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Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 5 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

The problem is that, at least for Steam, they're not a monopoly, nor are they necessary even within their market. Devs can and do distribute and/or market successful games without going through Steam and players can play games without ever getting Steam. I mean, if we were to take what I'd estimate are the most popular games right now:

Roblox - only a dedicated storefront/launcher
Minecraft - Up until recently, only a dedicated storefront/launcher, even now, not Steam
Fortnite - Originally only dedicated launcher, built a storefront off of that, still not Steam
Counter-Strike 2 - Steam
CoD - Not Steam? I think? Honestly its been such a mess in publishing I don't know.
League of Legends - Only a dedicated storefront/launcher
Valorant - Only a dedicated storefront/launcher
GTA V - On Steam
Apex Legends - On Steam
Overwatch 2 - popularized off Steam, turned to Steam after massive mismanagement butchered the game

Its absolutely possible to launch and maintain a successful game off Steam, and people have and continue to do so. Even exclusively talking about 3rd party storefront/launcher combos, theres a lot of options. Steam its just popular because its not only worth using (a bar most of the competition already fails to pass) but offers a lot both to users and developers from cheap, effective marketing, to tools to support Linux, to better controller support.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Here are the Call of Duty series games that are on Steam:

Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2 (the older one)
Call of Duty - World At War
Call of Duty - Black Ops (and notably, there is a separate game ID for the macOS Edition)
Call of Duty - Black Ops II
Call of Duty - Black Ops III (which has very good Steam Workshop Support!)
Call of Duty - Black Ops Cold War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (the newer one)
Call of Duty - WWII
Call of Duty - Vanguard
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare Remastered
Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
Call of Duty - Ghosts
Call of Duty - Infinite Warfare
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III (both the newer ones), and Warzone

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was talking about whatever the current, popular CoD is. I don't follow the series, thus my not knowing. Last time I tried to play, it was Battle.Net exclusive.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s now an MS exclusive and they have shitty plans for it because MS is a dumpster fire of a company that doesn’t give two shits about people and has been leveraging its monopoly since the 90s (they had to pay out millions over their practices with licensing of Windows and Office).

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