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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Perhaps, but on the other side of that coin: Because valve doesn't have legal obligations to make money snd increase shareholder value, they put a lot of money elsewhere. The products they create are awesome (literally the best launcher on PC, Tim Sweeney is probably upset because his is ass) and invest heavily in things better for gamers:

  • digital returns were huge when they first rolled out
  • (IMO) spearheading game streaming with steam in home streaming & the steam link
  • creating awesome games and not milking them for perpetual profit (other than maybe in game items but i don't want to have this discussion)
  • investing heavily in alternative ways to play (steam machines, aforementioned steam link, VR/index, steam controller, steam deck)
  • legitimately spending money to make it possible to game on Linux, reducing gamers reliance on Microsoft/Windows
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

legitimately spending money to make it possible to game on Windows

Linux* I assume?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Finally... after all these years... Steam on Windows

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The Epic launcher could actually be so much better if they bothered to put any effort into it. Obviously they're going to have fewer games and stuff but they could still make a decent launcher that isn't so annoying to use and actually has additional features.

Part of the problem they have is that it's actually difficult for game developers to put their games on both platforms so i've got to pick one and obviously i'm going to pick Steam.