And Rami is correct as usual, I'm glad that we have people like him in the industry that don't just say what Gamers want to hear. And he does this continuously, from his points on inclusitivity to this here. Fight on, Rami. Your design talks were great, even if your games aren't my cup of tea :(
It's wild that it is ~anti-consumer~ to not be 100% pro Steam, when it's not epic that's anti-consumer-like-me. The one that is is...Steam, on a very consistent basis. Well, and Gog, but those I cut out, too.
That said, use itch over Epic if you can.
"Why don't you want to use worse software instead of better software?"
"Why do you want to support people that promote gaybashing dictators, rape lovers and homophobes?"
A puzzle.
The miniscule improvements a launcher has mean little for me, when one platform has hate groups gaming the system to punish devs of games with queer/poc content, when the platform pushes rape sims, gaybashing sims, or outright propaganda games for southamerican (and, of course, gaybashing) dictators.
And when rape sims have an easier time being featured on steam than queer ones. Kinda weird, that.
Easy to fix, mind. Steam could kick user Reviews out, as they started consider doing, and they could maybe apply the standards they apply to queer games also to nazi and rape games. This is really asking for the absolute minimum standards of basic decency, it's not exactly *much*.
Note I didn't ask to apply common sense moderation to the userbase (which would get half the userbase banned from the forums for hate speech) or anything *drastic* like, I don't know, removing reviews filled with hate speech or blatant lies.
Surely, "Okay, maybe let's not have the rape game and the game where Bolsonero kills gays and minorities" aren't impossibly high standards to ask for ;) They're very tiny steps.
Really: If your platform has "we only remove games that don't work or are trolling", isn't it very telling that a rape glorification game is somehow not considered "trolling" towards women immediately?