Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year

• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No.

  As a person who resisted hars 20 years ago, they earned it. I didn’t get used to it, I found value. In cloud saves, in steam sales, in no pushy advertising, and so on.

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They failed at first attempt with steamOS, but they learned the lesson, and came back swinging with years of preparation.

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My husband remembers buying The Ship in a store, and when he went to install it out said he had to install something called Steam for the multiplayer. He was baffled and annoyed.

    Now all the games we have save a few from GOG are steam.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some games are bought directly from the developer too.

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  • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah the steam “sales” that cost more than used physical games because valve killed them.

    The steam cult among PC gamers is fucking absurd.

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• bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure they didn’t change much if you ignored all the improvements they made to the platform.

  If they didn’t the other competitors wouldn’t be irrelevant today.

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  • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They literally cornered the digital sales market from the very beginning with HL2. It has nothing to do with “improvements to the platform”. By the time other companies had the infrastructure to try to catch up it was far too late. If you wanted to sell a PC game digitally, you had to do it on steam.

    So much ridiculous counterfactual revisionist history in this thread.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By the time other companies had the infrastructure to try to catch up

      How many years did it take epic to implement a shopping cart for their store? It’s so horrible they’re scrapping it and rebuilding from scratch. Almost a decade and they couldn’t get the basics right.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They haven’t changed much? They have like literally a million more games available on their store now.

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  • creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The basic principle is the same: a DRM-enabled online store, and more often than not the only source for certain games, a monopoly.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DRM is not required by Steam. Developers choose to add it.

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      • creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No difference from a customer perspective.

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    • locahosr443@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And with those resources they decided to make a huge long term investment in making PC gaming on windows optional, then even the worse experience. Don’t see that loser Tim sweeny doing anything of that value… It’s not exactly a monopoly either… You can install any other available store on your pc, unlike consoles. More competition would be great but steams market share was earned in an environment that wasn’t a walled garden.

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