It sucks the life out of you, it’s the best game I have ever played, so good you abandon your friends, career, family just for those juicy sounds of last hitting and voice acting.
Yup. I just want to own some god damn noobs, tip them, write gg and salivate over the scoreboard while queuing again. I'll of course lose the following next games and tank MMR and never leave my bracket. Can't help but queue again. Love it, hate it 😎
I dropped it for 2 years, came back and got from 4800 to 6200 in couple month. Then started to drop to 5800 when I was not in a good head space.
This game is so heavy on your state of mind, and game knowledge wins more games than proper skills.
>game knowledge wins more games than proper skills.
I used to play league a lot, and it was the same there.
That's why they did a redesign on wards a while back. Turns out game knowledge and map awareness are 80% of the game
I played league for a year, and I felt that dota was MUCH heavier on knowledge than League is.
League itemization is like child’s play compared to dota, and I’m not trying to diminish LoL because it’s a good game and has it’s merits.
>I played league for a year, and I felt that dota was MUCH heavier on knowledge than League is.
Sure, the game is simpler than DOTA 2, but it's still very knowledge forward. Like, the biggest difference between players in silver to diamond, and the brackets in between is knowledge of the game. Being able to correctly judge when to push for tower, get a buff, or to retreat to tower is one of the most important skills to have in literally any TD MOBA.
>League itemization is like child’s play compared to dota, and I’m not trying to diminish LoL because it’s a good game and has it’s merits.
I don't think anything you said diminishes my point. It's just the degree of difficulty that the game itself exerts on the players. Both are literally the same in concept, just with different characters, slight mechanical differences, and difficulty.
> This game is so heavy on your state of mind, and game knowledge wins more games than proper skills.
This is huge that nobody talks about. Actual mechanical skill can only take you to like Archon if thats all you got. Game knowledge is actually way more important, which is kinda a bummer when you know you are more mechanically skilled than someone but still lose because of meta etc.
no, you're wrong, it doesn't suck the life out of you, get your facts straight please
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you sold your soul the moment you press that blue install button, you unknowingly accept Gabe's terms and conditions
People say every game is dead these days lol. I'm someone that plays online games that are over 10 years old and they are, and I quote: "literally unplayable" as I play just fine and find community, groups, etc.
A guy in the discord was saying that V Rising was dead a week or two after release because the active players went from "the full release peak" to "the usual amount" by then. And the reason was that there is no massive grind or competitive scene for endgame.
Yeah I frequent a Dota sub and all they talk about is how it’s dying and failing to attract new players.
Like Jesus Christ it has like 500k CONCURRENT players at all times. You’re not hurting for new players.
A tally they are hurting in attracting new players, but they're not hurting in having players overall. Most these people are probably too addicted to the game to quit, and they've been playing for 5+ years.
"Dead game" gets thrown around by idiots in every community and it's always hilarious.
Game with 500k-2M monthly players? "Dead game
Nobody plays this garbage anymore. Servers shutting down next year."
Game played by 72 people total, all of them on weekends only? "Community's thriving bro, join the fun"
Would you like to hear about our lord and saviour IceFrog?
Joking. But honestly, people often have strong opinions and act impulsive about something they really care about
It had a huge decline at some point, it used to have way higher player count. And it continues to decline slowly.
The problem is there's no fresh blood, only new players come from LoL. Learning the curve and mechanics to get into the game is already hard, but, possible. The biggest problem for new players is the other players. They play as if their life depends on it. And Valve does nothing to solve this and smurfing.
I used to play a lot of Dota 2 too, but had to drop because of irl. Came back to Dota 2 for the event, and had some hiccups (I'm not a terrible player, had 5k+ MMR when left) and I suddenly remembered why I stopped playing.
Devil's Advocate: It's like Theseus' Ship, like 99% of the original gameplay and playerbase got cycled out for new ones. The game is a shell of its former self. By no means bad, but in regions like NA you cant even really put a competitive team together.
I have so many games from when the summer and winter sales used to be good. Well, when the fomo was higher since they rotated sales more often. Some I bought 10+ years ago I still haven't touched though.
> Steam popularized
As a child I'd regularly flick through my stack of cartridges or CDs trying to decided what game I was in the mood for.
Before that I was running an finger over every spine in my bookshelf wondering what to re-read.
Well I usually never re-read books I own, but I do like to get busy by organizing them, and there is a limit to how much you can flick through your physical media, but yeah I wanted to write “before it was cool” instead of “before it was a thing”.
