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Gabe Newell ordered to make in-person deposition for Valve v. Wolfire Games lawsuit (web.archive.org)
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[–] [email protected] 96 points 10 months ago (49 children)

They have a monopoly but that's because they're just the best service. It's not just that they were the first, they're just consistently the best. Everybody who has spun up another ancillary launcher and DRM service has always made an inferior product to Valve's.

Epic games bribes you with free games, launched without a functioning cart, and hoovers your data.

EA has gone through Origin and the EA app, both of which are awful; Origin being the butt of jokes for years and the EA app being an unstable piece of garbage that logs you out every day with "a particularly annoying bug".

Ubisoft. Self explanatory.

I could keep going on, but Valve earned their position in the market. Could they reduce the cut and still exist with a good profit? Absolutely, but that's the only thing I'd really want them to change - treat the devs a bit more fairly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (13 children)

hoovers your data

Any way to limit this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

on windows, you can disable the epic games service in the services tab of task manager. it wont stop all the snoop but will limited epic games reach.

I run a bat file on start up to kill a number of services. EA Games and Rockstar games also does this.

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