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At the same time people on here are defending the centralization of PC gaming on Steam so even fediverse users don't understand decentralization
How do you imagine decentralized gaming? Every game comes with it's own launcher?
Every game tied to it's own console.
Unironically I would buy a UFO 50 console
My fantasy is that PC games become similar to roms, where it's a single file. Maybe encoded is the system specs, OS, etc.
Then the "emulator" just works.
Of course, no financial incentives and a lot of work just to exist. Not to mention, it'll be impossible to do for modern games. But maybe every game that's older than 10 years old gets this treatment.
Also I'm not a OS engineer and maybe this is what Proton is doing with Linux.
Then pure decentralized gaming on any OS - computer, browser, raspberry pi, "smart Fridge", whatever has the specs. And the game just works.
I think will be something more like gog or itch io
What makes either of those decentralized?
I think people just prefer Steam to Epic or EA's store fronts. Whenever GoG gets brought up, the only major complaint is is that there's no official Linux launcher, even when there are Linux binaries for the games.
GOG's Windows launcher is bad so it's not really a big loss. Heroic Launcher is excellent and supports more than just GOG