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      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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          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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            10 months ago

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

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              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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                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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                  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.