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> Steam which I don't think has ever had an exclusive title Aren't all of Valve's titles exclusive to Steam? I remember being annoyed that I had to install ste
by subway 7y ago
> Steam which I don't think has ever had an exclusive title
Aren't all of Valve's titles exclusive to Steam? I remember being annoyed that I had to install steam for some version of Counter Strike in the early 00s, and didn't think the situation had changed.
- denkmoon 7y agoThere are definitely steam exclusive titles. Just like how people get upset now when they buy a physical copy of a game and it's just a license to download from the eshop, Steam did this first. I have a bunch of physical pc games that just include the steam installer.
- denimnerd42 7y agoyeah this was big drama with Half Life 2. You bought the game and then had to wait hours and hours to download it on steam.
- majewsky 7y agoI vividly remember game journalists writing angry columns on how Steam will be gone in a year because it's just too inconvenient. :)
- denimnerd42 7y agowhile that may not have been true I certainly didn't buy another steam game until I was on college broadband 3 or 4 years later
- Aeolun 7y agoI don’t think they are ‘steam exclusive’ titles so much as they are only released on Steam. They’re allowed to release elsewhere, it’s just such a pain compared to steam that nobody does so.
- cjhopman 7y agoThis comment doesn't really seem to make sense in context. Maybe you didn't realize that Valve makes Steam?
- Aeolun 7y agoI did. I’m not entirely sure how you think the comment doesn’t make sense?
- jandrese 7y agoTo boil it down: Valve doesn't pay anybody to make their content available exclusively on Steam and doesn't advertise "exclusives". People did that for free. IMHO, exclusives are obnoxious and I'm glad Steam doesn't do that. The physical retail market is full of crap like that, or pre-order bonuses that are tied to particular retailers. All of that garbage is a cancer on the gaming market.