"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.

    • 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.