There’s still choices, you can buy from the Microsoft store, or publisher stores like origin or Uplay. Epic is a direct competitor, GOG is in a subset of the market like itch.io. Amazon sells PC games. There’s several streaming options as well.
PC gaming is a far more competitive market than your grocery store.
Gamers complain all the time. I also don’t really have sympathy for billionaire publishers complaining about the one company not actively fucking consumers.
We HAD a lot of choices. Because there were lots of digital distribution platforms back in the 2000s.
Until that libertarian bastard paid publishers to use Steam for DRM on physical releases.
Used its Most Favoured Nation clause to prevent other services from charging less.
And whoops. They all go out of business.
Generations of G*mers have grown up only knowing the Steam monopoly. That’ll they create any old excuse to try and defend it.
Source on that?
You won’t get one, unless they decide to post a pic of their asshole.
There’s still choices, you can buy from the Microsoft store, or publisher stores like origin or Uplay. Epic is a direct competitor, GOG is in a subset of the market like itch.io. Amazon sells PC games. There’s several streaming options as well.
PC gaming is a far more competitive market than your grocery store.
And G*mers throw a pissy fit anytime you suggest using them.
Also Steam leverages it’s monopoly to prevent games being sold cheaper on other services.
Gamers complain all the time. I also don’t really have sympathy for billionaire publishers complaining about the one company not actively fucking consumers.
Valve is actively fucking consumers by preventing games being sold cheaper elsewhere.
It’s all to common nowadays that PC gaming for a lot of people (and especially people new to the platform) is essentially “Steam” gaming…