They absolutely would oppose them and create (or exclusively use if they don’t already have it) their own platforms. Normies will buy their ball&gun games where they are available. They probably don’t know that Steam has anything other than FIFA or whatever it’s called now.
Losing AAA games would destroy Steam. The revenue of only indie and AA games is only a small (albeit significant) portion of the total. Even the only remaining AAA games in this hypothetical scenario, Valve’s own games, would not save them.
Besides, this isn’t feasible. Either they ask publishers to remove the DRM or leave (they will leave), or they forcibly push updates with cracked executables, which is illegal and a violation of trust.
They absolutely would oppose them and create (or exclusively use if they don’t already have it) their own platforms. Normies will buy their ball&gun games where they are available. They probably don’t know that Steam has anything other than FIFA or whatever it’s called now.
Losing AAA games would destroy Steam. The revenue of only indie and AA games is only a small (albeit significant) portion of the total. Even the only remaining AAA games in this hypothetical scenario, Valve’s own games, would not save them.
Besides, this isn’t feasible. Either they ask publishers to remove the DRM or leave (they will leave), or they forcibly push updates with cracked executables, which is illegal and a violation of trust.
Yeah we already have GOG for this purpose. Valve imposing similar restrictions would be reckless.