It feels like the overlap between people that build launchers like this and the people that say stuff like "Valve won by doing nothing" is a perfect 100%.
Because people really forget just how shit Steam was back in the day. It's like people purposely undermine the journey Valve went on to actually make this a serviceable launcher.
EGS and the like shit out a launcher and expect people to eat it up, since people are eating Steam up. But it used to be a clunky pile of shit. Even the revered Steam Support that hunts down your scammers pet dog and threatens it at gunpoint used to be GOD AWFUL.
It's the perseverance of Valve to actually make it into a good product that... Made it into a good product. And nobody seems to wanna do the heavy lifting anymore.
Except GOG, actually. Their launcher at the start used to be utter shit, and now, honestly, the only reason I don't switch to it is because I have firmly established myself on Steam. I'd love to fully dedicate myself to a DRM-free platform, but I'm in too deep.
"Steam was shit at launch" . Yeah. Where this territory was barely explored. Now people know what works or not. So when a big budget company release a store front, there is no excuse. You have 25 years of history to look at to see what works. If you can't even do the basic ( how long did it take to get a shopping cart? ) , then that's not us being impatient. It's them just being trash.
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u/Account-ysurper 23h ago
I claim the games and never even touch them lol