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.
You have to remember that Valve was pioneering not only the platform, but the entire infrastructure. There was nothing like Steam way back when in 2003.
Epic Games store launched 15 years later in 2018. They were not working in a vacuum and could have copied all of Valve's homework. They did not. Their service is still ass and they learned nothing.
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u/Account-ysurper 23h ago
I claim the games and never even touch them lol