lanodan, 11 days ago

@a1ba Best of this image is that Steam isn't even great, it's just that their actual competition actively sucks, to the point where it's a bit of a wonder they are actually still relevant.

sun, 11 days ago

@lanodan @a1ba Steam client used to be absolutely terrible, even years after it came out. Now it's okay I guess, it's still pretty clunky.

a1ba, 11 days ago

@sun @lanodan it's even worse after they moved everything to web shit

sun, 11 days ago

@a1ba @lanodan I only really remember it after it was a wrapper around Chrome, was there an older version that wasn't? That's disappointing. It feels like it should be a pretty simple native app and just use a webview for game pages.

a1ba, 11 days ago

@sun @lanodan well, it's just Chrome wrapper has been moved from Store/Community pages to Friends list and then to Library, and then the whole app became web.

Sure, there is still some wrapper at it's core called steamwebhelper (I guess?) but it's a piece of crap, like everything web.

lanodan, 11 days ago

@a1ba @sun You can disable the web part (useful because Chrome is quite garbage) but you end up with basically just a list of games.

a1ba, 11 days ago

@lanodan true though.

I'm sure if EGS taken different route, it could've been a real competitor. But right now it's just a place where everybody go for free games and never buy them there, despite lower cuts for developers.

Some people do enjoy Microsoft's Xbox Whatever Thing because of the subscription. Don't really know what to say about it, I just don't trust Microsoft that much, and it seems for a reason lol, considering that they randomly closed newly acquired studios.