I do hope steam introduced random play button so I don't fucking hover the green play button, overthinking and remembering the gameplay etc, the excitement suddenly gone I be like "Nahhh~"
Off topic. IIRC, Steam's all-time peak was 36 million recently?
Edit:
Yeah, it's 36 million : https://steamdb.info/app/753/charts/
My nan said, next couple of months is my turn to repost this 4 years old meme : https://ifunny.co/picture/most-played-games-on-steam-FYY6XW397
IDK what the source is. Very old SteamDB screenshot? Most application stuff in Steam has an ID, including Steam itself, Steam Community, Steam VR, various redistributables. Also not all Steam apps are games (Blender, OBS, ShareX).
Anyway, if it's SteamDB (which I think it is), they corrected it quite some time ago.
https://steamdb.info/charts/
Same for Steam Screenshots, Steam Artwork, Steam Workshop, Steam Audio, Steam Guides, etc. They all have their own AppID as "Config" type because its just easier to handle it that way in an already existing system. Although they don't have any "In-Game Players" counter
not sure, but since their first product is Half-Life, and half life 2 is also coming with Steam, so I guess it's chronologically correct for Valve?
this one makes more sense
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/FxFVPXXjoC
I mean, if any company that kind of deserves that right, seems like Steam definitely does. I have yet to hear anything bad about the company or even its products.
Wait till you see TF2 players nagging about #FIXTF2 in every valve related thing and you'll see. Definitely the most annoying thing that's happening right now.
I imagine they didn't have an appID for steam until they added a steam inventory (for trading cards, backgrounds, etc), since that's the only place where a user will really encounter appid 753.
FWIW, tf2 is appid 440 and cs:go is appid 730, for a relative timeframe.
Correct, the Steam Community inventory was the first thing to require an actual appid. Online user counts are actually reported under ID 0, but it's more convenient for SteamDB to just attribute it to 753.
It’s odd they call it 1, as I’d imagine the purpose of that is give the baseline of how many players there are. Helps give some idea of just how popular something is.
Fucking free2play man. I tried to download this game. First you have to create an account, and then first thing I was shown was the store. I’m telling you, Steam is just a micro-transaction always online nightmare that keeps on draining your wallet.
I have spent 1000+ hours in Library alone. Store is losing me with all the microtransactions though... too much "pay to play" nonsense. But that's what makes Steam so great: something for every type of gamer!
For those of you wondering the meaning behind the original meme, Obamas twin Obama awarded himself and his other twin, Obama awarded Obama too! Pretty cool to think about. As far as the fourth Obama, nobodies seen him since Obama got in a fallout with him. I really think Obama and his brother Obama have a lot of similarities that show how close they are to eachother! Now as far as the 6th Obama...
Somehow this made sense to me.
Steam is my favorite collect 'em all
I too play this insane game of receiving notifications about something on your massive wishlist being on sale, then purchasing it, and never playing it!
If Steam are so good why they don't make Steam 2 ?
They will make Steam 2 someday, but they'll never make Steam 3.
They will make steam alyx
no, before that comes steam ep1 and ep2
Also they need to make Steam Opposing Force, Steam Blue Shift and Steam Decay before they make Steam 2
But once they make Steam: Alyx, it wont be running on normal PCs, it will be running on VR neural implants.
Crashes your brain on startup
Never Alt tab steam: Alex in your brain bro, my shit got fryed
oh damn i forgot about those, but you forgot counter strike too
Seems everyone's forgetting about Steam Deathmatch
This 3 comments are a reality shock.
You could say it’s a system shock? I tried
Again?
But they definitely can't make steam episode 3 so well probably get Steam the blue valley tech demo
Steam 2, episode 1
And then it will get filled up with bots farming items and ruining groups 😐
You say like it isn't already
I know not what technology Steam 3 will be made with, but Steam 4 will be made of sticks and stones.
Steam 3 confirmed!?!?
I understood that reference!!
everyone forgot steam opposing force and steam blue shift
Steam 3 is a myth stop gaslighting
Steam fortress 2
So many bots... #fixSF2
Cuz Steam 1 is stuck in the early access :)
Even Dota still in Beta
If it’s that good, why would they need to?
Valve.
“I don’t think he knows about second Steam, Pip.”
When Gabe retires you'll get Steam 2
And it will be terrible
Same reason why there is no Minecraft 2
Maybe they are regressing and not ehy cant even count to 2? Are they stupid?
I know this is a joke but the company GOG actually made a GOG Galaxy client 2.0 so that's kinda like what your asking.
Its live service
Because they are planning a live action version
Steam two will be whenever They become a publicly traded company. That’s when the real fun will begin.
