A few days ago I wrote about the Junk Store coming to Steam, a special plugin for Steam Deck to bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility unofficially - but it seems to be a short lived idea.
It is already available as a free and open source plugin for the Decky Loader plugin system, but this was going to be completely standalone, and a paid product for the convenience of just having it right on Steam.
Even though Valve had clearly reviewed the Steam page, and so would have seen what it actually was to even allow the page to go live, it seems Valve may have backtracked on that. It's not clear though if this was done by Valve, or by the developer, the Steam page is just gone. Looking on SteamDB the note mentions "This app has been retired and is no longer available on the Steam store."
Pictured - Junk Store
Perhaps not really surprising. While Valve do allow a lot of weird stuff on their store, a launcher that has a primary purpose of launching other games from other stores might have been a bridge too far.
I've reached out to both Valve and the Junk Store developers to find out exactly what happened, and will update if I get any reply from either party.
Update - 16/10/2024 - 07:20 UTC: the Junk Store developers posted on Reddit that it was Valve who took it down. It was taken down not due to the Epic or GOG features, but specifically because it modifies Steam itself.
Here's what Valve support said to them:
Quoting: klhQuoting: basedThat's not how the world works, easier access being sold is still access being sold.
It also doesn't work the way you seem to think it does. It's not access that's sold, it's a client. Do you think Google can sue Hey for "selling access" to GMail?
First time hearing of Hey, from what I can find out it's an email service? Gmail (as well as every other email service probably) allows you to get/send email from other client software. Mainly used for Thunderbird/Outlook but gmail too allows you to get emails from other services in itself, is that the feature you mean? That feature was required in the early 90s & earlier, for email services didnt have webpages back then, and that feature stuck over time. Mainly thanks to Outlook probanly
No company in their right mind would allow a store to have paid access and not see a dime from it.
Last edited by based on 18 October 2024 at 10:40 am UTC
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