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Why no open source Steam clients? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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There are open source clients for Epic Games Store and GOG.COM, why not for Steam too?

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Seems like a pretty big project to hook all of the different parts together.

Not what I would call huge, but big enough to be a real time investment, and nobody wants to spend that much of their life reverse engineering and building such a thing only to have it broken whenever Valve changes something.

That, I believe, is why we have no open source Steam clients.