Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Man, people like you will end up regretting their opinion once Gabe retires/dies.
I mean, worse thing that can happen is that valve becomes a public traded company with greedy stockholders... Like basically all their current competitors. I'm happy that a lot of what they did with Proton is FOSS. Even if they stop tomorrow, all that work will remain and continue. That's a lasting contribution. Not sure I can say the same for the rest.
Sure but if you treat them like a monopoly and your library depends on them, they can turn around and make things go bad for everyone real quick. The tools used to run the games on Linux might be open source, Steam is still a form of DRM that you depend on to play your games! They could easily start charging a monthly subscription to not have ads pop-ups in game!
No, they could not. Regulators would stop that very quickly. Steam is large enough that would be noticed.
Now, tell me what the other stores have to offer? Epic has the same issues, but with less games and more crappy launcher. Gog is DRM free... But those games you can get DRM free elsewhere too. The rest have very limited catalog and little features.
In the end Steam is big because they are doing things better by most players standards. I will be extremely happy the day the competition starts doing something aside from "being the underdog".
Just like they're stopping streaming services from doing it?
What streaming service is adding pop up adds on movies or shows you have purchased?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/02/playstation-is-deleting-tv-shows-players-paid-for-thanks-to-warner-bros/
Edit: They don't add ads instead they are removing bought shows, which is even worse. Amazon shows ads before shows on their subscription service (self-promotion of shows/movies).
Well they don't make the games so they couldn't really do that nor would game developers be very appreciative of that. But I see your point. There's nothing stopping you buying all your games on steam then making a copy of them elsewhere to play with a steam emulator if it goes tits up
"We're reducing our cut from 30% to 15% and introducing ads for players that don't want to pay."
Tada! Most devs would fall in line just like they don't mind releasing on Steam instead of other platforms that take a smaller cut just to have access to a bigger player pool.