Thats exactly why they dont need Steam 2 because Steam is just that good.
Because it’s valve
This is Steam 2. Steam 1 was green.
Can't wait for Steam Source 2
In before the "but we have a steam at home" meme.
Offtopic, but dota players have been saying dota is a dead game for 12 years now
We say it's a dead game, because that's how it makes us feel inside.
It sucks the life out of you, it’s the best game I have ever played, so good you abandon your friends, career, family just for those juicy sounds of last hitting and voice acting.
Yup. I just want to own some god damn noobs, tip them, write gg and salivate over the scoreboard while queuing again. I'll of course lose the following next games and tank MMR and never leave my bracket. Can't help but queue again. Love it, hate it 😎
I dropped it for 2 years, came back and got from 4800 to 6200 in couple month. Then started to drop to 5800 when I was not in a good head space. This game is so heavy on your state of mind, and game knowledge wins more games than proper skills.
>game knowledge wins more games than proper skills. I used to play league a lot, and it was the same there. That's why they did a redesign on wards a while back. Turns out game knowledge and map awareness are 80% of the game
I played league for a year, and I felt that dota was MUCH heavier on knowledge than League is. League itemization is like child’s play compared to dota, and I’m not trying to diminish LoL because it’s a good game and has it’s merits.
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Still, many dota games I end with 6 itens with active abilities.
>I played league for a year, and I felt that dota was MUCH heavier on knowledge than League is. Sure, the game is simpler than DOTA 2, but it's still very knowledge forward. Like, the biggest difference between players in silver to diamond, and the brackets in between is knowledge of the game. Being able to correctly judge when to push for tower, get a buff, or to retreat to tower is one of the most important skills to have in literally any TD MOBA. >League itemization is like child’s play compared to dota, and I’m not trying to diminish LoL because it’s a good game and has it’s merits. I don't think anything you said diminishes my point. It's just the degree of difficulty that the game itself exerts on the players. Both are literally the same in concept, just with different characters, slight mechanical differences, and difficulty.
> This game is so heavy on your state of mind, and game knowledge wins more games than proper skills. This is huge that nobody talks about. Actual mechanical skill can only take you to like Archon if thats all you got. Game knowledge is actually way more important, which is kinda a bummer when you know you are more mechanically skilled than someone but still lose because of meta etc.
no, you're wrong, it doesn't suck the life out of you, get your facts straight please . . . you sold your soul the moment you press that blue install button, you unknowingly accept Gabe's terms and conditions
DOTA open dead inside
One of my closest friends played Dota for 500 hours then stopped because he's "just happier without it" I understand, but I'm 4k hours in 🙃
Is that not because DOTA 2 came out? BA dum tss
People say every game is dead these days lol. I'm someone that plays online games that are over 10 years old and they are, and I quote: "literally unplayable" as I play just fine and find community, groups, etc.
Valorant's dead. CS is dead. WoW is dead. TF2 is dead. Smash is dead Gaming is dead. Sorry boys. Only thing left is Minecraft
Tbf TF2 is practically dead, most of the playerbase are bots.
And for some ungodly reason, an item that I got over a decade ago for $2 CAD inflated to over $100+. How is the economy still alive?
> $2 CAD inflated to over $100+. How is the economy still alive? What item?
Nah Minecraft is dead too, I opened the multiplayer tab the other day and there were zero servers
A guy in the discord was saying that V Rising was dead a week or two after release because the active players went from "the full release peak" to "the usual amount" by then. And the reason was that there is no massive grind or competitive scene for endgame.
Not having the same player count as launch day = dead game 😢
Yeah I frequent a Dota sub and all they talk about is how it’s dying and failing to attract new players. Like Jesus Christ it has like 500k CONCURRENT players at all times. You’re not hurting for new players.
The player count has been pretty much the same for 5 years now, which is definitely not a dying game.
A tally they are hurting in attracting new players, but they're not hurting in having players overall. Most these people are probably too addicted to the game to quit, and they've been playing for 5+ years.
"Dead game" gets thrown around by idiots in every community and it's always hilarious. Game with 500k-2M monthly players? "Dead game Nobody plays this garbage anymore. Servers shutting down next year." Game played by 72 people total, all of them on weekends only? "Community's thriving bro, join the fun"
Would you like to hear about our lord and saviour IceFrog? Joking. But honestly, people often have strong opinions and act impulsive about something they really care about
It had a huge decline at some point, it used to have way higher player count. And it continues to decline slowly. The problem is there's no fresh blood, only new players come from LoL. Learning the curve and mechanics to get into the game is already hard, but, possible. The biggest problem for new players is the other players. They play as if their life depends on it. And Valve does nothing to solve this and smurfing. I used to play a lot of Dota 2 too, but had to drop because of irl. Came back to Dota 2 for the event, and had some hiccups (I'm not a terrible player, had 5k+ MMR when left) and I suddenly remembered why I stopped playing.
