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Ulrich@feddit.org 6 days agoGog does it, but Gog only offers a mere fraction of what Steam has.
And that matters for the purposes of this conversation why?
Sure, Valve could enforce that, but…as said…why?
I explained why in my first comment. It’s why we’re talking in the first place.
Fragmentation and the resulting nightmare of customer-support. On steam’s AND the dev’s side.
I don’t see it. Neither of them have to support old versions.
But the vast majority of people are clueless (and still use those devices) and need to be “guided”.
No they don’t. If people are clueless, they don’t need to utilize this feature. It’s call an “option”.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Just because YOU don’t see why support on both sides hate fragmentation, doesn’t matter. They do nonetheless for very obvious reasons unless you are very alien to tech.
And yes, people do need guidance. If they’re not forced to update, they rarely do. And then they complain shit’s not working. People don’t read manuals, FAQs, guidelines and also they don’t update unless forced to (or strooongly motivated or just nagged to death). I’ve been in this industry for nearly 4 decades now. From all sides. The average Joe or Jane is the worst.
And yeah sure, it doesn’t matter at all for some games. You play the version you want and it’s all fine. But either you offer this option (which steam does BTW, as mentioned before) or you don’t. If you don’t, maaaany devs would be going to use another platform. Maybe fucking EPIC. That’d be grand.