Its true that bitcoin is nowadays used as an investment more than as a currency.But still we could not deny that it is still being used as currency also despite its higher fee.People have found it as a safest means to send even huge amounts to even abroad without consent of any government.So,they are ready to pay such fee when they find it still low when comparable to other means of payment.

More over,segwit was activated to solve this issue and it was solved a little bit but did not give desired results due to greediness of some miners who sent spam transactions and mined empty blocks.Still,if lightning network gets activated,then this issue would be sorted out.

Valve's age going to end.
Before many gamers forgive to valve all thier sins because he waiting half life 3, but for last couple of month comunity begin to understand what valve doing money and nothing more. This time it will not come down to them just like this

They should start accepting other cryptocurrencies. I mean i get it BTC is the one and all,  but seriously buying cheap  games is not practical anymore with BTC. Wasnt for a long time now.

@SyGambler
I am genuinely sorry you lost a payment method.
I think we can all see where Valve is coming from though.

People.. 8 years !

We knew this was coming.
And that other guy said use another coin ?
Really ? You think any other coin is going to scale well ?
..and was launched fairly etc ?

I am only interested in being realistic.
The bottom line is the vast majority of people in crypto happily fork over their picture ID to insecure hacked exchanges all in the name of collecting FIAT profits.. off anything that is paying.
While towing the crypto-company line "Free Market" + "No Laws" + No regulations + No Taxes etc.
Hmm i wonder why ?  

Meanwhile 8 years later that looming scalability issue grows like a cancer out of control.
To the point now that merchants are dropping it.
This is seriously bad news !

I want people to care.. and the rest to GTFO.
Crypto does not need profiteers.. it NEEDS supporters.
The type of people that would implement a fix in order to solve scalability issues for example.
While at the same time having faith with it and not worrying about how much they are worth RIGHT NOW.
You all claim to have faith and chant one day but you are full of shit.
ALL of your behavior centers around quick fast cash profits ASAP while the going is good.
Few if any in crypto actually back up their mouth and live the bullshit fake ideology they spew.

Lightning Network the answer ? i don't know, that is up to you all to decide.
I do know you either have to fix this thing or it's going down and hard.
It's sort of like word a massive meteor is going to hit Earth and everyone arguing about what to do.. until it's too late.

I don't see the price right now meaning anything.
I don't care what Bitcoins are worth.. it's irrelevant.
If anything it goes to show that the scaling issues known since day one are very real.

It should concern you all that BTC keeps rising as it gets more and more fucked up.
Why ? little morons hoping to make Altcoin chump change and sketchy money players from the stock markets rolled in.
It has sweet fuck all to do with it being used as a currency.
And if it is not used as a currency then it is not one.

What this silly high price nonsense is going to do is damage Bitcoin.
They flood in for the bubble then dump and run later.. like what happened in crypto in 2013.
That is not a productive series of events.
That would be counterproductive and set Bitcoin back.. leaving the wake of damage for the supporters to deal with.

I'm asking you all to care.
About how it works.. not the fucking price of it  
All i hear is noobs chanting it's great.. because.. it's worth 437456565 amount of dollars.
Who gives a shit ? What does that have to do with it ?

All i can say is if you want to support Bitcoin then do it.. don't fake it.
Quit worrying about the price of it and get it fixed and move forward.

How much motivation is the majority going to have in fixing BTC if it goes up a few grand every hour ?

NONE.

Valve is going to end because they removed a payment method? 

First, valve never promised their users that there will actually be a Half-Life3. All the Half-Life3 being released posts/articles are rumors.
Second, "what valve doing money and nothing more". Of course they would. Valve is a corporation; Why do most corporations and businesses exist? To make money of course! Also, how is Valve removing a payment method = only doing it for money? That doesn't make any sense.

Lastly, I don't see why you're blaming Valve on this. Transaction fees and transaction times have been too high since months ago; until we come up for a solution I don't see how bitcoin reaches mass adoption as a payment system instead of an "investment".

This has been something ive been thinking about earlyer.
Bitcoin isn't the right currency for these small purchases, not only does 90% of the people not know how much they will actually be paying for the game before actually copy pasting the amount in their currency converter, there are allot of more viable coins for this.

Wondering if they might pick it up again

This is the official Altcoin mantra.
Until *THAT* coin has the same level of usage transactions as Bitcoin does.
I distinctly recall hearing the resident ETH shills scammer puppets here bragging about how well Ethereum scales.
I LOL .

Altcoins steal the block-chain concept.. about18,000 times so far.
And the concept is broken.  

Don't get me started on "ledgers" either or i will piss myself laughing  

The sheer volume of stupidity on this forum is astounding.
It has turned out to be the siren call across the world for every pajeet to come runnin' in clutching real money.
Fed into the predator machine so they can be groomed and indoctrinated into the crypto cult.
And fed the crypto-cliche retort playbook to pad their post counts here with.

I'd like to setup a graph showing how much each stupid ass dipshit investard retort has been played year after year.
While 8 years later nothing changes except the rate at which new shitcoin scams are launched.
AND ..the rate at which Bitcoin continues to rot with scalability & fee's issues.

I think the symptom of this story here is illustrating to businesses like Valve inc. that this is actually a new age digital pyramid scheme variant. They got out because it's scammy bullshit.

A failed broken currency that keeps rising in huge dramatic ways is not a good thing to be involved in.
They recognize it doesn't work as intended and it's certainly a bubble waiting to pop.
People did not come to crypto to use Bitcoin.. they came to profit off of it.

..start another ICO investards that will solve everything !