Why will not the new Steam Chat seduce PC gamers?

Valve pushed the new Steam Chat to all users yesterday and it's pretty awesome! The redesigned client no longer feels like an ICQ clone of the turn of the century. Instead, the new Steam Chat scans an awful batch of Discord, the supercharged communications software that storms the gaming world. But for all the new features, Steam Chat is not going to win entrenched players from Discord, and the reason why is right there in the name. That's Steam Cat

In most aspects, Valve's updated chat client is just as polite as Discord now. You can easily create persistent group conversations that behave in the same way as Discord servers, and separate subchannels for text or voice at all times in these conversations. You can also view GIF files, YouTube videos, Tweets, and other rich text links in the chat. Your friends can be grouped by game or favorites, and their status can show more detailed information about what they do in a game if the developers support it. So yes, the new Steam Chat is that is Discord, but in Steam.

It's too late for the party, though. We Tasted Liberty

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Steam is perhaps the 800-pound gorilla of PC, but it is far from being a monopoly. These days, your friends are just as likely to hang out on Battle.net or Uplay, or in the free-lancers of League of Legends and Fortnite . Discord shows you when your friends are online in any game – even Xbox Live games! – and not just Steam titles. You can talk with your friends even if you all play on different platforms.