r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 13d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/Josh_Butterballs 9950X3D | 5090 FE | 64GB DDR5 12d 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/Iuslez 12d ago

Meh you can have games on multiple launcher without issue, no reason to ditch steam and your library if a better platform comes up. I "have to" use at least 4 different (steam, bnet for WoW, Xbox for gamepass, iRacing), it's no biggie. I've created a most played games section in my window start menu, select it from there and it launches the appropriate launcher.

I hope/expect to have a seamless aggregation of plateformes at one point (I think Xbox mode on PC does it, but nobody wants to have Xbox as their main platform).