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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

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                    110 months ago

                    The reason why Amazon is bad is because they undercut their competition to drive them out of business just to then raise prices and create a monopoly. What is happening with Steam and other launchers is the other ones are refusing to compete on features and instead are trying to create monopolies with exclusive games so people would be forced to use an inferior product.

                    Creating a limitation that X features aren’t allowed to exist on a gaming client would solve no issues here as Steam isn’t even trying to create a monopoly, they just have the best product currently and everyone is free to out compete them.