Game Recording Beta
store.steampowered.com
A new built-in system for creating and sharing your gameplay footage

Basically nvidia shadowplay for linux

  • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.

    Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.

    Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.

    Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.

    Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Most important difference: Steam isn’t the only way to install apps. Even on Steam Deck.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      That’s what all users want

      You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want.

      Oh so it’s not a store, it’s just a launcher like Heroic…wait no, it’s still a problem

      Any client should be able to implement part of steam into it and any part of steam should be a standalone company

      • bitfucker@programming.devEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        So let me get this straight. Any client that wanted to have steam features, like the forum, hosting, workshop, chat, and all the jazz, should be able to do so without paying steam any fee? Why didn’t they develop it themselves? Or should steam sell that as a service to those who wanted it? Say for example, epic wanted to have family sharing. Steam should sell their family sharing feature to epic as a service?

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          Yes, though each of those should be their own company so if steam wants forums they should be able to put someone’s website in their launcher, if they want people to buy games then they should be able to embed someone’s store in their launcher…etc

          • bitfucker@programming.devEnglish
            0·
            5 months ago

            Uhhh, no. I think it is better to implement something akin to federation than breaking up a company just because. If anyone wanted to sue valve, then they can enforce interoperability at the very least. But not dividing their business model. We don’t force apple to split their software and hardware did we? We force apple to have a choice of interoperability. From then, it is all fair since anyone can link their data from valve and any other store that opt to implement the interoperability protocol.