I'm not sure why people would actively want their game to require either EGS or Steam, though, even if it's convenient. EGS has business practices that drive a lot of people crazy, and Steam has an awful security track record and was also convicted of anticompetitive pricing. (Though people seem to like Steam's business practices even with that conviction, which also always struck me as a little weird.)

It seems like not requiring either one would be the more neutral, agreeable position to take.

yup. And that cost/convinience is how we get trapped in the FAANGs of tech. The steam gamers are naive if they think the same can't happen to Valve. Gabe won't live forever.

and as a last bit of irony, we're already seeing those backdoor deals being opened up as we see how there was a point to the price fixing argument Wolfire accused of. They could have just let Overgrowth sell on their website, and now Valve is playing a game of cat and mouse on whether they re getting mass arbitration or class action.

>and you don’t have to create yet another account or have another buggy pos launcher on your computer.

Steam is another account I don't care much for personally. And steam has always allowed for third party accounts to be needed. You think then GTA 6 launches in 2029 on PC or whatever that people are gonna complain about needing a Rockstar account?

A lot of that "discourse" is just turf wars and entitlement.

> People don't object when a different store brings actual value, like GoG

and look how they equated to sales. Just world fallacy isn't working out.

GOG may be more consumer friendly, but from what I could read EGS is the 2nd biggest PC platform in the US.

>except so far Valve hasn't really done anything like that.

they've done plenty, just behind closed doors. They have their own interesting lawsuit situation that HN conveniently buried a few weeks back.