• Infamousblt [any]
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    1 day ago

    They won't compete with Steam because Steam is trying to master the entire digital delivery pipeline and nobody else is. Not Blizzard, not Microsoft, not Epic, not Ubisoft, not EA. Of course Valve is trying to build a platform they can profit off of, but they are doing it by mastering the entire digital delivery pipeline and treating digital delivery as a service for all parties involved rather than looking at digital delivery as a cost savings or a cost control.

    Until someone enters the market with the goal of actually improving on digital delivery, nobody will ever compete with Steam.

      • TheVelvetGentleman [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Okay, hear me out. We make a horrible UI that is infuriating to use. We implement most of the things that Steam does, and we do it poorly. We don't innovate anything; that's for idiots. Then we spend hundreds of millions of dollars getting publishers to exclusively release their games on our platform. Then we spend even more money giving away games to entice the dummies to use our garbage platform.