… the ability to continually comment on other people’s Steam reviews.
I think by default the option is disabled, but it’s just excellent that it offers such a feature at all. You can’t even do this in Google Maps, Google Play, Walmart, Amazon, or Target, or almost any other platform. But on Steam, unlike GOG, Itch, or other platforms of which I know, you can have an entire conversation with the reviewer about the validity or details concerning their review, where you can flesh out, “Hey, this person actually has no idea of what they’re talking about,” or, “Hmm, this is actually a valid point that I hadn’t considered before,” and even defend the reviewer from other critics in the comments.
I still get concerned about Steam’s incredible dominion over digital games today, but it also blows my mind why other platforms don’t try to copy even just some of its elements more.
Steam is only a monopoly by technicality. It isnt Steam’s fault that all the other competition is literal trash compared to Steam. Except maybe GOG, but they don’t typically offer the kinds of games I would buy on Steam. I only buy DRM-free games on GOG, if it has DRM I just buy it on Steam.
Sandwiches would have a food monopoly by technicality if the other options were 3 week old poached eggs and dog feces. That’s not sandwiches fault, and sandwiches shouldn’t be forced to sell less so more people are coerced into eating the other two options that suck.