Hey everyone! I noticed that the discussions around the recently released self-hosted alternative to Steam and Origin, have been focused on its controversial name. Let’s shift the conversation and talk about the features you would like to see or wouldn’t care about in this software.
Essential
- DRM Free
- Cloud Saves
- Compatabilty info with current system.
Nice to Have
- Save migration, pulling save files from other game platforms for titles owned on both
- Mod integration. Would be great to have this built in instead of having to go out to nexus
- External links to official wiki’s when applicable. The community guides are cool, but sometimes you just need that wiki.
Remote mounting of storage and being able to run games directly from the remote server would save a lot on local storage space.
Bandwidth to storage is going to become more and more important so I’m not keen on that.
It would be an optional feature.
How remote? Like inside my own network or across the internet?
The latter
Full Linux proton support for entire library.
An easy donate button that gives the game devs money directly and uncut.
Isn’t it called BitTorrent?
This is for organizing games not for file-sharing.
Woah! Is this the new lemmy shit-a-roo?
Woosh
I’ve not heard of this controversially named platform. What should I google?
Holy fuck, just… Why?
Edgelords be edgy.
That thread was a fun read lol
Out of everything they could have chosen, I could not have expected that. It’s a poor choice but I still laughed heartily.
Well then…
There seems to be a lot of limp-wrist ninnies there clutching their pearls because a pirated game software manager suite is called “Crackpipe”.
Holy shit, three replies in and someone is already grandstanding as some anti-racist hero by bringing up the crack epidemic.
Im a bit confused. What’s self hosted here? I download a game onto my computer from Steam, now Im self hosting it for myself. Is it someone else that’s hosting the games for download and selling them? Might be cool to pay and download games directly from a developer, if that’s at all possible from this, but thats not mentioned anywhere.
Is it just file sharing? Is that what this is?
To cut out the BS legal double speak, it’s so you can have a steam-like interface that’s designed to be natively compatible with pirated games and allow friends to access them from your server
It seems to be an application where you can access all your games at once, in the vein of steams library section. Not really interested.
but thats just basically a folder of shortcuts, my games arent in steam’s library, they’re installed on my PC. Steam is a storefront.
They described it as jellyfin but for games. Yet unlike with jellyfin where you can stream your media to any device, you just can’t do that with games. So yeah it’s basically a server to put your games on for convenient downloading to your PC, which seems utterly pointless and expensive.
Maybe there will be future features that make it useful, but I can’t currently think of a use case for this other than maybe you’re already running a torrent server and this just provides some convenience and a few QOL improvements. I can’t see regular people using this though.
If you want to stream games there is a GitHub user called Games-on-whales. He has two docker programs that are effectively a game streaming server capable of serving multiple users.
It’s not fully developed yet and I encountered a few issues while testing it, but it was very quick and easy to setup.
Self-hosted is that you install the program, what I don’t know what means is decentralized but that’s what the example called itself. It isn’t file-sharing.
Lutris is great, does that count?
If you consider that lutris is not decentralised, probably not
What a hell is this “self hosted alternative”? I you talking about pirating games??
Emulator compatibility would be great too. It’d be great to bring Steam like features to a platform that works with N64/PS2/Xbox games.
open source, preferably AGPL.
Open Source, the sweet market I really want to sell my games too
Sell?
Yes, how do you think games are made? But I have the feeling you are just about to run into the first problem this idea has.
Would be nice to have overlays and chat features similar to steam. Maybe hooking into matrix and activity pub for sharing what game and chatting with friends
I’d love to be able to cloud stream the games. But would need to lock others from cloud streaming if it’s in use, or even better, stream to both at once for split screen gaming.
I would really like if the metadata included some recipes to install the games in different systems because I find using DRM-free games on Linux much harder than on Windows. Perhaps it’s the lack of practice.
You can’t build a decentralized gaming platform similar to steam hahaha
The only thing I would remotely be interested in for the purposes of what Steam does, but on a decentralized platform, is having multiple backups in case of server outages.
Ideally, I don’t want a service like Steam at all. I just like having an off-site backup to my games. I also don’t really want to have “crack pipe download” be in my search history.
