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Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can never be replaced, former Epic dev says: "I don't think this is fixable" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's all hypothetical though because there is no alternative the matches steam's features. If there were i have no doubt people would use it, i mean most people tolerate uplay and ea origin and all that, and they are also much worse than steam.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    They tolerate those because they open when someone runs their game through Steam. How many people purchase through those platforms though? And what does that have to do with what I’m saying?

    In a hypothetical situation where someone develops a service better than Steam, why is it entitlement to think people should use that better service? In the article I read (the one in the post we’re on), the guy that used to work at Epic says that people wouldn’t use the better service because they are enamored with Steam. I think they wouldn’t because they’re likely very invested in Steam already. The comment I responded to is talking about shitting on Linux and other things that are not in the article, they appear to be responding to the company that the guy in the article no longer works at and the guy that owns the company that, again, the person in the articles does not work at. Why respond to those things here and not in a post about those things?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    They tolerate those because they open when someone runs their game through Steam. How many people purchase through those platforms though?

    I don't think that's true. When they open when a game runs through Steam, that's when they are especially annoying and not tolerated. But there's plenty of people just buying Assassin's Creed on Uplay or Fifa or Need for Speed or whatever on Origin (maybe ea wasn't a good example in current times).

    And what does that have to do with what I’m saying?

    Well you claimed this would not happen. I'm saying that, if these shit ass tier stores can manage to have a userbase, I'm sure a better store with features comparable with Steam would get a bigger userbase.

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