I agree that the epic launcher sucks, but Steamworks has also refused crossplay forever (both cross platform between PC and consoles, and cross launcher on PC, which is why a lot of the not ancient games on gog didn’t have multiplayer), meanwhile EOS gets you cross platform and cross launcher crossplay support. Pretty much anyone who wasn’t a huge AAA dev used steamworks for multiplayer until epic launched eos.
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months agoA launcher has to add value, and not just launch shit. Most of these launchers do not add any value. They just launch my game.
Elabajaba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Cross platform multiplayer isn’t held back by Steamworks. It’s held back, mostly, by Sony and Nintendo. You notice that PlayStation and Nintendo are the only platforms that regularly do not allow cross platform play. Even in games that do have cross platform play, Playstation usually only allows it with other consoles and not PC. Because Sony is fucking stupid.
Elabajaba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I don’t even know wtf you mean by “cross launcher.” Every source of the game on a PC has always been able to connect with other players who got the game on different stores.
Incorrect. Games that use steamworks for multiplayer can only play with other steam users. This has been an issue for people buying games on gog for over a decade. Big AAA devs use their own multiplayer backends, but most AA and indie use steamworks (or eos these days).
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
I’ve been on Steam since 2003. I stay up to date with the current trends and almosf always have the biggest releases day 1.
Not one Steamworks game is incompatible with an EGS/Origin/GOGGalaxy game or vice versa.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah there’s always some excuse as to why the .exe file that you interact with for three seconds before playing a game for three hours is unacceptable