I’ve had steam since HL2 launched.

No it hasnt.

and no, it wasnt a storefront then either, because it was DRM/game decrypter and multiplayer server finder. They had no other games for sale at the time.

Steam, as a program, has fundamentally gotten worse with every update ever since they switched to electron/chromium

remember for a while they tried to take small mode away from us.

cause they are going down the same route that everything goes. Its gotten popular, so now they are trying to turn it into a social media platform.

I dont want a social media playform. theres already enough of those. I just want a small, slick, low resource, easy to use, quick to load program to buy my games and launch them.

i hope it finally fixes the bug that makes steam have alzheimers when it comes to windows size and position.

because I’m sick to fucking death of having to constantly resize and reposition the windows every time i switch between small/large and when launching.

Its so bad that I gave up and just started browsing steam store via browser.

what kind of sane person is gonna leave a steam page open for over a week, though?

if you have had a humble choice subscription for a while, you probably already own it without realizing too

i bought this game so long ago, and i keep forgetting i own it until something like this pops up like once every couple years.

Hope that also fixes the system wanting to use the PS5 controller as the default sound output device.

Cause that one threw me for a fuckin loop trying to figure out why my audio stopped workin

Honestly.

The biggest threat to Nintendo is no one but Nintendo.

because Nintendo has done more harm to their brand in the past 20 years with their cockheaded fucking behavior than any vaguely inspired game, knockoff, or anything else.

between their bullshit where they would file DCMAs against people who streamed nintendo games unless they gave half the money to nintendo

to their bullshit overuse of lawyers to the point they ended up DMCAing themselves over some people getting hold of…tears of the kingdom? i think it was, a day or two early.

And lets not forget just how shit and phoned in their core titles like pokemon have become.

Its about practicality.

Even big studios cant handle supporting a native linux version and having it run well while supporting windows versions… which usually ends up with people running the windows version via proton over the native version (Looking at you, Cities Skylines, Truck Simulator games, and more)

So I would say take the easy route and develop for windows with checks to make sure it runs okay in proton, probably a lot less headache and effort than trying to create a seperate native linux codebase.