I wouldn’t say they’re “crawling back to Steam”, not like they’ve ever left. This is clearly for their new Handheld/Big Screen UI. They’re seeing the success of Steam Deck and Steam OS and are trying to build a competitive experience on Windows.
Don’t forget they have their own gaming overlay(win+G while in game)
It’s arguably garbage. Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
I’m not going to proselytise, I’m just pointing out that it was one of the factors that helped the decision to fully switch easier for me personally to make.
Is that all.
The game recorder is not bad.
Many other factors have been shittier imo. Like forcing online authentication so they can steal your content, & scan it and sell thr profile. with crap like onedrive, edge and every other pointless services you dont want but generates money for Microsoft.
Top it off the list of people they sell your data to includes but is not limitted to:
- data brokers (onsell to anyone including criminals)
- anyone with a credit card
- criminals
- foreign states
Is that all.
Nope, see the second sentence of the comment you’re replying to:
Game Overlay was just one of a long list of things shoved down my throat by M$ that eventually culminated in my wiping my windows partitions, and fully moving to Linux.
That’s it, they’re making Games for Linux Live now.
Not on MY distro they’re not! 🤮
It doesn’t break things like other overlays in my experience, but it also doesn’t provide anything I want.
Fair. My main issue, beyond it just not providing any benefit to me at all, was not being able to get it to fuck off and stay fucked off. Like OneDrive. Why the fuck is everything automatically installing and saving to the OneDrive folder? To try and force it down my throat, and M$ can fuck themselves with a rusty cleaver for the displeasure.
If the next Xbox home console is running full-ass Windows instead of a walled DRM garden, and then they partner with Steam for easy swapping between the “Xbox/Gamepass” UI and Steam Big Picture, that’s the best console. As in, like best console ever.
