Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?
LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoValve is working on linux as more of an exit strategy should MS go apeshit and go full walled garden. Their work started following MS floating ideas of a walled garden about a decade ago.
Its less “Everyone deserves to play games” and more “We gotta cover our asses”. Just that we all benefit in the end.
0x1C3B00DA@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
But Valve’s “We gotta cover our asses” move is to help an open ecosystem, not try to create their own walled garden. Yes, they are a company making a rational, capitalistic decision but it’s also the less lucrative but more moral decision.