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Steam is a ticking time bomb. (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Gem@lemmynsfw.com to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

x86 accelerator

Why? Steam isn't all that heavy, so it should run just fine through Rosetta.

The bigger problem is getting games to support macOS, which:

uses a different CPU arch in newer hw
uses a different graphics API
has very few users who want to play games
doesn't seem to reach out to game devs
can't be packaged into an interesting form factor (e.g. handheld PCs)

It would make more sense for Valve to court mobile users than macOS. It would also be a lot easier to use a VM, though performance would probably suck.