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Depends on what you mean by Steam exclusive. Most of the AAA games released in the last 10 years or so uses Steamworks. Steamworks is a Valve provided library t
by skocznymroczny 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by Steam exclusive. Most of the AAA games released in the last 10 years or so uses Steamworks. Steamworks is a Valve provided library that offers support for achievements in the Steam client, DRM, multiplayer etc. It also means that if you have a Steamworks game, you have to activate and play it through Steam client, even if you buy it in a different store. So technically, it's not an exclusive, because you can buy games in different stores. But even if you buy your game in a box, most of the time what you get inside is a Steam key and instructions on how to download and activate the game.
- Cthulhu_ 8y ago"Most of the AAA games"? There's quite a few AAA games that, if bought / launched from Steam, will open up their own Steam-like application (notably, Ubisoft games).
- gruez 8y ago>Depends on what you mean by Steam exclusive. [...] So technically, it's not an exclusive, because you can buy games in different stores. Sounds like an exclusive to me. You could buy Days Gone (a "ps4 exclusive") from walmart and gamestop (so there's competition at the retail level), but you're still locked to the PS4 platform. It's slightly different for PC because you could conceivably get the cracked version without steam and that steam is free, but arguing it's not an exclusive because you can buy at multiple retailers is a weak argument.
- FeepingCreature 8y agoSure but it's not like Valve forces or pays the devs to exclusively ship with Steamworks.