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> Epic gets everyone who would buy that game on their platform (minus the people who are outraged by the exclusivity deal) IMO, it's more about a game store's

> Epic gets everyone who would buy that game on their platform (minus the people who are outraged by the exclusivity deal) IMO, it's more about a game store's expected longevity. At this point I will probably never spend money on a game that's not on Steam (unless they go out of business) simply because: 1. I've gotten burned too many times by non-Steam stores that have later gone out of business. 2. Steam works really well. I suppose a few people might be outraged by exclusives. I think most people just want an experience at least as good as games-on-dvd.

dmoy 7y ago
Also important point 3: They've promised they'll let you download DRM free if they ever shut down steam. Yea yeah, promise from a corporation, but still.
- imtringued 7y ago
  They can't keep that promise because publishers are free to implement third party DRM. You can't blame Valve for the shutdown but you can blame them for lying.
  - judge2020 7y ago
    Of course only Steam-based DRM (not that you need them to do it - removing steam DRM is fairly trivial and a shutdown would rapidly spread the tool for removing it).
  - uep 7y ago
    Steam does indicate on the store page when games have additional third party DRM.
imtringued 7y ago
I wonder if someone could create an Apache style foundation where companies can donate their game stores and game servers to it. It would also act as an archive for free games.
- fidelramos 7y ago
  That sounds like a job for archive.org.