I really wish we could have a different kind of competition in gaming (and some other sectors).
I miss the good old days when everything was on Steam. I wish there was some middle ground between everyone paying 30% to Valve and running 10 launchers at once. And now, with subscription models making their way in, it even more closely resembles the development of Netflix. There should be an industry standard launcher, just as there should be an industry standard cloud gaming standard. As it is now, only one of them is really usable with reasonable latency where I live, and it lacks a lot of games because NVIDIA refused to put their foot down on "we just provide a computer, not a platform".
This competition is parallel worlds that pretend their competitors do not exist and where customer choice doesn't exist (unless you're really not picky about what to play).
I miss the good old days when everything was on Steam. I wish there was some middle ground between everyone paying 30% to Valve and running 10 launchers at once. And now, with subscription models making their way in, it even more closely resembles the development of Netflix. There should be an industry standard launcher, just as there should be an industry standard cloud gaming standard. As it is now, only one of them is really usable with reasonable latency where I live, and it lacks a lot of games because NVIDIA refused to put their foot down on "we just provide a computer, not a platform".
This competition is parallel worlds that pretend their competitors do not exist and where customer choice doesn't exist (unless you're really not picky about what to play).