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The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam (www.pcgamer.com)

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[+] [email protected] -24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Steam obsessed people always cry about the lack of "features" in other stores, as if a game store + launcher needs features other than being able to buy and launch games.

Hell, I don't even want to launch games. Just let me buy and download an exe (oh yeah, GoG does that, which is why I use GoG whenever I can...)

Sucks for devs that people just won't buy their game if it isn't on Steam though :/ Idk how to change peoples' behaviour, unless Steam does something egregiously bad to users

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

One of those features is Proton. Thanks to Steam I can play every game I am interested in, without the need to install Windows.

GoG sometimes pushes out Linux installers that they immediately stop supporting, resulting in non-working games. Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Steam was around for long enough, with it's array of features, that I have grown accustomed to having them. Even when it first launched, Steam was more than just a store and library. It had Friends and, while not yet integrated into the app itself, they also provided the User Forums for every single individual game.

Even as just a store and ignoring all the other periphery features, it has more features for actually finding things than any other digital market for buying games. Not to mention sales, user reviews, and more.

Steam is widely regarded as the best option because they do things in the interest of their customers, instead of shareholders with a stake in the company.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The problem here is you think other stores actually let you buy and launch games reliably.