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> How is it you can download games from Steam with the greatest of ease whereas the Windows store is a struggle? How is it Dropbox works and OneDrive doesn't?
by wongarsu 3y ago
> How is it you can download games from Steam with the greatest of ease whereas the Windows store is a struggle? How is it Dropbox works and OneDrive doesn't?
From a technical standpoint, OneDrive and the Windows Store work fine for me. The worst problem for the Windows Store that there are few compelling reasons to use it, both from the perspective of the end user and the perspective of the software developer/publisher.
And of course regarding games the case study really has to be titled "Why does every single Steam competitor fail". Multiple big name publishers tried to compete with Steam, all of them failed miserably (well, Epic Store is still around, but I think it's fair to already call it a failure).
- PaulHoule 3y agoOn top of the "no compelling reason" I've frequently had the configuration database for the Windows Store get corrupted and then be unable to install anything. When a big feature update rolled out I'd find the configuration database would be rebuilt and it would work again. I had a struggle with Microsoft support over this, I wanted some procedure to rebuild that database and fix it, they wanted me to create a whole new account on my Windows machine and I'm like "no way I'm going to spend hours reconfiguring all the applications that I use every day just so I can download one crapplet"