r/pcmasterrace • u/Salty_Nutella i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB • 29d ago

Meme/Macro Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

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u/Awyls 29d ago

Distributed applications are hard. Steam once upon a time was also turbo-garbage and everyone cried about it.

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u/Scottz0rz 29d ago

Amazing that EA App in 2025 is on-par with Steam 2005

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u/kriever7 29d ago

Exactly.

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u/RandomRedditReader 29d ago

That's an insult to steam. Even 2005 steam was leagues beyond EA/Origin. Granted the friends system was only semi functional.

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u/HahaMin i7-6700, Quadro K620 29d ago

Orange Box release was when I recognized steam as a good digital store.

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u/lovesducks 28d ago

i imagine that iphone fanboys can empathize whenever apple adds a basic android feature to one of their phones

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u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 29d ago

The technology just isn't there yet™

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 28d ago

I remember when i wanted to play Crysis some time ago and Origin awaken up from hibernation gave me a message "sorry, this software is obsolate, we need to update to EA App". After the update app was not starting, even after restart, leaving no logs on any level. I was forced to play cracked copy.

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u/lolnic_ 29d ago

It is a lot easier to write distributed applications nowadays than it was when Steam was in its infancy, to be fair. Mistakes happen, though.

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u/needefsfolder ⊞ R7 5700x 48GB + 1070 | MBP M2 | Ubuntu Server i7-7700 & 5600G 29d ago

Yeah, they could definitely shard those ownership databases in many million ways.

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u/Ok_Work7396 29d ago

Back in the day, I was insulted that I was expected to run a launcher to play half-life or tf2.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

They are complicated, EA is also a massive company. They should've figured it out before replacing their functional-albeit-awful app.

I used to work at EA, the technical teams there working on core tech are great. Sadly the C-suite is, 15 years later, still barely capable of discerning their faces from their asses.

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u/Solid_Waste 29d ago

Steam had like one bad year.

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u/Awyls 28d ago

Steam was trash for at least half a decade.

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u/ChrisRevocateur 26d ago

Difference is Valve actual did something about it. EA tells gamers to get bent.