Remember that you are on Lemmy: a decentralized and open source platform owned by the community.

Steam is a proprietary, closed source, for profit third party software launcher owned by a billionaire.

Only beef I have with steam off the top of my head.

1. Make it so I OWN my games if a dev isn't okay with that they can sell somewhere else.

2. Reverse you decision on steam account not being transferreable/inheritable

Probably others but those are the two I think of.

alright, lets compare game platforms(this may contain Opinions).

1. Steam, probably the only good platform on here(also some stupendous features like a clock/alarm,note taking,browser,etc), but people should remember they are a monopoly(not the worse monopoly i have seen, look at something like Google or Microsoft), and they are still AAA company(Gabe Newell is a billionaire and the 106 richest man according to Forbes).
2. GOG(why is it not being shown in the meme), Dont like their stance on being Pro-AI(if the LLMS was only used on One banner or smth or it had a fair reasoning, i would have been content with LLM usage.) and subpar features(maybe?),no DRM guarantee is nice.
   but i like their program where they make older games Legally playable(IIRC Steam used to do the same?).
3. Ubisoft store,EA Store,Epic Games Store,Microsoft Store(due to Xbox logo),itch.io. they all have subpar features, and am pretty sure itch.io has more of a focus on UGC content.
4. Console(Playstation,Nintendo,Xbox): I personally dont like the Video Game choice, and paying for a sub to play online.

i know there is stuff like DLSite aswell,but i never used them(the only Video Game franchise i know that sells there is Touhou Project)

people fellating valve will never get less disgusting. have some shame and self respect.

Leave the multi billion dollar corporation alone

STOP giving the COnsuMer WHAt they WANTTTTT!!!!!NOOOOOOOO MY SLOPCORE BUSINESS CANT COMPETE WITH ACTUAL GOODS AND SERVICES.

Doesn’t matter how you got there, if you have become a monopoly you should be brought low.

Valve does a lot of things pretty badly, it's just that they and the fans control the narrative.