Nefyedardu

joined 2 years ago
[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

People love things that benefit them as consumers and hate things that don't, end of

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Pretty obviously trying to pull an "Apex Legends" to try and save the flailing Overwatch 2.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Also remember that Steam takes a 30% cut

20-30% cut, which is in-line with most digital storefronts.

which is totally unnecessary

Companies exist to make money. Making money will never be "unnecessary" for a company. And hosting secure data centers around the world delivering 15 Tbps a day is not exactly cheap.

and is what directly caused giants like Ubisoft and Rockstar to make their own storefronts.

Also remember that Ubisoft and Rockstar (and Microsoft and Blizzard) came crawling back to Steam all the same, meaning they thought they would make more money even with the 20-30% tax. So a 20-30% tax must seem pretty fair to these companies for what they are getting.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Competition is good, even if the other launchers are a bit annoying.

What does "competition" between companies really mean? It means they are competing for customers. Annoying me with shitty launchers is the opposite of competing. Make things cheaper, offer better services and more features. This is competition. Steam (and GOG) is the only one actually "competing" here. And look what happened? Microsoft, Ubisoft, Blizzard... one by one they fall to Steam because they simply cannot comprehend this fact.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Not even close, that would probably be Amazon or Microsoft. Unless you are talking about companies that only do Linux software. How many major companies like that are there, like three? Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE?

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's good, was thinking of self-hosting it anyway since the public instances were really hit-or-miss for me.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

It's not really the same design philosophy as iOS and Android since those actually have the equivalent of desktop icons, which function like a taskbar app launcher. So even they have a way of launching apps without a secondary menu.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

As a gaming OS it works great, I'm just talking about what they need to do if they want it to be a successful desktop OS. Their plans are to release it as such so I hope they put in the necessary effort before that, because it's severely lacking right now.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Through Windows Store? Do people use that? When I used Windows I always just searched the internet for installers

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I don't see how it would improve privacy at all. WSL is just for running Linux shell on Windows right? Your entire OS stack is still Microsoft's proprietary software.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This is hilarious, and OF COURSE they didn't get it....

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's a lose-lose. Keep support up, someone using Steam could get hacked and have their life ruined with no one but Valve to blame. Get rid of support, suffer the wrath of 100s of people on these old OSs who can't just move to Linux for some reason. I know which one I would choose.

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