Correction: Steam has the largest market share because for majority of it’s existence, it had no competition. It already became a standart before others appeared. That being said, Valve has increasingly become evil during the past decade. I was fully on board with supporting valve, but not fixing fees, supporting and defending gambling, inventing subscription passes, supporting in-app purchases, abandoning games and not using their ridiculous money to develop things people want like Half-Life 3 (don’t even get me started on TF2 mess, almost entire community holds grudge against Valve for enshittifying it like a corporation that only cares about profits). Sure, Valve also does some things that are great for gamers, but I feel like it’s our duty as a society to keep these companies in check, otherwise it’s a slippery slope where if they’re no longer being held accountable for shitty things they do, it will become a normality.
I’m seeing some parallels to Elon Musk where everyone was praising him as an anti-corporate dude who’s going to save everyone from oil or whatever, while few guys were screaming about red flags they’re seeing, but everyone ridiculed them
I mean, there is only other platform that functions like steam (Epic store) because GoG focuses on DRM-free games, which is better than Steam pushing for DRMs.
That being said, Epic lowered the fees and showed steam what’s a reasonable tax (I’m sure you’ve heard about Epic v Apple). Sure, they’re not as feature rich as they’re quite new, but you cannot deny the fact that both GoG and Epic does some things that are great for us, customers.
If you’re a developer, then yes, you make more money for your work. Whether the developer takes the extra money or makes the game cheaper, is not really in Epic’s control.
Exactly. The publishers want to satisfy their shareholders by forcing Steam to lower their fee. Instead of just, I don’t know, release a competitor? Polish up Uplay and sell games from other developers too. Bam, fixed it.
Instead of just, I don’t know, release a competitor
And now we’ve gone full circle and came back to Valve anti-trust practices, the ongoing lawsuits and their status of near monopoly. Like, you literally cannot do that if you want to sell your games on steam too.
Yeah, if you want to sell on THEIR platform then follow THEIR rules. Like wtf?
I don’t think I’m capable of convincing you that this is anti-trust competition practice enabled by near monopoly, which is bad. You would not get such stupid rules from Epic or GoG.
I guess the only thing I can say is that be glad that current CEO of valve isn’t as bad as other CEOs, but it won’t stay like that and it feels like we’re slowly creating a monster. All corporations, without exclusions, should be kept in check
Correction: Steam has the largest market share because for majority of it’s existence, it had no competition. It already became a standart before others appeared. That being said, Valve has increasingly become evil during the past decade. I was fully on board with supporting valve, but not fixing fees, supporting and defending gambling, inventing subscription passes, supporting in-app purchases, abandoning games and not using their ridiculous money to develop things people want like Half-Life 3 (don’t even get me started on TF2 mess, almost entire community holds grudge against Valve for enshittifying it like a corporation that only cares about profits). Sure, Valve also does some things that are great for gamers, but I feel like it’s our duty as a society to keep these companies in check, otherwise it’s a slippery slope where if they’re no longer being held accountable for shitty things they do, it will become a normality.
I’m seeing some parallels to Elon Musk where everyone was praising him as an anti-corporate dude who’s going to save everyone from oil or whatever, while few guys were screaming about red flags they’re seeing, but everyone ridiculed them
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I mean, there is only other platform that functions like steam (Epic store) because GoG focuses on DRM-free games, which is better than Steam pushing for DRMs.
That being said, Epic lowered the fees and showed steam what’s a reasonable tax (I’m sure you’ve heard about Epic v Apple). Sure, they’re not as feature rich as they’re quite new, but you cannot deny the fact that both GoG and Epic does some things that are great for us, customers.
Games are surely cheaper on Epic then since they take a smaller cut? Right? Right…? Since they do it for us.
Edit: I deleted my previous comment because I felt done with this conversation. Apparently I’m not.
If you’re a developer, then yes, you make more money for your work. Whether the developer takes the extra money or makes the game cheaper, is not really in Epic’s control.
Exactly. The publishers want to satisfy their shareholders by forcing Steam to lower their fee. Instead of just, I don’t know, release a competitor? Polish up Uplay and sell games from other developers too. Bam, fixed it.
And now we’ve gone full circle and came back to Valve anti-trust practices, the ongoing lawsuits and their status of near monopoly. Like, you literally cannot do that if you want to sell your games on steam too.
Yeah, if you want to sell on THEIR platform then follow THEIR rules. Like wtf?
Like a said in another reply, Steam has a “monopoly” because 1. Players choose it, and 2. Publishers keep selling there.
If you can’t sell your game solely on your own platform, then maybe there’s a problem with YOUR PRODUCT.
I don’t think I’m capable of convincing you that this is anti-trust competition practice enabled by near monopoly, which is bad. You would not get such stupid rules from Epic or GoG.
I guess the only thing I can say is that be glad that current CEO of valve isn’t as bad as other CEOs, but it won’t stay like that and it feels like we’re slowly creating a monster. All corporations, without exclusions, should be kept in check