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Steam arguably achieved this, and now MSFT is taking it a step further with the subscription model

• shrimp_emoji 5y ago
  And the "launcher wars" are finally dying down, with companies capitulating to Steam, preventing the backslide into piracy-as-more-convenient that streaming platforms are having.
  • pests 5y ago
    Have they? I don't PC game much outside of maybe Fortnite, Halo, and now Overwatch. That's three launchers right there. I can technically add overwatch as a game in steam but if there's ever an update for overwatch it silently breaks (spins on login) until I realize I have to open battle.net to update the game. Microsoft (Xbox app) doesn't even allow you to access raw game files and executables without a lot of work and I don't even know a good solution today. You can make a launcher shortcut but it's just to the Xbox app with a parameter selecting the game. This does not work to add a custom game in steam. I do know they just changed functionality in this area so may be different now.
    • slothtrop 5y ago
      multiplayer, multiplayer, multiplayer