SomeGuyWithAnOpinion
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I remember a few years ago they shipped the new Steam UI overhaul, and ever since then (for me at least), the new steam UI has been extremely slow and resource hungry, even on my beefy rig, but more importantly, major features like steam input have stopped working reliably. Now, when I try to do basic things like save new controller configurations, there's about a 50/50 chance of it instead deleting all the changes I have just made, which is ridiculous.
I know Steam is beloved by the gaming community (in some ways this is justified, in many, many other ways it is not), but it feels like Steam is now becoming just another corpo product, like Discord, which tries to do everything, uses shitty and slow "modern web" tech like Electron, and barely works despite constantly rolling out new features to try and remain relevant and compete.
The new game recording features are nice but it looks like they just want to become an OBS or nVidia Game Recorder competitor without actually delivering a quality product or fixing the issues with all of their other features.
Now they have language filtering on by default (you can change it at least, for now, don't know how long that will last), and are cracking down on more "global" use cases (like family sharing overseas, or buying games from different regions for cheap) because everything has to fit the corpo mould of overpaying for shit in your local currency where they can uniquely fuck you.
Is it time to start looking for games elsewhere? I know GOG exists, but it has a much smaller library, and GOG Galaxy is even worse than Steam in terms of functionality and performance. I guess sailing the high seas is an option, but I would like a proper way to actually purchase games, especially multiplayer games where unofficial versions don't usually work.
Has anyone else noticed Steam becoming uniquely shitty lately, or am I just being paranoid?
I know Steam is beloved by the gaming community (in some ways this is justified, in many, many other ways it is not), but it feels like Steam is now becoming just another corpo product, like Discord, which tries to do everything, uses shitty and slow "modern web" tech like Electron, and barely works despite constantly rolling out new features to try and remain relevant and compete.
The new game recording features are nice but it looks like they just want to become an OBS or nVidia Game Recorder competitor without actually delivering a quality product or fixing the issues with all of their other features.
Now they have language filtering on by default (you can change it at least, for now, don't know how long that will last), and are cracking down on more "global" use cases (like family sharing overseas, or buying games from different regions for cheap) because everything has to fit the corpo mould of overpaying for shit in your local currency where they can uniquely fuck you.
Is it time to start looking for games elsewhere? I know GOG exists, but it has a much smaller library, and GOG Galaxy is even worse than Steam in terms of functionality and performance. I guess sailing the high seas is an option, but I would like a proper way to actually purchase games, especially multiplayer games where unofficial versions don't usually work.
Has anyone else noticed Steam becoming uniquely shitty lately, or am I just being paranoid?
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