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An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

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An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month ago

A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

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In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?

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More like “what Steam did not do better than everyone else…”
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  Shot themselves in the foot?

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