Sony Reportedly Made Over $1 Billion Through Sales On Steam [est. $1.2B for Sony, ~$350M for Valve]
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/557771/article/sony-reportedly-made-over-1-billion-through-sales-on-steam/
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rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 78 pts · 288d
And that's why Gabe has a new yacht with a fuckin' submarine.
Goddamn money printer he's got there. No hate, I just can't believe the platform that we had to install to play Counter Strike (1.6?) has become the juggernaut it has.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 288d
God damn did I hate when they introduced that extra fucking bullshit that I had to install just to play CS!
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 288d
Multiplayer gaming peaked at GameSpy.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 288d
Back then Steam was a downgrade.
irish_link@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 287d
I wholeheartedly agree, however we are the users who had to suffer through that so they could create what it is today.
I can’t tell you how many times steam would need an update when I wanted to play CS. Some of those nights I just gave up because the stream update was so freaking slow.
Zoot@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 287d
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 288d
I still have my steam-less 1.6 installer somewhere.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 288d
Bro, does it still work? I can't imagine it will but if so, give the magnet link.
Can we still play it? I'll 1v1 you later today if we can.
With that weird kick on the jump animation and the totally stupid crouch animation.
BigPotato@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 288d
I think the disk I have has 1.5 on it but I'd have to check. I'm pretty sure that one is on Archive though.
aj_jankes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 288d
Been there done that
mad_psymon@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 288d
Still no bloodborne
C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 288d
they still have a lot of stuff on steam i'd purchase if they weren't still trying to get $70 for 5-10 y/o games
dan1101@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 287d
Spiderman Remastered is like $23 right now, but took many years to get that low.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 287d
Even on sale their second-run PC releases are more expensive than what I would normally tolerate for a new full game. Then there is Stellar Blade, which is also infected with Denuvo malware. They could be doing much better.
QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 288d
I'd love to see a breakdown for the split before and after requiring PSN accounts
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social · 22 pts · 288d
Likely almost negligible because most people didn't care, with the exception of the vocal minority on the internet. Most average people make a new social media account a few times a year and wouldn't think twice to trivially make another throwaway account just to play their new game.
artyom@piefed.social · 24 pts · 288d
I bought pretty much all of them after they removed the login requirement.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org · 6 pts · 288d
Wait what? I thought Sony games on
Playstation(Edit: Steam) all require a Playstation account. So this is no longer the case? How long has it been and did I sleep under a rock?artyom@piefed.social · 6 pts · 288d
Been a good while now haha