I would love for Steam to have **actual competition. Which is difficult, sure, but you could run a slightly less feature-rich store, take less of a cut, and pass the reduction fully on to consumers and you'd be an easy choice for many gamers.

But that's not what Epic is after. They tried to go hard after the sellers, figuring that if they can corner enough fo the market with exclusives the buyers will have to come. But they underestimated that even their nigh-infinite coffers struggle to keep up with the raw amount of games releasing, and also the unpredictability of the indie market where you can't really know what to buy as an exclusive.
Nevermind that buying one is a good way to make it forgotten.

So yeah, fully agreed. Compared to Epic, I vastly prefer Steam's 30% cut. As the consumer I pay the same anyways, and Steam offers lots of stuff for it like forums, a client that boots before the heat death of the universe, in-house streaming, library sharing, cloud sync that sometimes works.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't fix what ain't broke.

[–] Chailles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, the back button has been broken since basically the whole UI overhaul.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a recent update that addressed the back button. Since then, I've noticed clicking games in my wishlist and then going back returns me to my scroll position and a few pages that were missing in the back button (like it would back past them) are now there.

[–] Chailles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been told there's been an update for the back button since like a day after the new UI was released. Doesn't matter whether in Beta or Stable, it's still broken for me such that I get sent back to the library.

[–] iamhangry@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

More like: out of sight, out of mind.