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.
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
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.
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