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.
Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year
creamfresh@lemmy.world 19 hours agoThe basic principle is the same: a DRM-enabled online store, and more often than not the only source for certain games, a monopoly.
locahosr443@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
DRM is not required by Steam. Developers choose to add it.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No difference from a customer perspective.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Thats like blaming the hotel because your vacation had bad weather.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
More like blaming the traveling platform when all hotels use a crappy feature they provide and no one asked for.