yeah I'll keep those backed up as I don't want to spend hours downloading them again. I do this with mods for Fallout, Skyrim, Witcher etc, that use Nexus mod manager. Some mods end up being removed or unsupported, so I definitely save those on another drive.

I don't really see Valve pulling an Activision and getting away with it. EA and Ubisoft I can see doing it, as it's their own games on their own store and they have their fingers in multiple markets.

That just reminded me that companies are free to take thier games off the steam store anytime they like. So if more companies come out with something like U Play, or Origen and take their games off Steam, that could kill it without Valve going bad.

There are games that aren't on Steam anymore that cannot be bought from the marketplace, yet those that owned the game can still download it again from within their library as the files are still held within the database.

I know you're trying to cover any angle to prove what you said beforehand, but it's honestly not all doom and gloom. With EA and Ubisoft?, yes, because those companeis show very little support long term for their games and they charge insanely high. The season pass for BF1 is still £40 despite the waining community, content that still isn't out and certainly isn't going to be around forever. THey want money first, not much else later.

 

The funny thing is, out of all those clients, Valve support the modding community as well as games that aren't sold on the store. When a game is done and dusted on origin, it's gone. EA and Ubisoft also do not support the modding scene either, especially their clients. Out of all those companies, Valve still does more for PC gaming than the others will ever do, because to the others they see no profit in supporting a modding community or keeping older games alive for long, especially when they want you to buy the next BF or Creed game around the corner.