![]() ![]() I do believe in their revenue split, and I want all storefronts to adopt that where possible as devs should be paid for their hard work. With regards to your other question, I've mentioned it a lot before but quick summary is yes the exclusivity is something I disagree heavily with unless fully funded by the storefront or their own first party game. That is why you have things like this Steam Spring Cleaning, advocating to play your old games at the touch of a button due to digital nature. Like with this sale, digital just provides an ease of access unlike physical but that isn't against physical as I buy such for my Switch because prices are cheaper. Many builds don't even factor in DVD players anymore and I stopped considering it when making one around 2008. So while that's debatable these are really monopolies, I think that's what people mean when they say monopoly, you *have* to be in their ecco system.Īnd I also think that's why people like to shill for the Epic store, it's "competition" the worst possible competition imaginable, but still competition - with the same policies and goals as Steam ironically.Ĭlick to shrink.Just a change of a digital future that PC gaming took. You don't buy a"Steam PC", you just buy a PC (which does come with some limited choices admittedly ) Kinda like Sony has a "monopoly" on Sony games and likewise Microsoft with "Xbox" games.Īlso it's different with consoles, you buy a *Sony* console and expect it only playing *Sony* games (which is true, they all say Sony regardless of dev or publisher) Steam does have a DRM monopoly, you can only play many of the popular games using Steam as a platform, there is no choice at all.If you don't download their client, and make a "Steam account" you're screwed. ![]() It's true that Steam doesn't have a monopoly in the conventional sense, you can buy "Steam games" wherever and Steam doesn't see a cent (not 100% sure) but. Such assertion is wrong and I am correcting you on it.Ĭlick to shrink.I've been thinking about that. That is not a monopoly, at all, because PC games have been basically disc-less for a good few years and that it isn't just Steam but everybody else who has ever released a physical game from their storefront. ![]() I'm not being condescending, just correcting your proposition that a monopoly with regards to Steam is because physical copies of PC games have a Steam code. It is in the same vein as me not buying anything on Epic Store because I dislike their capitalistic practices and their literal monopoly tactics despite claiming to be anti-Steam "monopoly" over and over. That is just a person's buying choice as their right to do so gives them. As has been discussed so much with the rise of Epic but it necessitates continual discussion over and over.Īlso a person's opinion of buying on one platform over another doesn't constitute a monopoly. ![]() A monopoly in typical business terms is a company who owns all avenues and has no competition, where that is not true because anyone can go against them. Developers have chosen in the past to put their games on Steam regularly due to the larger market, but it isn't stopping them going elsewhere and in fact that is shown as the case with other storefronts. Steam is not a literal monopoly, so then why say it is a monopoly but not literally? You can't figuratively state something while intending it to be literal. Such assertion is wrong and I am correcting you on it. Click to shrink.I'm not being condescending, just correcting your proposition that a monopoly with regards to Steam is because physical copies of PC games have a Steam code. ![]()
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