Paid product? I’m not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.
That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed
Submitted 1 year ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 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 work.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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 1 year ago
I’ve installed it on a Chimera machine also via Decky so I don’t think it’s distro specific.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
watch the reason be epic and/or gog not wanting their stores to be thought of as ‘junk’
ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Heroic Launcher works fine for me. What those others launchers do?
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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 1 year 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 year ago
What are you referring to? Because in this case Steam would be getting a certain amount once for you to be able to playing hundreds or thousands of games on another platform
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.