Remind me, which store is paying publishers for exclusivity?
Comment on Steam keeps on winning
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Isn’t… This what a monopoly is?
Why are we celebrating that?
IDeserveToBeLoved@szmer.info 6 months ago
Muscar@discuss.online 6 months ago
It’s not a monopoly in the way that valve has does bad things to keep it that way, just that every other try has so far failed. Nothing has been close to as good as steam, and probably never will. GOG is good but they’re not directly competing in the same way.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yup, gog and steam are my 2 preferred platforms. Same_but_different.gif
mriormro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No? You can still buy these publisher’s games from them if you prefer and, as far as I’m aware, steam doesn’t have any stipulations that state once you sell on their platform that you can’t do so on others. In fact, that’s what these publisher’s tried to do. They thought they could easily build their own competing storefronts and reap the money. And, as the article says, they’re now crawling back. Turns out, Valve is pretty good at content delivery while remaining relatively consumer friendly.
More people should look up what a monopoly is before hosing everything with that label.