running game without a bunch of garbage

Steam is part of the garbage, you don’t really need a third party launcher to run a software.

Microsoft just got into the video game selling business

In the past years microsoft made big and aggressive acquisitions in the videogames industry like bethesda and blizzard. The new xbox portable which is a direct competitor to the steam deck doesn’t have cd anymore, the only way to get games is through microsoft store.

Valve is winning because the average gamer doesn’t care much about owning his videogames.

it doesn’t just do nothing,

Valve is a for profit company, one of their main goals is to make money and they work daily to do that. There are people at Valve who work 8h a day on how to boost profits.

People love to shit on valve working on lootboxes, but I was there to see how it developed. It was there as part of a way of getting money back to the people making stuff, which is why a shitload of the TF2 hats came from the community and steam workshop. The system came from a left wing greek economist, before , you know, he BECAME Minister of Finance for greece (for half a year)

I think you are confusing lootboxes with the items market which was there mainly to compensate the free to play model. If you were there i hope you remember too no DRMs and no third party software launchers to run games.

This is why they have steam OS

They have steam OS because microsoft become one of their competitors

Remember that you are on Lemmy: a decentralized and open source platform owned by the community.

Steam is a proprietary, closed source, for profit third party software launcher owned by a billionaire.

Parties who label themself as “left” and “right” always serve the rich class.

It’s about time people move the fuck off github

they are afraid