Lemdro.id

5 points

10 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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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca

-5 points

10 months ago

More evidence that there is no reason for steam to have these features

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6 points

10 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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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca

-1 points

10 months ago

Other services exist to achieve those things so it’s not necessary for them to do it

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1 point

10 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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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca

1 point

10 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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1 point

10 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.

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