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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)

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[+] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If your proposal is some sort of grant program to make that infrastructure easier to come by then that could be neat. Nothing about steams actual technology is unique though.

A federated indie store could also be neat, though like other federated systems with money involved especially you'll need to be extra careful about how it's all set up to make sure the result is any good.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The point is, steam competitors don't do badly because they lack the man hours of steams Dev team. They do badly because of terrible company vision and incentives. Open sourcing a tech doesn't solve a problem that doesn't exist. I don't even think open sourcing steam really does.. Anything, for developers. Philosophically cool, practically useless, everything that steam is exists in piecewise form already. Turning steam into a federated service is not meaningfully faster because you make steam open source.

Gog is the closest and does fine. The technology is about on par with steam, the philosophy of the service better, and they are doing fine. Not overwhelming steam no, but fine.