Well because uhmm. Gamers just use it ironically you know. Free speech. Elon Musk help me, they want to persecute gamers. Gamers.
Well because uhmm. Gamers just use it ironically you know. Free speech. Elon Musk help me, they want to persecute gamers. Gamers.
This is not true, the windows store version always supported mods. I have played a modified b30 I made and Vadam's Reach campaign without any hassle. What is true is that the mod tools are all needlessly locked to steam (with only Halo 1a's tools being free) and with support for the steam modding thing this just means mods are going to be locked to steam for no reason if the mod makers don't upload anywhere else, as is the case for Zomboid and probably a bunch of other games. If literally any other platform did this they would be rightfully ripped to shreds, yet for some reason everyone gives this shitty company a pass.
That's the case with Gog and Epic. Installing mods on Kenshi and Bannerlord respectively is just a case of dragging mods to the specific folder. This has to do with drm in the game and not the platform.
I do. Steam is always consistently fucking awful to use and used to crash explorer relatively consistently when I used it. Never had any problems with any other launcher, including the ubisoft one.
From what I understand, the Microsoft Store versions of Bethesda games do not allow you to use .dll script extenders. AFAIK you can't do the required hex editing on the game .exe to unlock Control's dummied out PS4 exlusive content either. That was the sort of stuff I was referring to
Oh yeah, now that you mentioned it, I did remember one thing I don't like- the Steam Workshop, mainly on games I've pirated (Though you can still download the mods on there through unofficial means) I also don't like the "subscription" model it uses. I remember a scenario where a mod author ragequit a community, but before leaving they pushed an update that totally wiped their mods for every user. Very cool!
I just haaaaaaaaate all the different Xbox Apps and their ugly console slash mobile phone design. As for the others, I've got decades of shit on Steam already, I just don't want to bother with other launchers. I wouldn't want to install another browser for a specific website either.
In an ideal world you'd take the good features from Steam and put them into some kind of open source thing
Weird. Steam is awful, but I've found that it's tied with Epic for "at least it actually works and is basically functional" as far as launcher/storefronts go. The Microsoft Store/Gamepass, Uplay, and Origin are all some level of "does not even function as a storefront on a basic level and/or is completely broken."