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Walled Garden = How do you like the different browsers in Aoole's app store? Steam isn't a walled garden, because you don't have to use Steam. You can use gog.
by baldfat 10y ago
Walled Garden = How do you like the different browsers in Aoole's app store?
Steam isn't a walled garden, because you don't have to use Steam. You can use gog.com or humblebundle.com or gamersgate.com. Heck you can buy a game on Steam and gog.com will have the game for you on galaxy. You can buy humble bundles and get steam keys.
Steam is a store and you can buy the same exact products and use them on your computer. Windows 10 S you have one store and can only buy it from one place.
- ksk 10y ago>Walled Garden = How do you like the different browsers in Aoole's app store? That's as arbitrary a definition as any. Walled garden = A hyper-controlled environment where you have zero control over access to content and services. If steam is "just a store" why do I need steam installed _AT ALL_ after I purchase the game? Why can't I just run the binary? After all, I paid for it. Next, Valve can ban my entire steam account at any point in time for any reason, without any recourse, and kick me outside the 'garden' and locking me out of every single game that I purchased. They have complete control over who gets to play in their garden and how they play. Now, I happen to like _SOME_ of the things Valve does, but I don't kid myself into thinking its something it isn't. >Windows 10 S you have one store and can only buy it from one place. Steam is an application, not an OS. Now I wonder if Valve will allow Microsoft to have a store on Steam OS. That would be an apples-to-apples comparison.