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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because then they would plug and play with whatever service you use

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, you can already do that with Discord with the in-game overlay and anyone else is free to implement stuff like that too. If you mean that there should be a open source alternative for the Steam client then you can check out Lutris, it can be used to launch steam games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More evidence that there is no reason for steam to have these features

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What evidence? If you prefer alternatives, then those are available

It's clear why people prefer Steam: it has good features. But the other launchers should complete by making better features not forcing Steam to remove features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other services exist to achieve those things so it’s not necessary for them to do it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not necessary, no but it adds value to it's users and thus making their platform the most popular.

Like Epic's launcher is the perfect comparison for this: It has the bare minimum features available to sell games and people hate it for it's lack of features. It's not necessary for Epic to add those features but clearly people value those in their choice of platform.