If you’re going to try and compete with something like Steam, you need to actually compete.
Most launchers are storefronts at best and nothing else. Often the buying experience isn’t even good.
I would like to see Steam broken up so it is just as a storefront as well
Monopolies
As the comment section points out; it’s impossible to compete with steam because they have so many adjacent perks
And all software should only ever do one thing, otherwise it’s bloat
While I liked it, the lack of controller support made me switch to Playnite back in my Windows gaming days.
Playnite is awesome. One of the few pieces of software I really miss having on the Linux side of things.
Once you have it set up, you truly have everything gaming in one launcher. Non-steam-VR platforms, emulators, etc.
And I liked the UI a lot better than Galaxy, too, but that’s more subjective.
Have they fixed integrations? A few years ago, all integrations consistently were breaking one by one,which made the usage very frustrating
It’s weird how ruthlessly it tears down battle.net for its interface, but doesn’t even mention it for steam
I like steam’s UI. Only thing that I wish it was better is steam forum’s UI. I wish it was more like lemmy, where you can better see who answered you. Other stores don’t even have forums, except maybe for GoG, I’m not sure about that one.
I generally agree with you but watch this video, it’ll show what steam could look like
EA App is not even a little bit better than Origin. Offline mode straight up doesn’t work in the EA App, which has been reported so many times and ignored. You can’t move your installation to another drive like you could with Origin. You can’t gift games or DLC to your friends in the EA App like you could in Origin. EA apps sucks so much that when I recently purchased Mass Effect Legendary Edition for the ridiculous deal of 90% off (on Steam), and then remembered I would have to use the EA App to play it, I immediately refunded it. Given a choice, I would happily go back to Origin. I hate the EA App so much. It deserves a negative score.
