The first couple of years were dogshit but then again so was a lot of things back then. It was the infancy of contents distribution networks, bandwidth was insanely expensive.

For a multi-billion dollar company with a somewhat-dominant market position, I’d say they’re pretty fucking good. They’re to PC gaming what Netflix did to broadcast TV, without the enshitification. Steam made games available globally, when it was a hard and expensive task to get the bloody originals on CD/DVD in many countries, which forced most people into piracy because it was the only way. Because of Steam I stopped pirating games, too. I say it’s fine.

My Steam profile is 22 years old and I’ve been gaming on PC since the early 80s.

Absolutely, if you’re not at the table then you don’t have your say about the menu… because you’re a servant.

I’m over 50 and I sail the high seas. I can afford all the streaming services and even used to pay for them… until the price hikes and now the ads, so fuck them. I also never pay full price for my games.

All that money now goes to paying artists on BandCamp and a few Patreon accounts that make me happy.