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Steam has so much value add beyond just its storefront, which is still the biggest in gaming. The community features are the most important - being able to see
by huac 10y ago
Steam has so much value add beyond just its storefront, which is still the biggest in gaming. The community features are the most important - being able to see who's playing what and more importantly, being able to join their server, is not possible (yet) with Curse/Twitch. A lot of the Curse stuff is honestly little value, and if we're keeping track, implemented in Steam already. Curse Voice = Steam's in-game calls or calls over Steam Message; add-ons/forge = Steam Workshop.
I think that Twitch's streaming capabilities are going to be the question - are they enough of a differentiating factor to break people away from Steam and onto Twitch Desktop?
- Crespyl 10y agoI probably buy fewer things through Steam than I do Humble Bundle, GoG, etc., but do all my gaming through Steam anyway just for all the other things it provides, even aside from social things like friends-lists and server joining. To name a few: cloud saves, steam workshop, big picture, and steam controller. Even if I dropped all the social features in favor of some other platform, I'd still be launching all my games through steam for those features alone.
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