Honestly I have been thinking more and more about the problem with steam, and I realized that even as a foss, anti-drm proponent, steam is one of the few things

Honestly I have been thinking more and more about the problem with steam, and I realized that even as a foss, anti-drm proponent, steam is one of the few things I have bended for on those positions because of the quality of the marketplace. If they continue to fail, I truly hope something like Lutris or Desura or GoG steps up to the plate and open sources a game store (bonus if DRM free like GoG is). I mean, does anyone remember the days of hating games that required you to have a CD in the tray so you would get a noCD warez just to play? Steam solved those issues, which is what propelled it to it's current state. I don't think that's a problem with modern games though, so perhaps steam is weaker than Valve realizes if people ever actually thought about it. Now it's main function is as a game library stored in a cloud. That makes me really sad to realize too, because I feel like Valve is one of the only companies that has the resources to really push linux gaming into a new zone, but this hasn't been delivered on yet. I highly suspect they are waiting for Vulkan, but the time can't come soon enough to offer many people the last reason they need to switch to linux from windows: gaming. I have also noticed this sort of let the customers do the work for us attitude far too often lately. For example, I am loving working in Unreal Engine 4, but they promised a native linux editor and then ingored it for a long time, only once linux native users submitted enough patches to their own fork(s) before Epic finally spent some time to push those changes to the official repo. I think sometimes open source users who want things do work to get them but some companies abuse this process. In Epic's case, we still don't have a marketplace launcher on linux, and there are tons of editor bugs, such as I can't even edit skeletal animations/rigging without crashing the client. There is a balance to be had between user help and the companies that need it, but that pendulum seems to have swung far too far over to the user lately, and it needs to readjust.