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.

  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Well, hold on. Why shouldnt we rely on pirates for preservation?

    Valve is the only major PC game store that isnt public. Possibly the only PC store period, tho I dont know that for a fact for the smaller distributors. The private nature is why they currently operate as the best option for users, and the odds of the other stores going private is basically zero. So when valve shifts winds, they will be the end of an era.

    Do you expect us to be able to request or rely on public companies to ever do better for game preservation and user to user trade than a private company does? You already arent pleased with valves stance, and there is no indication anyone will ever do better than them.

    Who else would ever do better? Pirates are the best option.

      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Ok, but thats still also not about steam. Steam is a store, but they dont make much product. Game devs do that.

        Game devs are the ones no longer making physical copies of their games. We should be pushing for the producers of games to be offering these.