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Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
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I would argue this is the most important sentence in this article.
The article also is too favorable for Valve and doesn’t mention alternative methods. The billion dollar company should allow people to install games on their browsers. The client is nothing but an analytics and tracker. There’s no benefit, just like there’s no benefit in XBox or PS4/5 achievements or their features.
You're kidding right? The Steam client is overflowing with features, beyond the nice and simple mod manager, multiplayey systems for easy joining it also has a full featured discord alternative inside the chat system with voice and text chat and I think even screen sharing. To compare it to Xbox achievements is just insane for how much the steam client provides.
XBox does the sane thing, why do you think it costs money to play multiplayer. Steam multiplayer isn’t even used because corporations have their own servers. The Client really is useless as it’s just a copy of XBox/PS+
Bad decisions from MS with the original xbl that were copied by the entire industry mostly.
How should that work?
Why is it Valves responsibility to provide alternative install methods? If you genuinely believe it isn't providing value just don't use Steam to buy games if you don't want to install using it.