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Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?
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Other game launchers: "fuck Linux it's so small"
Valve: "everyone deserves to play games :)"
Other game launchers: "Steam is fucking monopoly!!!"
Valve is working on linux as more of an exit strategy should MS go apeshit and go full walled garden. Their work started following MS floating ideas of a walled garden about a decade ago.
Its less “Everyone deserves to play games” and more “We gotta cover our asses”. Just that we all benefit in the end.
But Valve's “We gotta cover our asses” move is to help an open ecosystem, not try to create their own walled garden. Yes, they are a company making a rational, capitalistic decision but it's also the less lucrative but more moral decision.