Step up how? A brand new mobile game? Even less quality control? More hardware blunder?

I can hardly wait.

Not sure how exactly.  Again, im not a big PC gamer anymore so I couldn't tell you. 

But Steam now has more competitors whereas before they were just on their own dominating the PC market doing whatever they want.  So if Steam wants to remain dominant, they'll have to do something to keep it that way.  It's just simple business.

You're saying you don't want more launchers. But there is plenty of space left on your desktop. Besides, there aren't many gamespublisherinternetcompanies left who potentially could launch their own launcherstores. Maybe two dozens at maximum. That would only be twice as many launcherdigitaldistributiondigitalrightsmanagementstreamingsubscriptionservicestores as there are now.

A selfinflicted demise Valve is facing. In the past they could rely on convenience. To have no competent competiton in their way. With time they attracted enough developers, publishers and users granting them staying power. Meanwhile Valve itself and what made them crumbled into obscurity, halfassedness and a lets have others do the work mentality.

Just compare the SourceEngine, the career of its predecessor SourceEngine2 to Epics UnrealEngine, how they kept its success going and how they are utilizing it to bolster the EGS. It gives you an idea of what Valve could and should've done. Amongst other things...

A selfinflicted demise Valve is facing. In the past they could rely on convenience. To have no competent competiton in their way. With time they attracted enough developers, publishers and users granting them staying power. Meanwhile Valve itself and what made them crumbled into obscurity, halfassedness and a lets have others do the work mentality.

Just compare the SourceEngine, the career of its predecessor SourceEngine2 to Epics UnrealEngine, how they kept its success going and how they are utilizing it to bolster the EGS. It gives you an idea of what Valve could and should've done. Amongst other things...

Yea if you want to support the Chinese with epic game store go right ahead.  Never gave a shit about epic and quite frankly I think their name is stupid.  So epic! fucking 90s stupid shit saying or something.  Like some dork thinking he is cool by saying the word.