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I’d be happy to support any kind of platform aiming to do these things even if it doesn’t have them yet, so long as it was open source or had some kind of structure that prevented enshitification. I’d contribute, probably force myself to use it where possible much like I do with other things. The issue is that the current competition trying to do what steam does (epic) is just trying to do it but worse.
Apologies for the confusion when I said to stop preventing steam becoming public. I was just too lazy to write something along the lines of defining some kind of perpetual way to prevent the downfall of steam. Ideally it becomes an open source utopia tomorrow… but that’s not exactly realistic for a game store or as a business decision by valve and without people beying able to fork it we are never safe.
Competition sounds great, so long as it has all of the following:
- Something better than steam input and the steam controller.
- Something better than steam vr.
- Something better than steam workshop.
- something better than proton
- Something better than steams friends/chat/activity interface.
- Something better than the steam overlay.
- Something better than big picture.
- Absolutely no exclusives, and no deals forcing developers to use it.
- A nicer store interface than valve, with better community pages, curator pages, discussion pages, etc.
- An equivalent to steam fest with a strong demo scene.
- Something better than remote play together
This is of course also ignoring just how efficient, clean, customisable and ergonomic the steam interface is compared to all competition
Oh wait! That doesn’t exist. All we need is some way to guarantee valve doesn’t become public.
If It’s not better in every way why would I swap? I’ll just keep using steam. The only selling point you could use to get me to swap is the promise of feature parity with steam and open source. I would support that even if it hurt a lot along the way, but I doubt it will happen.