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I'm surprised that they're not migrating customer games to the Xbox store considering Bethesda is a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Microsoft has been happy-ish to have their games on Steam for a while now. They probably would've gone all-in on the Xbox store if the windows store (backend) wasn't so shitty.
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Players have spoken and a LOT of them prefer Steam.
Players should be saying they don't want "launchers" at all. They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.
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Players have spoken and a LOT of them prefer Steam.
Players should be saying they don't want "launchers" at all. They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.
Downloading games off Steam is easier than pirating them. If that's not progress, I don't know what is. Definitely not the same with movies and music which tells me they don't want it to be that easy.
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Players have spoken and a LOT of them prefer Steam.
Players should be saying they don't want "launchers" at all. They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.
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Players should be saying they don't want "launchers" at all. They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.
People always forget what a pain in ass it was to download patches before Steam existed.
You can theoretically solve a lot of problems with crappy, multitudinous game stores - easier payments, lighter software. But the real question is: do I trust that I'll be able to continue downloading my purchases for the foreseeable future? I trust that Steam will be around for a very long time. I can download DRM-free installers from GOG. Everyone else? I don't know, I have much less confidence.
I expect we're less than five years away from seeing everyone's Stadia purchases evaporate.
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Players have spoken and a LOT of them prefer Steam.
Players should be saying they don't want "launchers" at all. They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.
This is like the famous Dropbox comment
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"
I'm surprised that they're not migrating customer games to the Xbox store considering Bethesda is a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Microsoft has been happy-ish to have their games on Steam for a while now. They probably would've gone all-in on the Xbox store if the windows store (backend) wasn't so shitty.
I don't work at Microsoft, but if I had to guess there are several teams working on individual components and they lack a clear leader that enforce a global vision so it falls apart at integration time.
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Microsoft has been happy-ish to have their games on Steam for a while now. They probably would've gone all-in on the Xbox store if the windows store (backend) wasn't so shitty.
Windows store is really bad. The UI, the UX, the lag, the jank, all designed to spoil your day