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That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago

a launcher that has a primary purpose of launching other games from other stores might have been a bridge too far.

Really? Because steam has been selling games from companies who do this for years with the only backlash coming from upset customers that the corporations usually ignore anyways.

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago

That's still for games sold through Steam. Most importantly, that's for games that the companies agreed to sell through Steam.

If I was Valve, my biggest concern here would be that officially selling a tool for sideloading Epic games could be seen as approving of breaking Epic's ToS. Epic is also very sue happy when it comes to attacking rival companies.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What are you referring to? Because in this case Steam would be getting a certain amount once for you to be able to play hundreds or thousands of games on another platform

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

The many games you buy on Steam that then launch another god damn launcher from another company when you launch them.

I hate it, but Steam never seemed to mind.

[-] greenacres3233@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

Bought a game recently on steam, and it wanted to launch Ubisoft connect after installing - fastest refund I ever requested.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Do they launch the actual EA launcher or Ubisoft Connect and you can buy your games from there and install them without giving Valve their cut?

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 35 points 3 days ago

Paid product? I'm not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 11 points 3 days ago

It said it was free to download and use but a convenience charge for getting it on Steam.

But like you, I'm also happy with Heroic, and there's also Lutris.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

There are a few foss programs and games that do that and it does make sense since it costs money to put things on steam.

[-] MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I didn't agree with it being a paid product either. And I might have been misunderstanding so don't take my word on this, but I think it was originally open source and free (at least in money, not sure about freedom) ~~for those running Bazzite~~ and primarily designed for Bazzite Linux and that they planned to keep supporting that version, so I feel like all that would do for the Steam Deck is incentivize people to install Bazzite Linux on it so that it would be free.

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

It's available as a open source Decky plugin, but the steam version was going to be a paid closed source rewrite.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I've installed it on a Chimera machine also via Decky so I don't think it's distro specific.

[-] MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, I didn't mean to make it sound like it was distro-speciffic, I just think that Bazzite was the primary platform target originally (but I might be wrong)

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

watch the reason be epic and/or gog not wanting their stores to be thought of as 'junk'

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Heroic Launcher works fine for me. What those others launchers do?

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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