cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/30531009
This is your reminder to use better alternatives like:
Alternatives that is not opensource:
I trust Gabe. I just don’t trust whoever takes over after him.
Hopefully Gabe sets up a trust to oversee the future benevolent development of PC gaming
I trust him to have a good plan in place for when he’s gone honestly.
Reminder that the 30% steam tax is absolutely greed. Gabe is a libertarian and charges it because he can get away with it. It makes games worse by affecting the equation measuring what is profitable to make. Gabe doesn’t care about that, and that should be taken into account when considering if you actually trust him.
State your reasoning. Because I’ve seen many developers defending the 30% steam tax.
Considering that they offer full online support without the dev need to host it themselfs, for only 100, the server costs come from somewhere
A lot of people won’t like the answer but no private individual should ever trust a corporate entity. They aren’t held to the same standards a regular person is so we can only hope that in a bad situation, the company will do the right thing. When there’s a difference between right morally, right for the customer and right for the bottom line is the time to start sweating and hoping.
When it comes to archiving piracy is the answer anyways since the average person is not going to be backing up all their games and creating redundant back ups of it.
It’s not ideal, but it’s okay for now. Shit will get real when Gabe passes away though.
The biggest criticism is you dont own what you buy.
Some older games gave an old school game code to unlock the game. So some I own, but many no, and that sucks
Thats what I like about what OP linked. But those platforms dont really incorporate all that steam does well. Making it easy to link up with friends is important. Though I have found myself using Playnite instead of Steam to browse and launch my games.
I don’t give a shit about that half as much as their promotion of microtransactions, not to mention unwillingness to regulate third party launchers, invasive DRM, third party accounts, etc.
Damn straight up shit I hate and didn’t think about. Fuck yeah fuck that shit. Third party launchers and accounts should never be allowed. It fucks with the experience.
I feel like enforcing those would actually lead to them being labeled more of a monopoly.
I’ve no idea how you make that connection…
Each of those could be seen as anti competitive moves. Just because you want and like the idea, doesn’t mean they would be seen as universally good by all.
Would you like to explain how it’s anti-competitive, or just continue making a bunch of nonsense statements?
In the future we’ll all own everything.
As far as companies go I trust valve.
Valve has been the least shit player in the game distribution ecosystem for decades. Maybe they could lower their cut but the push for Linux compatibility is worth any premium they want to charge.
It’s funny, because as much as people here hate corporations and monopolies, they would seemingly kill their own mother if it meant Steam would be the only seller of PC games.
EDIT: As demonstrated by these angry downvote reactions…
It’s not that hard to understand when even apps determine whether someone wants to use social media like reddit or lemmy despite the content being the same.
