"Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it."

I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

  • Voyajer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    3 days ago

    I’d rather see competitors actually try and be better than steam rather than make steam worse.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      228·
      3 days ago

      How did you get “make steam worse” from that?

      Everything else still exists, just not controlled by Valve

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
          114·
          3 days ago

          How? If any feature is necessary then it will be filled by someone else

          You aren’t losing anything

          • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            7·
            3 days ago

            Apart from all the non-profitable features divorced from meaning.

            The forums would go in the blink of an eye.

            And then each section would try to make itself complete in itself to hoard user time, and at least one would start selling advertising space.

              • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                Negatively.

                In money for servers as well as time. And that’s for something with far less users than Steam.

                • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
                  1·
                  24 hours ago

                  That’s the point

                  It’s done because you want to do it not to make money

                  Maybe you have 10-20 forums installed into your client to cover the games you play

                  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                    1·
                    20 hours ago

                    So when you said “break up Steam” you didn’t mean it in the usual, anti-monopoly sense where bits of a company are spun out into independent entities or sold off?

                    You meant let everything be done by enthusiasts and have it kinda interoperable?

                    I’m not against that, but I think there are bigger dragons of capitalism to slay first before we hope that splitting forums off of Steam doesn’t send them the way of the IMDB forums.

      • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        Because each independent section would try to make more money and end up breaking things and adding new shit users don’t want but marketing execs think are good.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
          112·
          3 days ago

          Then find a different workshop/forum/launcher to pair with the Steam store

          In no world is it worse than what we have now

          • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            He literally just said how it’d be worse. Although that’s probably not how it would get worse, splitting up the services of steam would make them inherently worse.

          • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Name an example of a better workshop, I’ve used nexus mods and it’s a complicated mess that requires a subscription to get normal download speeds for content created for free by other people