I sincerely doubt that even if another launcher did everything Steam does, it would rival it. People already use Steam.

At that point, you can start grabbing business from steam via promotions and such. You don’t need to rival or outgrow Steam to break into the market, you just need a bit of the market.

And that’s assuming they get to this point, ignoring that Steam had decades to get there. It used to be ass.

It’s not even that other launchers have less features than Steam. It’s just that other than GoG, which has a very limited catalog and no regional pricing, there is not a single store that is not actively anti-consumer to a hilarious extent.

Non-drm steam games can actually just be copied around like you would copy the installer

Epic can’t break into the market because of their own shitty launcher, not because of anything Steam has done to lock down the competition.

Now imagine how hard it’d be for a smaller player.

Not very hard, if they were willing to create a decent launcher and engage in sustainable business practices (and regional pricing).

That’s pretty insignificant on a planetary scale, earth loses atmo at TEN TIMES that rate 😄

I think the dispute is in how literally somebody is reading your statement

Jeez, how does a sim game like this take over a decade in dev?

But then we’ll never get a new record for ‘number of dumb questions asked before somebody got shot’

In addition to what the other person said, it’s not American. It’s pretty universal college / university numbering

I’m trying, but the US keeps doing stuff that affects me.

Taliban: Don’t worry, we’ll make sure our women’s rights are maintained

Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value

You say that as if publicly traded firms do

The human version

Spam, links to OP’s store

Let’s face it, most teens would take those odds.

The emoji here is being used in a personal comment attached to the post, it’s not part of a document or article.

Wanna know why LLMs like emoji so much? Because they’ve been in common use for the past 3 decades!

The unfortunate alternative is public opinion and human emotions, manipulated by large corpos, so it’s not a great choice.

Issue was fixed several months ago, but yeah it was a problem for quite a while

They released actual data in line with the NHTSA regulations. If the data is falsified that’d be illegal. Do you have a reason to think otherwise?

https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting

Another button gets you a taxi ride with driver for $25, but there’s a slightly higher chance that a random person in your city dies. Which button do you prefer?