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A big part of the 30% is that people generally believe steam will not fuck them over. While everyone HATES literally all other launchers and walled gardens beca

A big part of the 30% is that people generally believe steam will not fuck them over. While everyone HATES literally all other launchers and walled gardens because they know EA et al want to fuck them over as hard as they possibly can, at every opportunity.

0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
It also helps that the other launchers are terrible. There must be some hidden complexity of which I am unaware, because I do not understand. As a rule, slow to launch, memory hogs, unresponsive, etc. This for a local application that has a library of…10k items in the entire store? The inventory could comfortably be processed inside Excel and yet the launchers struggle.
- pathartl 1y ago
  This is a crazy reductionist view of databases.
  - beeflet 1y ago
    You are free to correct it
  - ahofmann 1y ago
    I don't know how absolute terrible the database must be, that you are talking about, but I think that managing 10k entries of whatever shouldn't be any problem at all for anything with a CPU and like 640KB of RAM.
  - papichulo2023 1y ago
    Not wrong though. Almost like a embedded sqlite would be overkill.
colonial 1y ago
It's extremely telling that nobody (developer or consumer) takes the Epic Games store seriously, in spite of their effort to undercut Steam on this front (0% on the first mil, and 12% after that - to say nothing of the free game promos.)
- jay_kyburz 1y ago
  As far as I'm aware, Epic is still invite only. I don't think just anybody can launch an indie game on Epic. I could be wrong, I don't keep up with Epic because the store itself has such bad UI design.
  - colonial 1y ago
    Epic has offered self-publishing tools for a while. They do involve a human review step, but one look at the piles of NFT shovelware available shows that the bar is in Hell. (Granted, Steam isn't too picky either, but at least they draw the line at unregulated speculative assets.)

0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago

It also helps that the other launchers are terrible. There must be some hidden complexity of which I am unaware, because I do not understand. As a rule, slow to launch, memory hogs, unresponsive, etc. This for a local application that has a library of…10k items in the entire store? The inventory could comfortably be processed inside Excel and yet the launchers struggle.

pathartl 1y ago
This is a crazy reductionist view of databases.
- beeflet 1y ago
  You are free to correct it
- ahofmann 1y ago
  I don't know how absolute terrible the database must be, that you are talking about, but I think that managing 10k entries of whatever shouldn't be any problem at all for anything with a CPU and like 640KB of RAM.
- papichulo2023 1y ago
  Not wrong though. Almost like a embedded sqlite would be overkill.

colonial 1y ago

It's extremely telling that nobody (developer or consumer) takes the Epic Games store seriously, in spite of their effort to undercut Steam on this front (0% on the first mil, and 12% after that - to say nothing of the free game promos.)

jay_kyburz 1y ago
As far as I'm aware, Epic is still invite only. I don't think just anybody can launch an indie game on Epic. I could be wrong, I don't keep up with Epic because the store itself has such bad UI design.
- colonial 1y ago
  Epic has offered self-publishing tools for a while. They do involve a human review step, but one look at the piles of NFT shovelware available shows that the bar is in Hell. (Granted, Steam isn't too picky either, but at least they draw the line at unregulated speculative assets.)