• Gorb [they/them]
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    1 day ago

    Microsoft couldn't fight steam if you gave them trillions and 100 years because i mean they made the microsoft store and the xbox PC gamepass app and they're fucking diabolical. And at no point have they ever been fixed or improved or even understand the concept of what they're trying to deliver. Also battlenet only works for the like 10 games on it, it's about as shit as any other crappy client.

    It won't and never will compete with steam

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 day ago

      They won't compete with Steam because Steam is trying to master the entire digital delivery pipeline and nobody else is. Not Blizzard, not Microsoft, not Epic, not Ubisoft, not EA. Of course Valve is trying to build a platform they can profit off of, but they are doing it by mastering the entire digital delivery pipeline and treating digital delivery as a service for all parties involved rather than looking at digital delivery as a cost savings or a cost control.

      Until someone enters the market with the goal of actually improving on digital delivery, nobody will ever compete with Steam.

        • TheVelvetGentleman [he/him]
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          23 hours ago

          Okay, hear me out. We make a horrible UI that is infuriating to use. We implement most of the things that Steam does, and we do it poorly. We don't innovate anything; that's for idiots. Then we spend hundreds of millions of dollars getting publishers to exclusively release their games on our platform. Then we spend even more money giving away games to entice the dummies to use our garbage platform.