My friend, You are a PC / Steam fanboy. Of course you don't like to have another launcher, but if Sony have the typical business suits mind set, they would eventually try to force you to buy their games from their store and pay for online subscription. There's no way they are not planning to go that way, and if they realize someday that it cannot be done, they will say fuck to PC.
That's the biggest thing for me. It's just always negative press and makes the PS5 look irrelevant.
Im a Steam fan only because it is extremely high quality and has a unique respect for its users. In an industry where most publishers treat their customers like degenerate gamblers, Valve practically stands alone.
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Also PS5 isn't meeting sales expectations this year yet. PS5's momentum is slowing down. Why? I can think of three reasons, 1) cross gen: no need to upgrade to PS5. 2) PC ports: I will play Horizon and GOW next year in 4K120 fps wide-screen, DLSS and supperior RT. 3) Helldivers ( any 1st party multiplayer) will release day and date $10 cheaper + free online.
Sony isn't a 3rd party publisher, they aren't on PC to port games and get them pirated in torrent for expected few 100 millions which is a target they failed to achieve. Microsoft succeeded in bringing PC gamers to subscribe to GP and Sony wants the same. That's eventually their target.Im a Steam fan only because it is extremely high quality and has a unique respect for its users. In an industry where most publishers treat their customers like degenerate gamblers, Valve practically stands alone.
In case you missed it, Origin, BattleNet, Bethesda, Uplay, Rockstar, 2K, and hopefully Epic Games are all in the process of ramping down and moving their games to Steam. This is good. Those other shit piles never should've existed, and they can't die soon enough.
No Playstation gamer would tolerate Playstation 5 having 5 other publisher-specific storefronts with separate logins, game libraries, friends lists, inconsistent controller support, etc. It's no better on a PC.
I don't think Sony is stupid enough to repeat the mistakes of these other publishers. I'm glad the folks are Playstation are smarter than their fans.
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it's just a fact that steam provides a lot of basic functionality which is notably missing on every other PC gaming frontend. when companies like Epic make games exclusive to their tinker toy bullshit, the games are worse. remember when PS3 didn't have in-game system menus? games were better to play on Xbox 360. if you had the choice, that's where you played them. A game like Alan Wake 2 skipping Steam is a bit like if you could only get the Switch version of MK 1 on PC. i'm just not going to buy it. all these other publisher-specific stores closing is evidence that many other people don't buy it either.
Steam isn't anywhere near as good as it used to be though, the old flash sales were 100x better than the regular lackluster sales they do now. That's because of people like you cheering on a monopoly! The bigger Steam gets, the less incentive they have to actually care about anything, no wonder they're moving into hardware, so they can bolster their storefront more and continue to care even less.
He really does, and the sad part is @flaccidsnake doesn't even realize he sounds EXACTLY like typical console war fanboys, "oooh I won't buy this game because it's not on my preferred platform"
Some dude who claimed to be a big Assassin's Creed fan said he's not buying Mirage just because it isn't on Steam, that is no different than Xbox fanboys hating on FF16 just because it's PS5 timed exclusive, even though those same Xbox fanboys own a PS5 and can play it if they wanted to. PC guys are even worse though because using a different launcher is completely free, they don't have to shell out $500 to download Ubisoft Connect or Epic Game Store 
And no just because Larian devs are saying a Steam monopoly is good, doesn't automatically make it so.
He really does, and the sad part is @flaccidsnake doesn't even realize he sounds EXACTLY like typical console war fanboys, "oooh I won't buy this game because it's not on my preferred platform"
you're confused. steam is the future. every attempt to compete with steam is rubbing two sticks together.
All you do is troll on here, thats whats getting old, not proper constructive criticism and pure facts stated by fans.
Its been a long time since the talked-about industry leading games were on pc, hasnt it? valve still can't count to 3.
It's funny how they claim that Sony has to port games to PC because AAA cost is high. They think 500K copies sold in steam will make a difference for a games that sell 10+ million on Playstation.Guys and gals, I didn't think they existed, but I found one. A Valve/Steam fanboy
Kidding aside, at least you're entertaining competitors enter the space. Meaning you shouldn't be adverse to someone like Sony doing so, if they did it the right way. Even if that's an inconvenience for Steam fans like you at first, worthy competition would inherently produce better results in the long-term.
Trust me, if Sony seriously wanted to offer a competitor to Steam, they could do so and probably usurp that market like they did with the console gaming market when they entered as a platform holder there. It's just my personal POV that if they have such an interest, it's 10+ years out from now, and for the time being their overall strategy would be better off de-emphasizing platforms like Steam for anything outside of legacy/catalog remaster compilations and GaaS titles.
There would be obvious adjustments, such as accounting for no paid online for starters. You're conflating a Sony PC storefront with console PS+ and assuming no changes would be made.
Who's jealous, exactly? The Steam fanboys sniveling and crying for ports of Sony 1P games when their purchasing power can't even account for the majority of a paltry $200 million revenue from the previous FY that was carried PC-wise by Destiny 2?
It's funny how some of you want to talk facts until the data becomes inconvenient, particularly once the actual impact of PC is brought into the picture. No one here's crying for PC exclusives to come to PlayStation, which is where that 'gotcha' phrase would apply, if anywhere. Valve/Steam port-beggars are throwing flimsy reasons as to why Sony should continue the current strategy as-is or expediate the strategy, and the rest of us are just serving them with facts that wreck that idea apart.
If you want to be on the side getting a reality check on the topic, be my guest
