Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Competition for the sake of competition isn’t intrinsically a good thing.

    Seems to me, most of the people complaining about Steam are greedy devs who want to make more money off of their products.

    For me, as a user, that’s not my concern. For me, as a user, it’s more important that I can play games without having to download different launchers just to make someone else richer.

    GOG is probably the only legitimate competitor with Steam. They provide value to customers instead of just themselves or greedy devs.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      For me, as a user, that’s not my concern. For me, as a user, it’s more important that I can have my convenience

      FTFY

      Also, the only truly bad competition is subsidized competition. As long as it’s not surviving on some kind of grant or funding, instead of its actual market value, then it’s always a good thing as it keeps competitors on their toes.

      • Thirdborne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Listen. Some of us have our life savings in our Steam library. If competition ever drives Steam bankrupt, we go down with the ship! We take Steam’s health personally and very seriously. Your mumbo jumbo about competition doesn’t factor into it.