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I find it funny how this article casts Steam as something easy to do, as if its success has been random and just first mover advantage. Making Steam and making
by runn1ng 7y ago
I find it funny how this article casts Steam as something easy to do, as if its success has been random and just first mover advantage.
Making Steam and making it work is hard. Steam does not have the advantage of a platform monopoly like Apple or Sony stores. They earned their place in the market. And as other said here, Steam is more important for gaming history than Half Life 3 would be.
- gnode 7y agoI think to a large extent it is first mover advantage, but that's not something to be taken lightly. They invested in developing an internet distribution platform at a time when broadband penetration was relatively low. I couldn't get anything other than dial-up internet access, and Steam seemed more of an inconvenience than a revolutionary idea.