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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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      1210 months ago

      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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          410 months ago

          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.

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              610 months ago

              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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                  110 months ago

                  Not necessary, no but it adds value to it’s users and thus making their platform the most popular.

                  Like Epic’s launcher is the perfect comparison for this: It has the bare minimum features available to sell games and people hate it for it’s lack of features. It’s not necessary for Epic to add those features but clearly people value those in their choice of platform.

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                    110 months ago

                    Which they shouldn’t have the option of

                    It’s like saying Amazon and Walmart are better than a local shop because they offer more/are cheaper

                    They shouldn’t be allowed to compete at that size