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Re:Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now S... by throw10920 on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:48PM (#50348205)
This is trivially false to anyone who has ever played a video game.

One doesn't "switch" clients like they do operating systems.

You can install more than one at once. They're not mutually exclusive.

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Re:Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now S... by braiamp on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:39AM (#50350284)
People don't like more than one, they want one for everything. Isn't this hacker news where technically inclined people gather? Feature creep is the thing that most users want. They want a tool to do everything, that includes a single client!
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Re:Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now S... by Timon3 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:01AM (#50351488)
This need is being filled by launchers that integrate multiple libraries, so this is not a sufficient explanation.
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Re:Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now S... by braiamp on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:30AM (#50351754)
Which is why I in a early comment said that it should be mandated to be protocol agnostic that every store implements. Kinda of USB for stores (btw, this could also be used in mobile stores as bonus points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346862

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Re:Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now S... by throw10920 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:29AM (#50353235)
What point are you trying to make here?

I want a million dollars and a DGX Spark. That's not a point, that's just a personal desire or opinion, which isn't an argument.

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