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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] echo64 40 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Steam sucked, really bad. For 8 years, maybe? Maybe more? It takes time to build something, but consumers demand everything immediately.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I wish I had a use for that.

[–] JimmyMcGill 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean steam sucked for 8 years like 20 years ago. Technology wasn’t the same as it is. They revolutionized the pc gaming scene and I’d argue that even that Steam version was better than the current EGS version. Was it uglier? Yea maybe but it did the job. You could install, manage and launch your games, cloud saves and it wasn’t bloat or spyware. The Steam just kept getting better even if with a messy ui in some places. They do a ton of shit that generates them no direct profit but that makes using Steam a no brainer. And gamers respect and value that even if not all of them.

Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.

[–] Rose -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.

Steam has been offering third-party titles since 2005 but still had no shopping cart as of 2008.

[–] JimmyMcGill 1 points 11 months ago

So 3 years? How long did that take epic? About the same time almost 2 decades later?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Origin is still bad and so is whatever Ubisoft's launcher is called.

edit: for the record I didn't say that steam was the best launcher, but I have found the launchers for world of warships and warthunder to be serviceable

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Origin is now the "EA App" and Uplay is now "Ubisoft Connect"

They can't even keep consistent branding.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

they change the names because they suck

[–] Lime66 4 points 11 months ago

Ea app is origin without linux compatibility

[–] cottonmon 2 points 11 months ago

It's kind of funny. I feel that the rebranding was because those launchers sucked ( a common marketing tactic.) The thing is though, the EA App still sucks so it doesn't do anything for its reputation.

[–] JimmyMcGill 0 points 11 months ago

I mean steam sucked for 8 years like 20 years ago. Technology wasn’t the same as it is. They revolutionized the pc gaming scene and I’d argue that even that Steam version was better than the current EGS version. Was it uglier? Yea maybe but it did the job. You could install, manage and launch your games, cloud saves and it wasn’t bloat or spyware. The Steam just kept getting better even if with a messy ui in some places. They do a ton of shit that generates them no direct profit but that makes using Steam a no brainer. And gamers respect and value that even if not all of them.

Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.