Lose the 'infinite growth' promise to shareholders (in fact, lose the whole shareholder thing entirely). That's the root of all evil right there. It's the cause of all woes suffered by gamers, devs and even the very sociopathic CEOs who think Epic exclusivity is a sound financial strategy. We all suffer for it, and all to benefit shareholders who, in 2024, still believe the lie that next year's profits will exceed this year's. It's delusional, and even if it weren't, it would quite literally be cancerous. Cancer is just a board of shareholders in a biological system.
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Things I need a storefront/launcher to provide me:
- Reviews
- Wish list
- Beta/Alternate build installations
- Friend list, chat, game invite functions
- Mod browser
- Refund policy
- Excellent search and discovery tools
Nice to have:
- Forum for guides/support
- Game sharing
- Ability to move game files
As a family...I need the family sharing provided by steam. Especially the recent beta version. It's fantastic.
Two things that would be nice to have is:
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If Steam's mod directory didn't REQUIRE you to buy the game on Steam
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Shared Games could be played simultaneously
Their store, their policy, their framework, their infrastructure, their rules. Deal wirh it and install mods like any other user does. Manually
- Linux support
Steam is the only game store that is on linux
you didn't mention your distro. is that because it's ubuntu?
No, because it isn't 2015 anymore.
so you admit you weren't using arch in 2015? pffft
I use arch btw
Nah it's not ubuntu
itch.io also has a Linux app
Let me know when Heroic integrates it
Any decent person who would have been "overly optimistic" at the time would have supported epic, and just that. There was no need to go out of his way to trashtalk others like a whiny bitch, especially when at the time said "others" where the place they had a chance to make money before.
Huh, that was what 5 years ago now? I will remember telling randy he was wrong (in perhaps an alcohol fuelled rant 🤭) only to get swiftly blocked.
Brick voice 'Ahhh good times!'
Don't feel too bad. GOG sucks too, it just never had Epic's enormous pool of Chinese hype money.
Why does GOG suck?