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I loathe Epic Store but I wish there was better competition to Steam. They definitely offer better cuts for devs but I think they still need to understand what makes Steam popular the way that it is. There's a huge social media aspect, proton, bigger picture with the controller support...
We are in a very delicate situation where Valve can do whatever they want. They can suddenly decide to start making steam worse for users, adding more ads than we already have and we won't be able to do anything, because in the end we don't really own anything we have there.
Edit: many typos lol
gog has always been so anal about linux though, that it kind of feels like a epic games to me. you can't have a platform ran on drm free games, and then when people want to play them on linux (the "drm free" platform), they ignore and alienate them.
I always forget GoG exists lol
What do they offer that steam doesn't? Old games?
Proton really only caters to a very small ~3% of enthusiasts and stands to potentially benefit Valve far more than any individual consumer.
Valve could definitely decide they want to be dicks tomorrow, but they haven't in the last 3 decades, so why start now?
... Because everyone else started now. And so far they all got away with it.
They didn't start now, they started a very long time ago.