Letting predators put themselves in spaces exclusively inhabited by children by tricking the age identification system is the one thing we didn’t want to happen

Other companies do the exact same though, Nintendo controllers don’t support non-Nintendo devices (although they’ve been reverse-engineered for Steam and Linux).

You don’t have to play every game through Steam, switch to the controller action set in desktop mode and and it’ll work as a basic controller for any game.

All of the Steam Controller’s actually distinguishing features wouldn’t work with XInput though. If you’re not interested in that stuff you’d save money going for a basic Xbox controller or third party one.

I imagine it’s like the Deck where desktop mode has 2 modes so you can switch to use it for non-Steam games.

Eh, even if PC/component sales drop to zero, PC will still be the biggest platform with hundreds of millions of active users.

So you paid for them on PS5 but pirated them on PC? Great job telling Sony you don’t want PC versions.

It’s interesting how people ascribe a game or series’ failure to whenever they became disinterested in it. Saints Row 3 and 4 were the best selling games on the franchise.

The problem is these stores (Epic but also the Microsoft Store and Amazon’s PC game store) only come along because some executive says “hey what if instead of Valve taking a cut from most PC games, we took a cut from most PC games”, there’s 0 interest or intent for them to be competition (as seen by the exclusives) for Steam or improve the developer/user experience.

Any time these massive companies offer a cheaper subsidised alternative to any existing product it’s to push out the smaller players with less resources and build their own monopoly.