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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 106 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (35 children)

Competition sounds great, so long as it has all of the following:

  • Something better than steam input and the steam controller.
  • Something better than steam vr.
  • Something better than steam workshop.
  • something better than proton
  • Something better than steams friends/chat/activity interface.
  • Something better than the steam overlay.
  • Something better than big picture.
  • Absolutely no exclusives, and no deals forcing developers to use it.
  • A nicer store interface than valve, with better community pages, curator pages, discussion pages, etc.
  • An equivalent to steam fest with a strong demo scene.
  • Something better than remote play together

This is of course also ignoring just how efficient, clean, customisable and ergonomic the steam interface is compared to all competition

Oh wait! That doesn't exist. All we need is some way to guarantee valve doesn't become public.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

All of the following? Why would you need to be better in every way? There's a perfectly valid use case for trade offs. Eg, let's say some competitor had exclusives, no VR, the store interface was a little worse, and it was only roughly comparable on many other points. If it's simply faster and more lightweight, that's its competitive advantage. Or if it focuses on being open source and DRM free like GoG, that's a competitive advantage.

Expecting something to be better in every way (than something with a massive head start) or else it might as well not exist? That's just unreasonable. I don't require a clothing store to be better than Walmart to shop there. I mean, the clothing store doesn't even sell fruit! Why would anyone shop there when you can go to the Walmart and buy some grapes with your jeans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If It's not better in every way why would I swap? I'll just keep using steam. The only selling point you could use to get me to swap is the promise of feature parity with steam and open source. I would support that even if it hurt a lot along the way, but I doubt it will happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Don't let perfection be the enemy of good

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