Value is personal, I for one want a game, I dont want a bloated web browser that only connects through steam, which is what the steam client is. All the thing I need steam to do I can do and I can do it in a more agnostic way and less bloated. I use wayland therefore steam does not run without xwayland support enabled and even when enabled I can't stream my desktop over steam remote.
Can't use remote play and have an open source implementation that has fine tuning controls.
Installing mods through third party tools or manually is easy enough and allows for multiple distributors.
Dont use vr and even so its a closed ecosystem.
More than happy to visit steam in my own browser to buy and download games if that was possible.
Dont care for skins, cards, or any of the inventory system.
I talk to friends through open source solutions.
If you do however want a streaming, mod manager, vr, forum, store front, download manager, DRM and much more in one bloated application then yes the value proposition is there.
I highly value diy solutions in software, you on the other hand may not. And this is fine. GOG offers more to me than to you as steam offers less for me than for you.
all of the things you have listed are things we as individuals can and have implemented without steam, theyre pretty good like adding code to wine and pushing linux to the larger audience and i myself have been on steam for 11 years with 320 games, but integrated modding? i mean we had mod managers before steams implementation.
game streaming we have moonlite and shunshine > for amd hosts, and theres more.
input remapping can be done through standalone applications i use sc-controller for remapping my steam controller.
id say steams vr client is more of a negative than a positive, leads to segmentation and issues with device support when we should of focused on a wide approach to vr. like what google did with android, funded a free and open eco-system>(less so now)
steam sells accessibility and DRM, personally i see this as a bad thing. force people to become dependent. and while gog isnt natively on linux there are work around like downloading from gog.com or installing heroic games launcher.
No I wouldn't either and the place was a dive but the meat wasn't being sold for the pub to serve, police went in there trying to sell to anyone that would buy, the land lady just happened to be the one interested in buying the stollen meat
I had that before adding the last bit ("bias of your training"), chatgpt is strange, someone else posted a screenahot of a capitalist bias with a similar question just formated differently
Can't read this, 5 paragraph down and ive had to stop, in general I see humanity as mostly good but this is sickening, and I forget we share this planet with scum
Openai own and trained chatgpt so poisoning to fit capitalist sentiment, also asking the same question to my self hosted ai has a capitalist bias, I had assumed was due to bias media
im actually down for this lol