Decent doesn’t mean it is not a monopoly.
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Quokka@quokk.au 2 months agoIt’s less the power of monopoly and more the power of the only decent platform.
richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 months ago
After killing the competition with exclusivity deals and shoehorning itself into physical copies as DRM.
I know you weren’t born when that happened, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Steam / Valve doesn’t do exclusivity deals.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except they kinda did.
They pay publishers to use Steam as DRM for physical releases.
If you wanted to play the game on PC, you needed Steam.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Where do you get that Valve pays publishers to use Steam as DRM? And therefore forces them a kind of exclusivity deal? No, Valve does not do that.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Got a source on them paying publishers for that?
doublah@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Publishers used Steam for physical releases because Valve takes no fee for CD keys, so it was cheaper for them.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Steam is great and I love what they’re bringing.
Still I’m trying to buy 50% of my games on GOG because no monopoly is good and Steam still has DRM’s and no real transparency about it.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Optional drm. Its the developers fault if there’s no transparency. Valve doesn’t enforce any drm on any game sold on steam. Its entirely and only the devs choice.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes I know but it would be nice to be able to know directly from Steam if a game is DRM Free or not.