Steam and GOG remain largely what Netflix once was, a one-stop shop for their media landscape.
When the TV/Movie industries all decided they wanted to hold onto their own properties it wrecked the value to the end user and resulted in the clusterfuck that video streaming has become.
These game publishers would do well to not repeat that same mistake. That so many of the launcher front ends allow you to interconnect with other services speaks to people wanting that unified portal, it just happens to be that Steam was one of the first to get it right.
I’ll still stick primarily with GOG for their DRM free stance, but if that wasn’t available I’d take Steam over a dozen different vendors to keep track of.
More games should release on gog. That’s the only other platform which I will willingly buy from
Billionaires are a threat to us all (including themselves and their families).
He’s not technically wrong, though the ability to buy on mobile and consoles doesn’t necessarily mean there’s adequate competition on PC.
There are other store fronts for PC but they either:
- Suck more
- Don’t have the games I want to play
At what point is it Steam’s fault that other options are worse?
“It’s unfair that you’re offering a better product that makes people prefer your storefront to other options” is definitely a weird argument to make.
