I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

  • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    -672 months ago

    Steam is a platform that happens to also have a storefront.

    I would like to see government intervention to break up Steam to remedy this

    Though arguably Epic is way bigger of a platform since it goes from developer to end user

    • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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      322 months ago

      I’d rather see competitors actually try and be better than steam rather than make steam worse.

      • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        -202 months ago

        How did you get “make steam worse” from that?

        Everything else still exists, just not controlled by Valve

          • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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            -102 months ago

            How? If any feature is necessary then it will be filled by someone else

            You aren’t losing anything

        • @d00ery@lemmy.world
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          102 months ago

          Because each independent section would try to make more money and end up breaking things and adding new shit users don’t want but marketing execs think are good.

          • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            Then find a different workshop/forum/launcher to pair with the Steam store

            In no world is it worse than what we have now

            • @d00ery@lemmy.world
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              22 months ago

              Name an example of a better workshop, I’ve used nexus mods and it’s a complicated mess that requires a subscription to get normal download speeds for content created for free by other people

    • @usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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      142 months ago

      No don’t break up Steam. Standardize DRM and make digital games licenses ownable/transferable. I could see the EU eventually doing this.

      I say this as someone who loves Steam but wants more ownership, in the games I “own”.

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      52 months ago

      They offer keys which allows for third party sellers to exist, and there are a handful of legitimate sites that sell keys for steam.

      • @Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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        22 months ago

        Yeah, but where do you have to go to redeem those keys and then subsequently have to open their program every time you wish to use your purchase (which you don’t own). Steam is very good at promoting itself and locking people into their platform, it’s a constant free advertisement program where they have total control and no competition.

        I understand the “Steam is fine” position, but I also wish we weren’t always turning to this ONE supplier for a goods or service because it always hits the hardest when corruption takes over. Would love for these threads to be filled with multiple conversations of all these great different gaming services everyone personally loves for one reason or another, instead of comparing the crappiness between these few huge mega-corporations.

    • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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      52 months ago

      It’s a launcher successful on the most popular OS in the world that they don’t even own that anyone can come in to compete at. And had decades to do so when “PC gaming was dead” so was wide open for anyone that wanted to try to reach potential customers over fixating on the console demographic. What more do want.

      It doesn’t even come pre-installed with Windows.

    • @d00ery@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      Sounds like a free market proponent.

      Can I give the classic example of US healthcare where for very minor benefits, the absolute richest can afford to have great healthcare whilst everyone else seems to be crippled (financially) by even minor ailments.

      But the industry is worth billions, the line goes ever up, and the shareholders are happy. Just fuck the customer.