Because Rage 2, Prey, Fallout 76 are all Bethesda games and they would benefit from getting their own launcher to have better features and performance.
How can STEAM be the superior platform for Bethesda games at the end of the day? Bethesda should know what is better for their own games and their own business and I hope they build on that.
Why do you care that I want Bethesda to put in work on their own stuff instead of "giving" up and just bowing to Valve? Why does it affect you?
You basically are saying they shouldn't even try because of the superiority of Steam? With this attitude, nothing would get done, not even Steam.
You would have a point of Beth launcher weren't presently an undeniably worse launcher than Steam. Even when it isn't broken, the difference in featureset is incomparable. Numerous other publishers have created their own launchers and none of them have yet come up with a single compelling reason that showcases how their launcher actually benefits their game in a way that Steam cannot. Not a single fucking one. The idea that Bethesda launcher will, or even conceivably can come up with that justification is sort of laughable. The idea that you think this is in any way about building a better player experience sort of blows my mind. This is about money. And while I understand the sense behind their business choices, I don't like them, and I don't see any reason I should.
How can Steam be the superior platform for Bethesda games? How can it not? We don't even have to argue about the hypothetical. Bethesda launcher exists. It is an inferior experience. It speaks for itself.
I suppose the reason I care is that I see this situation, the proliferation of launchers, the necessity as someone with broad tastes of suffering every single one of them, as an absolute and inherent negative. Steam has competition. It's had competition for years. For all of that, Steam remains the standout head and shoulders champ. But I can't use Steam for half of the games I want to play, and that number is only going to get worse. So in light of that, in light of you and me being strong armed into every single crummy platform on PC under the undeniable justification of increased profits. And to make matters worse, there's little reason to even be optimistic about where it'll take us. These platforms will drag you to them through exclusivity. They will keep you there through exclusivity. So where's the incentive to improve? If you have to install a different platform for every single publisher's games, featureset becomes pointless to compete on, and player/customer experience becomes a pointless investment.
This sucks. But you seemed optimistic. And I wanted to know why.
EDIT: TO be clear, I'm not in the no steam no buy crowd. I have Origin, I have Uplay, I have Battle.net, because I have to have all of these thigns to play the things I want to play. This isn't about a refusal to try. This is about the knowledge that I'll be forced to endure them.
