I’ll happily buy my games on Steam just for the convenience of Steam Cloud (wrt one-click Linux gaming: there’s an effort to standardise custom Proton version loading iirc which Heroic Launcher is part of), but yeah - let’s not forget that Steam had its dark days. You reminded me of NerdCubed’s rant in 2015 about Greenlight and such that led to him dropping his Curator page at the time, and I remembered quite a bit of cheering in reaction to the Epic Games Store announcement around 2018/19 (before all the exclusivity shit afterwards).
And yeah, I remember a lot of people both cheering and hating on EGS when it was first announced. A lot of people were saying it would be as bad as uplay and whatever ea calls their launcher now (it wasn’t), or that devs would get screwed by the platform (they didn’t).
I also remember a lot of people saying it would be a “steam killer”. It wasn’t, but even without direct evidence I feel comfortable saying it was a major factor in steam finally making their launcher halfway decent. It still has a ways to go and I still think EGS does some things better (why TF would I ever want to launch directly to the store, valve? Just show me my fucking games)
I’ll happily buy my games on Steam just for the convenience of Steam Cloud (wrt one-click Linux gaming: there’s an effort to standardise custom Proton version loading iirc which Heroic Launcher is part of), but yeah - let’s not forget that Steam had its dark days. You reminded me of NerdCubed’s rant in 2015 about Greenlight and such that led to him dropping his Curator page at the time, and I remembered quite a bit of cheering in reaction to the Epic Games Store announcement around 2018/19 (before all the exclusivity shit afterwards).
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Man, I hadn’t heard that rant in years.
And yeah, I remember a lot of people both cheering and hating on EGS when it was first announced. A lot of people were saying it would be as bad as uplay and whatever ea calls their launcher now (it wasn’t), or that devs would get screwed by the platform (they didn’t).
I also remember a lot of people saying it would be a “steam killer”. It wasn’t, but even without direct evidence I feel comfortable saying it was a major factor in steam finally making their launcher halfway decent. It still has a ways to go and I still think EGS does some things better (why TF would I ever want to launch directly to the store, valve? Just show me my fucking games)