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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: One Launcher to Rule Them All
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:39:48 -0400
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:33:37 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>On 24/06/2025 22:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> Will it work? I'm guessing probably not. It's obviously a shot across
>> the bow at Steam, trying to dislodge Valve's near-monopoly on PC
>> gaming. But it again makes the mistake of thinking that the reason for
>> Steam's success is because it's just a great way to LAUNCH your games,
>> when Steam offers so much more. And not having to (manually) launch a
>> second client for those few non-steam games is probably not enough
>> reason to give up the advantages of using Steam. So I don't see this
>> attempt having much more success than Epic Game Store, GOG galaxy or
>> other third-party clients like Playnite.
>
> From a personal point of view I tend to agree as launching games is 
>just not what I use Steam for. That's where desktop short cuts come into 
>play.

I actually use Steam for launching (I hate desktop clutter so
shortcuts to launch the game aren't welcome ;-). But it's not the
primary reason I rely on Steam. Its discussion groups are useful. It's
workshop is useful. It's store-pages are a hell of a lot more useful
and informative than on pretty much any other platform (GOG comes
close). 

I launch games from Steam because Steam is useful. Other launchers
will need to offer more than just "all the libraries in one place" to
make me consider alternatives (especially since I already have one
that does that: Playnite... and I /still/ use Steam).