![]() So why precisely would Steam abandon development of those features at some point in the future, when they are already head, shoulders and torso above everyone else? If they were going to stop development on consumer facing features, shouldn't that have happened by now? It's not like their featureset was lacking previously, and no other store has even attempted any of that, and that stuff is consistently developed further. Developer agnostic Linux support that matches or sometimes outperforms native Windows performance. Local multiplayer emulation through streaming. Support for damn near every major controller available. Steam has a laundry list of features that no other storefront has ever attempted. Honestly, im willing to be that if steam does not have a true competitor in the next 5-10ish years, a lot of the user friendly policies that drove consumers to steam will be replaced with a denuvo style drm instead. What if steam goes out of business and we lose all out games? Matter fact, what stopping Good old games from becoming that main competitor to steam? Didnt they start selling games around the same time? Why is gog just reserved for smaller indie titles or games from the 90's? Anyone else feel this way? It sucks even more because the games on gog are drm free too. Half of the games on my steam library arent even on gog. I feel like there is a huge opportunity for gog to provide much needed competition to steam as a storefront, but it just. ![]() Steam has the current borderline monopoly on the pc game market and while I am grateful that the people that founded valve are actual people who play video games themselves and have a lot of user friendly policies because of that( imagine if games for windows live took off instead) I really dont think that monopolies of any kind can lead to something good.
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