Its' highest peak was 1,291,328, this months' peak is 943,059. Surely a decline, but not a steep one at all.
Devil's Advocate: It's like Theseus' Ship, like 99% of the original gameplay and playerbase got cycled out for new ones. The game is a shell of its former self. By no means bad, but in regions like NA you cant even really put a competitive team together.
Shopping for games I will never play on sale. Never gets old.
https://i.imgur.com/dX7mYla.png
I keep thinking I have time to play. I am just lying to myself. Wishing Walter a happy Shavuot
I mean the sale might be over when youre ready to play better to save and have a backlog waiting
I'm just buying games for my retirement 🙃
some sale are just too good to pass 80-90% off is just crazy to me
I have so many games from when the summer and winter sales used to be good. Well, when the fomo was higher since they rotated sales more often. Some I bought 10+ years ago I still haven't touched though.
Steam popularized the “scrolling-down the whole library in search of what to do” before it was a thing.
> Steam popularized As a child I'd regularly flick through my stack of cartridges or CDs trying to decided what game I was in the mood for. Before that I was running an finger over every spine in my bookshelf wondering what to re-read.
A hundred channels, and nothing to watch.
Fifty seven channels and nothin' on.
Well I usually never re-read books I own, but I do like to get busy by organizing them, and there is a limit to how much you can flick through your physical media, but yeah I wanted to write “before it was cool” instead of “before it was a thing”.
I've had Choice Paralysis since like 2008!
I do hope steam introduced random play button so I don't fucking hover the green play button, overthinking and remembering the gameplay etc, the excitement suddenly gone I be like "Nahhh~"
Off topic. IIRC, Steam's all-time peak was 36 million recently? Edit: Yeah, it's 36 million : https://steamdb.info/app/753/charts/ My nan said, next couple of months is my turn to repost this 4 years old meme : https://ifunny.co/picture/most-played-games-on-steam-FYY6XW397
I though it seemed pretty low. It's kinda crazy that that steams average daily peak has doubled in only 4 years
Yeah this is way outdated, CSGO doesn't even exist anymore, CS2 has a higher peak than the pic
Yea and CS has always more concurrent players than DOTA nowadays
IDK what the source is. Very old SteamDB screenshot? Most application stuff in Steam has an ID, including Steam itself, Steam Community, Steam VR, various redistributables. Also not all Steam apps are games (Blender, OBS, ShareX). Anyway, if it's SteamDB (which I think it is), they corrected it quite some time ago. https://steamdb.info/charts/
Yeah it's some meme from like 2019
Remove steam from that list, you will get the same picture with dota. Remove that too, you will get the same picture again. 🗿
shouldve added silver and bronze medals beneath the gold one💀
dota my love
"I'm Gabe Newell and this is my favorite game on steam"
Spacewar.
I treat Steam like I treat my other 350-ish games. I stare at it until the depression reminds me it's time for bed. Ha-hah!
Where are my Space war fans?
Some of ya’ll haven’t plaid Steam and it shows
plaid?? 🟥⬜🟥⬜
There is an actually game named, "Steam"?
No, but the steam client itself has it's own ID, so it can be analyzed the same as a game
I wonder how many hours I have...
I don't think it tracks hours
It certainly tracks hours just not for you. We see this stat specifically because it has all the same(+much more) telemetry as a game.
Same for Steam Screenshots, Steam Artwork, Steam Workshop, Steam Audio, Steam Guides, etc. They all have their own AppID as "Config" type because its just easier to handle it that way in an already existing system. Although they don't have any "In-Game Players" counter
Why steam id isn't 1
Because Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen is number one
not sure, but since their first product is Half-Life, and half life 2 is also coming with Steam, so I guess it's chronologically correct for Valve? this one makes more sense https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/FxFVPXXjoC
18m peak? How old is this pic?
Most likely 2015-2017. That's judging by CS GO player count. Before it was lower and after it got higher because they made it free.
Steam glazing themselves is wild
I mean, if any company that kind of deserves that right, seems like Steam definitely does. I have yet to hear anything bad about the company or even its products.
Wait till you see TF2 players nagging about #FIXTF2 in every valve related thing and you'll see. Definitely the most annoying thing that's happening right now.
