alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 15 days agoCan anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossiblewww.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square315linkfedilinkarrow-up1691arrow-down17
arrow-up1684arrow-down1external-linkCan anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossiblewww.gamesradar.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square315linkfedilink
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·14 days ago People don’t want their library split on multiple stores. There’s always going to be a monopoly because of that, Nah. We could introduce regulation mandating that libraries have to be interoperable.
minus-squarebitfucker@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoThey already could do it. They just do it in a very shitty way. What do you think EA launcher and Ubisoft game is doing on steam? They NEED their own launcher/store for the game to run when you purchase it FROM STEAM.
minus-squareUltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoTelephones used to only talk to other phones on the same network. Could you imagine only being able to call people on the Tmobile network? The fediverse is so cool in how people from mastodon can interact with us on lemmy. Its how it should be everywhere.
Nah. We could introduce regulation mandating that libraries have to be interoperable.
They already could do it. They just do it in a very shitty way. What do you think EA launcher and Ubisoft game is doing on steam? They NEED their own launcher/store for the game to run when you purchase it FROM STEAM.
Telephones used to only talk to other phones on the same network. Could you imagine only being able to call people on the Tmobile network?
The fediverse is so cool in how people from mastodon can interact with us on lemmy. Its how it should be everywhere.