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Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved (www.gamereactor.eu)

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 months ago

And while many like our Steam benevolent (almost) monopoly, I do wonder how would the market look like if we had 20 competing companies that cannot gain more than 5% of the market share. Can you imagine the competition between them and how would that benefit us, the consumer?

More comptetion wouldn't just benefit consumers, it would benefit devs. A dev could shop their game around go with a store front that suits their needs better.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

If I'm going to need to install several different clients/launcher on my computer just to keep up with where games get published, I'll just resort to piracy.

Being forced to install some shitty client to run a specific game has been a deal breaker for me in the past. And there is no guarantee that other "competing" platforms will bother making Linux versions of their clients.

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