Steam and valve has revolutionized the gaming industry in software, Linux gaming, hardware, VR, and distribution. This is a crazy opinion to have
I don't see how those are incompatible with the stuff author complains about.
I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years
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#12It's a bit strange to me to read these complaints about Steam/Valve, then have the author... switch to Microsoft Store and advocate for Game Pass?
Yea.... He goes on about how you dont own the game on steam because valve can... patch it so that it doesnt work.
But then says well lets play a game on gamepass. I mean I guess that DOES solve the "patch it so that the game no longer works" problem. Just dont own anything.
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#13> I buy games from Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat.
Absolutely unhinged opinion.
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#14Steam is still the only platform I'm using regularly, and IMHO it does everything right. I'm planning to try to put an app on it and have high hopes for it, but I'm still trying to find a gaming-related angle that makes them accept it. I believe to understand the reasons why Steam avoids ordinary apps, but at the same time have a hard time figuring out how the existing non-game content like tools and general productivity apps made it on the platform. Officially, they're not supported. Do the publishers have some personal connection to Steam employees? Or do they brand them as game-content creation related?
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#15> I buy games from Epic Games Store , Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat. Absolutely unhinged opinion.
Yeah, I have a bunch of free games on the Epic store, because they were giving them out. I still buy them on Steam because the Epic launcher is just so awful.
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#16> I buy games from Epic Games Store , Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat. Absolutely unhinged opinion.
Epic game store is like 99% crypto trash. Microsoft store is pretty terrible and I cant imagine microsoft cares about this "problem" more then Valve does.
GOG is pretty great.
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#17> I buy games from Epic Games Store , Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat. Absolutely unhinged opinion.
Some communities would brutally murder him for this opinion.
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#18You can publish games on Steam without DRM, and without using any Steam features.
The only people to blame are the developers, not Valve.
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#19It's a bit strange to me to read these complaints about Steam/Valve, then have the author... switch to Microsoft Store and advocate for Game Pass?
Yea.... He goes on about how you dont own the game on steam because valve can... patch it so that it doesnt work. But then says well lets play a game on gamepass. I mean I guess that DOES solve the "patch it so that the game no longer works" problem. Just dont own anything.
The point is that when using a subscription service to access a game, like Microsoft's gamepass, you explicitly know that what you're paying for is temporary access to a game. Where as when you buy a game on many of these store fronts it doesn't seem like like you are only buying temporary access, but it is in fact what you are getting just with possibly a slightly longer timeframe.
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#20> I buy games from Epic Games Store , Microsoft Store and GOG precisely because those stores have no bloated features unrelated to DRM crammed down your throat. Absolutely unhinged opinion.
Could you explain why? I haven't used any of them so to me it just sounds like you're stating your own very strong opinion.
The article mentions things like input APIs, so I kind of understand where the author is coming from. As someone who doesn't play a lot of games, it sounds like a very valid opinion to me.