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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
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So are we pissed at the entire industry, or just Steam? You don't have the liberty to buy anything from wherever you want. Go download Fortnite from Steam, buddy! Oop! It ain't there!? Here's hoping he deleted the rest of his online accounts while he was at it, but online blowhards tend to be hypocrites.
You're only underscoring Kaldaien's point about Steam by bringing up Fortnite, given that Epic is willing to release their products on other stores, whether it's mobile or Microsoft Store on PC, as long as the terms are reasonable, not junk fees, as Sweeney puts it.
^ Mental gymnastics
The inverse is also true. Go buy Half Life on Origin. Can't? Oh no! Monopoly! blows siren
Yes, Valve is quite consistent about keeping things locked to its store. Steamworks is also limited to Steam. Proton is an exception, but the LGPL license of Wine simply wouldn't allow it to be otherwise. Publishing the source code is required if building on it rather than just using it as a component.