Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 1 day agoSure 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.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 12 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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
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.