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Kind of ironic that they chose a thumbnail image of a character from a game suffering a slow decline and death due to being abandoned by the studio, with item server outtages and waves of bots and hackers that the community have created their own methods to deal with.
Other than that, I completely unironically agree!
Still I will not buy all my games on Steam. You never know what next person will be in charge and will turn steam into garbage. Don't want to have all my games locked into one plattform.
I tend to buy on both Steam and GoG. That way I can have my preferred client but also have downloadable full copies of games.
I always check GOG first when I want to buy a game
Really wish Valve or at least Steam became a steward owned company to save it from future owners ruining it.
Would be cool.
But honestly, since I'm a Linux user and Valve has invested in Linux gaming, I'll stick with them for now. If they violate my trust, I'll move to GOG or something. In fact, now that Heroic gets a cut from GOG sales, I'm buying some of my games there, just to indicate to GOG that there's interest.
If a competitor comes along, I'll use them. But for now, Steam is the best option for me, so I'm rewarding them.
Dear valve. Please never ever go public. We will happily keep giving you money while you keep yourself a private company
They're the perfect example of why profitable companies should stay private. They make bonkers money, and if next quarter they make the same amount it's fine, as opposed to a public company where they only have value if they increase.
Better yet:
Dear Gabe Newell,
Please never die so you can continue running this company as you always have. You make my life as a Linux user much better, and I'll keep paying you as long as that remains the case.
There may only be dozens of us, but we love your product. Never change.
My hope is that community-developed Proton forks reach a point where they can stand on their own without Steam and Valve, perhaps as a component of or a sibling to Lutris, to conveniently run games from other platforms too.
I'll admit that I don't have a clear idea of how that would look or come about. It's hard to beat the convenience of having the compatibility tool built directly into the launcher like in Steam, with individual prefixes and settings for different games if they have different requirements.
Well, that exists and works well. Proton GE exists and works outside of Steam, and it's quite easy to manage. A lot of these improvements make their way back to WINE as well, so that's a thing.
But what really sets Steam apart, at least for me, is:
Those are a bit harder to separate. That said, running EGS or GOG games through Heroic directly works fine most of the time, so we're already there for desktop, kb+mouse use. So if Valve goes evil, we have options.