None of these platforms bring anything to the table, or offer competition to Steam when the games are exclusive to them.
Making the game exclusive is of no benefit to anyone except Bethesda - and even then, it's only going to be a benefit if the loss of sales and costs of running the service themselves is less than Steam's cut.
Good, Steam needs a kicking.
Based on what, exactly?
No other storefront/launcher has a fraction of the features that Steam provides, and features that they add often cause issues.
The Origin and Uplay overlays cause problems for a number of games, and Uplay even complains when you try to launch a game with it disabled.
Change and competition are good.
Change is not inherently good, and this isn't competition.
I've noticed this bizarre trend where more often than not the people who mostly play on consoles and hardly give a shit about PC gaming are the ones who "don't get what's so good about Steam" and "wish it had dozens more storefronts to compete with", because, you know, monopoly are bad... except on their favorite consoles.
I'm not convinced that all of these people even play games on their PC.
There are a lot of people on these forums that actually seem to be angry about the fact that many games are now multiplatform so that more people get to play them, rather than being exclusive to one console.
How do you PC gamers feel about this? It doesnt seem like its a trend thats going away anytime soon. It just gonna get worse. Anyone thinking of switching to consoles instead because of this?
The only thing this changes for me is that it makes me significantly less interested in their games, and gives them far less visibility.
It certainly doesn't make me think about switching over to a console with far more limitations.
It's bad enough for me to keep track of a game if it's announced for Steam but doesn't have a page up on the store so that I can add it to my wishlist, until very shortly before release. I've usually forgotten all about it by then.
Tried running Bethesda.net version of Quake Live through Steam just now and... Looks like you can't even use the add bethesda.net titles as non-steam games and use the overlay.
Fallout Shelter has similar message.
I'm aware both of these games are on Steam btw. But when I can I like to launch games through steam and use the overlay.
Unless they do something about this, it means their games will be incompatible with the Steam Controller now.
Got to love that competition.
Puhlease I turboe'd that 133 mhz to 166 mhz for Tib Sun.
Don't give me that shit :D
(And it still ran like shiteee)
The 'Turbo' button didn't do what you're thinking it did.
It shifted the CPU to a low performance state to match the performance of an original Intel 8088 running at 4.77 MHz for older applications/games that relied on that specific timing.
