Post #3294971

2026-06-04 05:23 UTC

It’s weird how people who haven’t even researched Steamworks are suddenly professionals. If you speak to actual developers who use steam, they’ll point out that with a few lines of code, they can turn a game into multiplayer, and add features which allow them to compete against larger publishers… If you speak to users like me, i don’t give a shit about the pricing honestly. There are games I own on XBOX, Steam and meta, some duplicates. However, I use steam because I can play games I bought 10 years, and Steam have even allowed them to work on Linux by integrating proton. In fact, you can’t even tell they are for windows. And my saved games work on my Rog Ally, computer, and I can still load saved games from ages ago. I can use pretty much any controller, and load Emudeck on a Steam Deck. I’d actually argue that recently, Steam is the best thing that has happened to linux. If we didn’t have them, we’d be screwed

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@Mad_Punda@feddit.org 2026-06-04 05:49

with a few lines of code, they can turn a game into multiplayer lol, wtf are you talking about? I have no idea how that would even work. I am a game dev. I can add the API calls to connect to the servers, sure. That doesn’t make the game function correctly as a multiplayer game. So either you have no idea what you are claiming here, or you’re misrepresenting things on purpose. It makes me not trust a single thing you say and think you’re just a Valve shill. They have done good things for Linux. Doesn’t mean their anti competitive practices aren’t anti competitive.

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@mabeledo@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 19:48

If you speak to actual developers who use steam, they’ll point out that with a few lines of code, they can turn a game into multiplayer, and add features which allow them to compete against larger publishers, whose business models are often just buying other gaming studios. No. SteamWorks only provides matchmaking and listing, not hosting. I don’t know where you got this but it’s very wrong.

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