Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You realize there’s more DRM free games on Epic than on Steam even though there’s less games overall? If your standard for a good launcher is being able to start the game from a .exe then I’ve got bad news about Steam…

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  • mods_mum@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What bad news about Steam?

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    • addie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Presumably Kecessa is alluding to the fact that, unlike GOG, Steam games open however the developers / publishers want them to. Which is sometimes just a plain exe, sometimes it’s an exe that starts Steam so that it can use its API / DRM, sometimes it opens the publisher’s launcher, and so on. Bit irritating on Linux when you want to pass some options in to the command, and a bit irritating generally when you never want to see the launcher again, but it’s no disaster.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t just launch Steam games without Steam running, Steam itself is DRM.

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      • 9bananas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        not true; that’s a developer thing, not steam itself.

        steam offers it as an option, it doesn’t force developers to use it.

        plenty of games bought on steam can be run entirely without steam.

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