They won’t, at least not for a very long time, because they deeply resist breaking changes, even when they are a net benefit.

I think they are working towards getting everything out of the kernel though, ever since that Crowdstrike outage.

AAA in quotes ofc

At least they dont release a new counter strike every year with negative new features and a $80 entry fee, in the process leaving your game from last year to die.

Plus CS is an actual good game, cod is just yearly slop

Funny how you say “So fucking original!” as if you aren’t still booting up COD (the thing that stays the same or gets worse, rather than better).

This was funny to read, can’t deny ur right

The games that require secure boot/tpm already are installing kernel level “malware” so they can do much more with that than they can by knowing if you have tpm or not (which you do because you are playing, so 100% of their userbase will have it).

The difference is that a monarchy usually rules over everything and has the last say.

Steam is a monopoly only because every competitor has tried but failed to make a new compelling service.

Steam does have the last say within their platform (usually it’s the correct say), but they don’t disallow competition by lobbying or with other anti-competitive practices.

Some company just has to make a better service.

It’s not impossible, just no one wants to do it because they can’t make bajillions like they usually do in their other sectors where they can freely abuse the customer because there isn’t someone like Steam looking out for them.

So I agree with you, but someone must make a better service before the pc gaming marketplace marketshare can be more evenly distributed, but no one will or has. But keep in mind that Steam isn’t doing anything illegal and by no means should they forcefully be separated or anything by the government (they are not an illegal monopoly like google for example, they are simply a monopoly because they make the best service and no one is competing).

That’s always a possibility, but if it was going to happen, it would have already by now.

It’s very obvious to me that Valves leadership cares about the end goal of making gaming accessible and as easy as possible for everyone.

If they ever become evil, I feel it’s guaranteed to be because of leadership change to someone who is secretly corrupt, we just have to hope the reigns are handed down to someone good.

And if they do become evil and their product suffert as a result, they are going to create an opening for the others to fill.

The market gets harder to join as Steam makes their platform better and better. This is very very good compared to other companies that get to the top and then add physical and legal barries to others to stop them becoming competition.

Xbox has killed itself and I can’t see Playstation going anywhere anytime soon. Steam machines could take some tiny % of Playstation users, but if they do, the users stolen might have been people who wanted to swap to PC anyway. + you can access other stores on a steam machine

Bad take. The energy AI is using right now compared to all search engines is immense and real people can feel this effect because their energy bills are rising as a direct cause of new datacenters all for AI.

A lot of things are destroying the planet, but AI is certainly up there towards the top i’d think.

(And not everything in tech is bad)

Luckily unlike monopolies in other sectors, Steam doesn’t involve itself in evil oractices that more or less stops others from competing.

Someone just needs to make a better store, but they can’t because no company big enough to compete is willing to be as user friendly.

Epic, probably the second biggest store people thing about, can’t even make a good platform. They try underhanded practices like bribing developers and customers… maybe they should make their store work properly first.

There are tools for that, no?

You can install NAS software that turns self hosting stuff into one click installs.

Akamai isnt small hehe