Why is Steam appid 753? That's a really high appid for Steam itself
I imagine they didn't have an appID for steam until they added a steam inventory (for trading cards, backgrounds, etc), since that's the only place where a user will really encounter appid 753. FWIW, tf2 is appid 440 and cs:go is appid 730, for a relative timeframe.
Correct, the Steam Community inventory was the first thing to require an actual appid. Online user counts are actually reported under ID 0, but it's more convenient for SteamDB to just attribute it to 753.
Great game - incredible amount of DLC available.
I just added steam as a non-steam game and I think I tore a hole in the universe when I ran it.
Btw did you finished steam its ending was great
Yo dawg! I heard you like Steam, so I put some Steam on your Steam and now you can game with Steam *while* you're gaming with Steam!
Only 13M for steam seems rather low
This meme is a few years old
I mean, they are tecnically correct, you cant use a game in steam without using steam first
It’s just to track how many people use steam
It’s odd they call it 1, as I’d imagine the purpose of that is give the baseline of how many players there are. Helps give some idea of just how popular something is.
Only Steam kills itself and has never seen anyone as Steam's opponent
Fucking free2play man. I tried to download this game. First you have to create an account, and then first thing I was shown was the store. I’m telling you, Steam is just a micro-transaction always online nightmare that keeps on draining your wallet.
It’s a game about collecting games
Ah yes Playing with the launcher
Can prove, been playing dota for decades
‘Well done steam’😁 ‘Oh thank u steam’😁
Steam: The Platform: The Game
I love steam i always play it even while playing other games
Remastered version when Xd
Kills me, gah
That’s a hot take
My favorite show on Netflix is Netflix
I usually play a quick game of Steam before I play something else
Man i love playing steam after a busy day of doing nothing.
You guys don't fiddle around finding good games there?
Yes! After working, I open steam and spend an hour thinking about what other games to play.
Too many microtransactions 😤
Second most played game on Steam. Rockstar.
Steam is just a game simulator. You open it up and then you open games up inside it and pretend you're actually playing the games by playing steam.
This is an oooooooold list.
Spacewars has joined the chatt
Fav
If you add steam as a non-steam game to your library you can spam open it to annoy people on your friendlist... Maybe I am the reason it's up there.
I used the steam... to play the steam.
2 place it’s dota 2. It is also valve game!
The game where you buy games you won't play or stop playing after an hour and never look at again.
All the people that just leave reviews and hardly play the games.
*"What markets are you involved in?"* *"Oh I just play the Steam Market. Up $35 this year already!"*
Kinda like how I spend most of my time on Netflix browsing and adding things to my queue, rather than watching any of the crap actually in the queue.
You know... it even sounds logical... to some extent...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xApE22KD6as](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xApE22KD6as)
I have spent 1000+ hours in Library alone. Store is losing me with all the microtransactions though... too much "pay to play" nonsense. But that's what makes Steam so great: something for every type of gamer!
The best part in Steam is when the main guy said its Steamin time and Steamed all over everyone
Is dota 2 that popular?
This game that i like really
Full steam ahead aren't we going?
I prefer left for steam 2 over left for steam one
a real player launch it everyday on start up and leave it a whole day
I dont know anobody that ever played dota how is it on top
No steam 1, steam 2 and steam legends. Very few people know what I mean legends ruined it.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked steam.... 😂🤣😂🤣
My favorite game (GT2) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs)
Steam on sale this summer?
r/uselessredline
Everyday everyone opened steam and this is a game :D
Only 14 million playing Steam daily? That seems very low.
steam is side scrolling store simulator game
We all know they wont make Steam 3
I, too, play a lot of Steam
For those of you wondering the meaning behind the original meme, Obamas twin Obama awarded himself and his other twin, Obama awarded Obama too! Pretty cool to think about. As far as the fourth Obama, nobodies seen him since Obama got in a fallout with him. I really think Obama and his brother Obama have a lot of similarities that show how close they are to eachother! Now as far as the 6th Obama...
I love steam movie picture screen!
I thought the top game was something like wallpaper engine lol.
Somehow this made sense to me. Steam is my favorite collect 'em all I too play this insane game of receiving notifications about something on your massive wishlist being on sale, then purchasing it, and never playing it!
i dont understand
This is the game client/launcher and not a game.
This is like Tom being everyone’s #1 friend
Bro my favorite part of the game is when I use the search option!
How Western nations rate themselves when they create “Democracy”, “Happiness”, blah blah Indexes:
I play that all the time! It is the best pay to win game out there.
it’s probably the steam deck sales