Meanwhile I'm over here thinking about how I greatly prefer to put my saves in my own cloud storage (too many games these days not giving me as many slots as I'd like), the community forums are some of the most toxic places on the Internet right now, it's a coin flip whether Steam's going to give me a problem with my DualShock4, I hate how the Workshop is a walled garden, and I'm so much happier with my streaming now that I've dropped Steam Link and moved to Moonlight.

I guess the guides and Big Picture Mode can be nice?

Steam's still the #2 best option for me on PC storefronts; the battle.net launcher has some aggressive advertising, as an example of hellscape we're avoiding here. But Steam continues to not offer me much added value. I go there only because some of my games aren't available on GOG.

I will say I appreciate what Valve is doing with the Steam Deck, and I'm really hoping it continues to grow an ecosystem that directly competes with Nintendo. They are actively burning up banked goodwill right now, and that segment of the market is getting unhealthy without someone keeping them in check.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, the forums really got bad at such at a rapid pace, and I'd love to know what changed to make it that way.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Probably the same reason it's happening all over the corporate web: fewer eyeballs moderating content. I was never enough of a regular on Steam communities to be sure, unlike GameFAQs (which I can tell you has always been that way).

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do agree the community discussions have gone to shit. But that's true of the entire fucking internet. People are assholes when veiled behind anonymity. That's not a Steam issue. It's a human issue.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Sure. There's just degrees of it. Your average Steam community discussion board is far, far worse than the community you're in right now.