Steam in general:
-massive EULA (End-User-Licence-Agreement) changes YEARS after the game went for sale on Steam (and has been bought) are allowed instead of blocked
-game updates that make the game incompatible with my current OS (looks like you need to update to Windows 11 *hehehe*) are allowed to happen despite Steam knowing what my OS is
-doesn't allow a refund by any update that caused the game to no longer work on my machine or made things significantly worse (like the introduction of FPS drops, crashes, graphical glitches, game bugs that happen frequently), even after already being well over the refund period
-allows game devs to operate for years that only ever keep releasing bugfests that they never fix (no metion, no penality - it's up to the users to warn other users)
-Steam keeps trying to update games instead of allowing a "keep as is" - which would be nice for games that otherwise turn incompatible to the mods I've installed or that I play singleplayer and want that specific version because the new one sucks; likewise I can't decide to keep a specific version next to an updated one to switch over to
-no easy overview for all available DLCs as a table for the ratings (lifetime & recent), but instead: *hover mouse over DLC or click it* *check rating* *proceed to next* - tiresome and annoying (anti user design)
-doesn't enforce single DLC buy as an option but instead allows DLCs to be disabled as individual buy; whenever this is the case the people that do so bundle a good DLC with all their garbage DLCs that no one wants to buy, forcing you to pay more and buy garbage or miss out on the good DLC - an issue that doesn't exist with piracy anymore
-sometimes bugs out upon submitting a review and if going back it's all gone (which is why I now always copy & paste it to a backups text file before creating the review in Steam)
-forums:
- bad formatting options (can't do most things that are possible in other forums but not restricted to plain text either, so it's a mess and even uploading images required trickery)
- also it's frequent that people post in very old threads because Steam sometimes seems to have issues displaying the most recent topics at the 1st page etc.
- since there are no attached responses to a specific post possible it's all just one moving thread in which you have to quote the text you're responding to, creating a bloated mess - and of course you can't adjust the background or font in any way to make things more readable
- the search completely sucks up to the point I fail to look up posts I know I've made in this very forum in the past (like for a common technical issue), for which I then need to use Google with phrases I remember to actually find what I'm looking for because the search is both shit with searching and presentation of results, like I can't even search my user name and specific text I remember; at least selecting a specific forum is possible though