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If you think that they do such a shitty job, you probably should enter the market as a competitor...

• NamTaf 11y ago
  Steam has numerous competitors but by being the first major player they carry a huge inertial advantage. Having a huge library of games is a REALLY big incentive for people to stay there. I've been thinking about it and honestly the only way I can think a new competitor could breach into a significant market share, short of Valve screwing up completely, is to offer to duplicate a user's library across to their own platform.
  • awqrre 11y ago
    I was under the impression that many games, under Linux, could only be played using Steam.
  • lifeformed 11y ago
    I wonder if you could make a client that also wraps over Steam? So you have your own store and library and messaging system and everything, but you also log into your Steam account under the hood and it mirrors all your Steam things. So you can launch your Steam games and talk to your Steam friends, but have a nicer client.
    • y4mi 11y ago
      a lot of games have steam DRM in them, making them unplayable unless the steam client is open and logged in. so, this couldn't work unless steam creates some kind of API to get around the DRM, which they obviously won't.