Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026

• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They did.

      They don’t need to anymore because they killed the market of physical discs for PC games.

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      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I ask again: Where did you get that idea from? Any source other than “trust me bro” statement? Valve did not, unless you can proof your extraordinary claim with an extraordinary source.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Got a source on them paying publishers for that?

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  • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Publishers used Steam for physical releases because Valve takes no fee for CD keys, so it was cheaper for them.

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