i mean, sure, they can, but they will get angry emails from Valve
So? Maybe they should put more focus on improving their own platforms instead of whining about Steam, then they could sell their game exclusively there without issue.
I don’t know I can make it any clearer; Steam has a big market share because people choose them, not because they use any hostile tactics to push out the others. Ubisoft and EA, among others, have for years done everything in their power to lose any good will from the player base in favor of their shareholders.
Correction: Steam has the largest market share because for majority of it’s existence, it had no competition. It already became a standart before others appeared. That being said, Valve has increasingly become evil during the past decade. I was fully on board with supporting valve, but not fixing fees, supporting and defending gambling, inventing subscription passes, supporting in-app purchases, abandoning games and not using their ridiculous money to develop things people want like Half-Life 3 (don’t even get me started on TF2 mess, almost entire community holds grudge against Valve for enshittifying it like a corporation that only cares about profits). Sure, Valve also does some things that are great for gamers, but I feel like it’s our duty as a society to keep these companies in check, otherwise it’s a slippery slope where if they’re no longer being held accountable for shitty things they do, it will become a normality.
I’m seeing some parallels to Elon Musk where everyone was praising him as an anti-corporate dude who’s going to save everyone from oil or whatever, while few guys were screaming about red flags they’re seeing, but everyone ridiculed them
So? Maybe they should put more focus on improving their own platforms instead of whining about Steam, then they could sell their game exclusively there without issue.
I don’t know I can make it any clearer; Steam has a big market share because people choose them, not because they use any hostile tactics to push out the others. Ubisoft and EA, among others, have for years done everything in their power to lose any good will from the player base in favor of their shareholders.
Correction: Steam has the largest market share because for majority of it’s existence, it had no competition. It already became a standart before others appeared. That being said, Valve has increasingly become evil during the past decade. I was fully on board with supporting valve, but not fixing fees, supporting and defending gambling, inventing subscription passes, supporting in-app purchases, abandoning games and not using their ridiculous money to develop things people want like Half-Life 3 (don’t even get me started on TF2 mess, almost entire community holds grudge against Valve for enshittifying it like a corporation that only cares about profits). Sure, Valve also does some things that are great for gamers, but I feel like it’s our duty as a society to keep these companies in check, otherwise it’s a slippery slope where if they’re no longer being held accountable for shitty things they do, it will become a normality.
I’m seeing some parallels to Elon Musk where everyone was praising him as an anti-corporate dude who’s going to save everyone from oil or whatever, while few guys were screaming about red flags they’re seeing, but everyone ridiculed them