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It's like buying a tiara for your fetus, before you even buy a crib.
ALSO, MICROTRANSACTIONS = DLC.
I would consider selling something like a soundtrack acceptable but no game content dlc, absolutely.
Fuck that bigot
Someone needs to make a new template with that bigot photoshoped out
Who is that? I dunno if I've ever seen the original and don't recognize the person
Stephen Crowder, he's a right winger YouTuber.
It's from a series where he'd set up a table like this at a university with a right-wing opinion on the front and debate students over it.
Space engineers had joined the thread
Also also: can we make it that developers have only one Early Access game at a time. Finish the game before moving on to the next one, or abandon it and release it without the EA label.
YES! That's maybe the most important point I could make, but I forgot to make it.
I wish I had access to Steam - it won't run in my PC, yet it has all these amazing casual games I want to try!! : ( But I would never buy DLC for a game that hadn't been (and might never be) released yet.
Use Calvin and Hobbes template or something like this instead 
Like I said before, I forgot who that dipshit even was, especially since the template for the meme is so incredibly low-resolution. Hilariously, his actual dipshit sign looked so stupid that I thought it was a fake, when I saw it in the image search, when I went to get the blank one.
He's a fucking clown, beyond all description.
Holy shit. I've always seen this thing pretty low res, never looked closely, and thought that was billy eichner doing a bit from his on the street show or something!
For real. Now that I realize who it is, I can't see anything but how punchable his fucking smirking face is.
wonder if steam gets 30% of all that too
Any transaction through steam as far as I understand it.
I can't understand the hate for Steam/Valve taking 30 percent. Back in the day, when people were forced to rely on traditional brick-and-mortar sales models, developers could consider themselves lucky if they got the 30 percent. When publishers, disc/disk manufacturers, box printers, shippers, and retailers finally got done taking all their cuts, it could amount to more than 70 percent. Easily. The lowly creator of the software was an afterthought, in the payment pecking order.
But noooooo, Valve is eeeevil incarnate, because they take 30 fucking percent. Fuck that. 30 percent is reasonable. And what do they do with that money? Does Gaben flaunt his private jet travel and buy sketchy islands, like a some billionaires? Nah. They pump the money back into weird, tech-focused projects. Modern VR would be ENTIRELY under the control of FACEBOOK AND APPLE, if it wasn't for Valve spending their money stash on the SteamVR systems.
I know I sound like a fanboy. It's not even REALLY about any of the stuff I've said, so far. The biggest reason why it's okay for Valve to take 30 percent is to insure that Steam will always exist, and always be thriving, barring a vast and all-encompassing planet-wide economic catastrophe. Nobody has to worry about their Steam library suddenly vanishing. People might be tempted to praise alternative distributors, like Itch.io, because they take only a 10 percent cut. But you only have to look at their website to realize they're incredibly fragile, by comparison. I don't know if Itch.io will still be around in ten years, twenty years, certainly not thirty years. Steam WILL be around in fifty years, when I'm an old, old man. I'd be SHOCKED if it wasn't around a century from now.
That kind of guaranteed future costs money. That is a stone cold fact, whether you like it or not.
EDIT: I just looked it up, and it seems that Gaben does indeed own an island. Pfft. Whatever. I still don't begrudge Valve existing, exactly the way it exists. If Valve hadn't built Steam, we'd be living in a universe where Google/Alphabet handled the lion's share of PC game distribution. Wouldn't THAT be lovely for everyone?
EDIT 2: the article that I found, implying that Gaben owns an island, appears to be satire. LOL.
Just wanna commend you for proving yourself wrong on one of your own facts. Even if it did turn our you were right about him not owning an island.
Thanks.
Stop using this fucking idiot for your memes, there's alternatives if you need them, but this dude objectively sucks.
Who is it?
Stephen Crowder.
I wanted to challenge this but I can't think of a single early access that I have that tried it, I can only think of ARK and they got roasted for it, even more so when people discovered that ATLAS was a reskin of ARK.
I think they're talking about emperyon galactic survival. They never finished the game, but took it out of EA, and now they just sold a story based DLC when the main game doesn't even have its story completed yet...
ARK has a whole ass sequel and the base game is STILL horribly unoptimized AFAIK. To be fair, I’m on linux, but that’s hardly an excuse when like 95% of other titles work just fine!
Don't worry, ARK runs like ass anywhere, it's so intrinsic to the game that the remaster also runs like ass.
While I understand the point this meme is making, I can't wholeheartedly agree with condemning games labeled early access. Basically every modern AAA game comes out buggy, undercooked and unfinished, which means it's in early access. Games not being labeled as such doesn't change the fact that it's not finished. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were trash games, buggy as hell and completely unfinished. For all intents and purposes, they should have been labeled Early Access.
The sad reality is that games being released in "Early Access" is not a detriment to 99.9% of consumers, so it's going to keep happening.
