Con gusto, parce.

EGS is a laggy mess and I can’t even play Fortnite, one of the top 5 most popular games, on Linux, because Epic Games decided they don’t like Linux. Other games have Easy Anticheat that works on Linux, but Epic intentionally chose to exclude those users, this is an encapsulation of why they suck ass compared to Steam.

Yup, there’s a reason so many developers are willing to go to Steam despite them taking a larger cut. It was so weird that Epic seemed to market to consumers about how it was so much better for developers while they did nothing to actually make their platform desirable for either.

It works great for me on wifie 6e, I did have issues using remote play from my PC to my deck until I disabled AX for the 2.4/5ghz networks on my router tho

Family sharing got a huge upgrade recently too where now only the game you’re actually playing is locked instead of your whole library.

The modding is great, I got so much extra content for Mudrunner by the mods available in the community.

Same with Mech Warrior5, even just adding the war mod turned on more fire and smoke from salvos and thick clouds from burning mechs; it brought the game from a cartoony weapon feel to an actually battle scene.

It’s a sidegrade. The ability to share with overseas family was nixed, which sucks for immigrants

I collected free games for sure. I don’t even know if I played many of them. Tbh most of them were older and would go on sale on steam and I’d just buy them there.

Also steams Linux support is so good, I just can’t do epic

Not out of the goodness of their heart but to drive sales and foster a customer base willing to return.

I think this is partially true, but also I legit think Gabe Newell is ideologically a market anarchist that legitimately loves video games as a medium. He probably could have (more safely) made even more money doing something else considering his early Microsoft connections and ability but he didn’t.

Unfortunately as a result, the moment hes dead Valve might be in trouble long term. Depends on who takes over afterward and how they want to direct Valve. Pierre-Loup Griffais or Lawrence Yang seem possible given how successful Steam Deck has been. Its hard to get a read on them. They seem smart and well meaning though.

Based on what I’ve heard of the internal structure of Valve, there’s a good chance he’s helped foster enough an environment of “doing what you love” that it’d survive him retiring/dying. Maybe not forever, but at least for a long while after he’s gone.

It’s a moving target. Everything I care about video game stores now I did not care when it was new. Steam itself in 2003, need it to update to latest counter strike. By 2014 years later, I’m done managing updates for individual games by looking on websites online for downlads. I want a store client like Steam to handle that. Didn’t care for the first half of Steams life. I was still buying physical PC games when I could up to 2014. That’s why I said 2014

Didn’t care about linux Steam because it sucked until Proton. Since Proton I care. Didn’t care about big picture mode because steam machines bombed the first time and I didn’t use remote play. Now I use remote play and regularly use big picture mode because I buy big phones with OLEDs and remote play is great now because of that. Phones are why I care about 21:9 support as much as I do now.

Didn’t care about Steam Input because I was kb/m all day type of person. I play with gamepads more now. Steam Input is major. Indie games were less common in 2008 and a lot less complex than they are today. Easy to get the good ones because everyone talked about them. Now most good indie games have no reviews on open/metacritic. Steam reviews and curators point me to the majority of my purchased indie games. Also even the studio/publisher pages that Steam has now showing what they have released. That’s the other way I find games. Steam has brand pages for a while now. I actually use those like here for koei tecmo

Steam Developer: KOEI TECMO

(store.steampowered.com)

Or smaller game XD. Played Icey and ended up trying a couple games under them through the publisher Steam page

Steam Developer: XD International

From the drawing board to your Steam library, we are all about dreaming up games and getting them out there. We develop, we publish, and we play. [PR/Partnerships Contact: cooperation@xd.com]

(store.steampowered.com)

Library organization. Did not care about the collections feature until this year. Same with the user submitted store page tags. The collections feature can create from those tags and I make custom collections too to organize my big library. I just recently learned you can drag and drop rather than right click add to collection.

Sounds simple but it sucks on pretty much every PC store platform software besides steam. Managing multiple drives. Moving game folders between drives and the store client handling it well

numerous other things that come in handy from time to time. Like user created guides. SteamOS is more featureful than the OS’s on a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series before even exiting out to the desktop mode. Remember Mixer on Xbox. Steam has broadcasts and has had it for a long time now and it’s never been popular but they never killed it and now I occasionally use it to check out how a new game looks. MS would have killed broadcasts like they killed Mixer when it didn’t become a mega hit. Steam keeps it’s niche features ongoing and generally improves over time even if at a snails pace. MS and other companies, they just kill the feature

Latest thing that is just as much Valve as it is community. PC gaming on Android. Valve initiated funding for Fex emu and it’s paying dividends now that you can run a lot of Steam games on Android now. Same with recent versions of Proton/Wine that now have ARM builds for them. Major boon to Android PC game emulation. Eventually going to be a major plus for Steam in user friendliness compared to the storefronts not putting resources towards easy x86 to ARM translation support

And hopefully by that time they’ve built up the open source community enough that even if Valve turned bad they wouldn’t be able to do much damage

To be fair to Epic, I don’t want to leave Steam. It’s great having most of my games in one place. Steam has had very pro-customer policies. Even when I got some free games on Epic, if I ended up playing them a lot, I would just buy the game on Steam when it next went on sale just to keep my collection in one place

As long as Steam keeps favoring the users, I’ll keep using it

Steam is the only platform I can think of where I actually still trust the review

Effort costs money so they won’t make any.

Well, at least in Tim Sweeney’s twisted mind that’s how it works. In reality, spending $100,000 to have a developer actually support the year would do way more to get long term customers on the store while coating a pittance jn comparison to how much EGS spent on exclusivity deals.

Steam is easy to use. Egs always feels slow and bloated even though it doesn’t have things to load.

News flash: epic was never anyones friend or any type of “good guy”.

Just as a reminder you still can not see the games in your library for Epic without getting the desktop app or looking at your past purchases.

Absolutely dense how bad and how little you can do with their game store.

I mean, I got a bunch of free games off epic, and have never touched any of them.

I mean isn’t replacing community with consumerism one of the main goals of modern capitalism?