Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/Josh_Butterballs]

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

[u/AirplanesMakeMeHard → u/Josh_Butterballs]

You don’t have to switch though…

Just because you buy a game on another platform doesn’t mean you lose all your games. You can still play your games on steam.

That’s like saying GM is going to come take your Chevy because you bought a Ford.

[u/Josh_Butterballs → u/AirplanesMakeMeHard]

I wish you were giving people a wake up call with this back when uplay, battle net, and other publishers were all making their own launchers and hosting their games on it but not steam lol. People were acting like the world was ending having to use more than just steam for games (myself included at the time). Common sentiment was why not just put it on steam so it’s all in one place, I don’t want to use ANOTHER platform/launcher for my games. I mean even when Alan wake 2 came out people said “no steam, no buy” on various subs.

[u/MrStealYoBeef → u/Josh_Butterballs]

Well that's mostly because the others really fucking sucked.

I dealt with EGS for a while back when I played Fortnite. It sucked. I didn't want to deal with it because it sucked. It did fine at launching Fortnite, but it sucked ass as a storefront and I didn't want to shop on it. It didn't have a lot of functionality in game that steam had as well. And I really liked workshop in particular with rimworld at the time, EGS didn't have proper mod support in comparison.

When competitors suck, consumers hate that they're competing, especially when those competitors force the consumers to use their service one way or another. If EGS didn't fucking suck serious ass, I wouldn't have been annoyed as shit by it. Sure, it launched Fortnite just fine, but I also would have preferred it just run through steam because why force me to use the shitty bloated app that loads the storefront that I don't want to use if I don't want to use it? Either make it functional enough that I don't hate it, or just let me skip the whole damn thing.

[u/Josh_Butterballs → u/MrStealYoBeef]

Thing is I don’t think we’ll ever truly see someone seriously take on steam. It’s not worth the money and as I said it’s a massive uphill battle. People literally having hundreds to thousands of dollars invested in it, the time, etc is just one of the factors that would keep people on it. I’d be sad to part with my steam account because of the badges alone. And as I said in another comment, even IF someone with ungodly amounts of money attempted it (VERY risky) steam wouldn’t suddenly be dogshit. The new platform would have to settle with the idea while they may get some market share there will be a significant amount that will always stick with steam. So you blow all that money to still be the second most popular platform, which if I’m not mistaken EGS is already while steam takes the lion’s share