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      Monopolies

      As the comment section points out; it’s impossible to compete with steam because they have so many adjacent perks

      And all software should only ever do one thing, otherwise it’s bloat

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          By broken up I’d like to see the community, workshop, chat system, achievements, and marketplace all be separate companies

          That would be better for everyone

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            Why? All those features already exist as separate companies. Discord for chat, Nexus for workshop, like 5000 places run their own marketplace etc.

            How would it be better for everyone if you have to set up 5 separate things? That’s currently the issue with Epic’s launcher that it does nothing other than let you buy games so it doesn’t provide the value Steam does.

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                Oh, you can already do that with Discord with the in-game overlay and anyone else is free to implement stuff like that too. If you mean that there should be a open source alternative for the Steam client then you can check out Lutris, it can be used to launch steam games.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    What evidence? If you prefer alternatives, then those are available

                    It’s clear why people prefer Steam: it has good features. But the other launchers should complete by making better features not forcing Steam to remove features.

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        Except what steam does isn’t considered bloat to a large swath of users.

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        Obviously the unpopular opinion with the neckbeards, but I agree with you. I don’t understand the blind love for Steam. I mean it’s an effective platform I guess, definitely the better one for sure, but they all are pretty unnecessary. Steam definitely is pretty monopolistic. But whatever, everyone also enjoys paying $1200 for video cards from the same two suppliers, that were a quarter of that price not more than 6 or 7 years ago.