Valve has ‘a significant number’ working on Steam’s visibility dilemma but says it won’t gatekeep games made with AI
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
Why cant you leave steam? For our game we were sure to keep subsystems swappable, some players use direct download and direct ip as we enabled both. We still have steam because the vast majority of our player base is found there but we are not beholden.