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0 pointsvaer-k7y ago0 comments

> Ultimately, people aren't making Steam accounts because of the Steam workshop or Steam forums or Steam chat or what have you—they're making Steam accounts because there's a game on Steam that they want to play.

This is just false. Steam has evolved beyond just a marketplace, and I go there because I enjoy the tools they provide. From VR, to family sharing, home streaming, and more.

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Wowfunhappy7y ago· 1 in thread

Imagine an alternate universe where the Steam client had feature parity with our universe's Epic client, and Epic's client had feature parity with our universe's Steam client. Do you think users would abandon their Steam libraries for the Epic Store, in order to have home streaming?

What's relevant to this discussion isn't what features you like about Steam, but what features cause people to make Steam accounts. In other words, is it actually possible for another player to compete on features alone?

Doxin7y ago

You can use both steam and epic simultaneously, there is no need to abandon anything. In your proposed universe I most definitely would be making new purchases on epic wherever possible.

Exclusives of any kind are anti-consumer, whether it is steam doing it or epic.

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