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Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved (www.gamereactor.eu)

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i think personally Steam's/Valve's dominance is really good here's why:

Improving Linux gaming,improving Wine and DXVK for gaming,so you dont rely on Microsoft for your OS.
Great client(i like the: inbuilt Chromium based browser,Community features)
Not so awful and maybe simple DRM methods(eg, needing the Steam client doesnt tank the performance that much,compared to something like denuvo which i think makes modding impossible,needs consistent internet connection,and tanks the game's fps alot )
I can buy with cash giftcard to buy games(I wish GOG had that)
Workshop for modding on supported games.(ik some games have workshop and dont let you mod everything)
Makes/has good games(Half-life 2 is the best game i ever played)

but the bad things:

Steam Client is still 32 bit and Steam doesnt target ARM(E,G. For like M1+ macs,those need rosetta )
third party clients arent a option
You dont own anything you buy on Steam.
Having the Steam client open at all times(ik not all games have this, but i assume CEF based Steam will lower the performance like slightly)
TF2 neglect
lootboxes/battle pass in some games(i am aware Valve was the first company to have a battle pass and fortnite popularized it)
alright thats what i think of the Good and bad of Valve/Steam

Edit: Fixed Paragraph break.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think you switched to cons without saying.

I admit I haven't tried very many, but I think you can launch any steam app "normally" without steam running. If you can find the executable or startup script, you can just point a shortcut to it. Some games will need Steam Services to run, but it's not blocked or anything.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a 'but the bad things' buried in the middle, desperately wanting a line break.

I did the same thing initially and tried re-reading it as sass. Especially if "TF2 neglect" was considered positive.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

There’s a ‘but the bad things’ buried in the middle, desperately wanting a line break.

Thanks for the feedback, i have fixed it

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

they said it but there's not a paragraph break do it's easy to miss

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I admit I haven’t tried very many, but I think you can launch any steam app “normally” without steam running. If you can find the executable or startup script, you can just point a shortcut to it. Some games will need Steam Services to run, but it’s not blocked or anything.

I think i mentioned this,? but there are Steam games that dont let you use it without having the client open, but yeah there are Steam games that work without the client.

I think you switched to cons without saying.

Its there but i didnt have a line break.