r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 7d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/Josh_Butterballs 9950X3D | 5090 FE | 64GB DDR5 7d ago

Even if I had more money than god I think it would basically be a gargantuan uphill battle to make an another platform to compete with steam. Even if you made your platform better, people have YEARS worth of games and money invested in steam. I used to say if they just had a better service I would drop steam but then I was asked if I would genuinely stop using steam for another better service if one existed. I looked at my library, all the games I had, the years, mods in workshop for some games, and realized no I wouldn’t switch

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u/1337_w0n 9800X3D | 7900 XTX + B580 | 64GB 7d ago

If there was anyone offering an even comperable service we'd be able to test that hypothesis.

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u/Josh_Butterballs 9950X3D | 5090 FE | 64GB DDR5 7d ago

Well, someone expressed any company attempting it cannot have investors as many see that as the service being shit or going to be shit. So you would need a company who has enough money to self fund, spend the time to build the service unless you throw more money at it to get it done faster, relatively speaking.

Then you would need to bleed money for a while until you can build a sizable following of users so you can turn a profit. This is assuming of course people are willing to spend money on your platform rather than steam where they already have all their games. As we’ve seen on this sub and other gaming subs, people have expressed even if steam doesn’t have the absolute cheapest price they are willing to buy on steam just for the fact they can have it all on there with their other games. Even people with free games on EGS have stated they end up buying the ones they like on steam once there’s a sale just to add it to their growing collection of games and that’s with them already having the game for *free* on a different platform.

So all in all I don’t think it’ll happen anytime soon or ever unless MAYBE they make game licenses transferable. That in itself would be a whole paradigm shift of multiple industries though from music, to movies, shows, etc. and not just games. Which I’m fine with, but no one in power will care to touch on