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Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Agreed.
Them withholding a game makes me not consider them in the future. I'd rather pirate it if they were to keep withholding it.

But I "allow" them to withhold 1st party games (or studios they aquire like Psyonix) from 3rd party stores. Same goes for Valve, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard and Microsoft.
They did the work and sure are entitled to keep it. It may not be in the interested of the consumer to have the need to install yet another launcher but it's fine.
Them buying up 3rd party releases are what I have issues with

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