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It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't. They would lose their library by switching clients.

No reason why both can’t exist

They both exists, most people would only pick one.

i manage to have netflix, disney, and prime. I'd pick one, but it's not an especially heavy lift to use the roku remote to switch from one to the other, or to youtube.

That's expensive and something that everyone hates. Everyone will want to have a single streaming service, which is why piracy is on the rise when Netflix splintered.

This is trivially false to anyone who has ever played a video game.

One doesn't "switch" clients like they do operating systems.

You can install more than one at once. They're not mutually exclusive.

People don't like more than one, they want one for everything. Isn't this hacker news where technically inclined people gather? Feature creep is the thing that most users want. They want a tool to do everything, that includes a single client!

What point are you trying to make here?

I want a million dollars and a DGX Spark. That's not a point, that's just a personal desire or opinion, which isn't an argument.

I already made my point in the first comment, people are arguing my point. What point are you trying to make?

> I already made my point in the first comment

I already explained how this is false as my point: "I want X" is not an argument. Your desire is not an argument.

Valid points include things like "I think that users should be able to pick the client that they run a game from." That is an argument.

So, again: what is your argument that you are making?

> It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't. *They would lose their library by switching clients.* <<<< THE POINT I AM POINTING TO

Are you even reading the thread?

It's already been pointed out that the entire concepts of "switching clients" is totally irrelevant here. You can run multiple clients at once. This is so simple a child can understand it, and it was already stated above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348205 - the person failing to read the thread is you.

It's really not hard to understand that if you want to keep your library, you just don't delete your Steam account.

Your "POINT I AM POINTING TO" is exactly as stupid as someone saying "if I drove my car into the river, my car would be destroyed". That's correct, and the solution is trivial: do not drive your car into the river.

Yet again, you haven't made a single coherent argument.

This need is being filled by launchers that integrate multiple libraries, so this is not a sufficient explanation.

Which is why I in a early comment said that it should be mandated to be protocol agnostic that every store implements. Kinda of USB for stores (btw, this could also be used in mobile stores as bonus points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346862

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