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>Why would game/platform creators do a ton of work so they could make less money? I know, right? Or to look at another similar situation: why would Verizon, Ch
by FatalLogic 5y ago
>Why would game/platform creators do a ton of work so they could make less money?
I know, right? Or to look at another similar situation: why would Verizon, China Mobile, T-Mobile, and AT&T all make their voice/data networks interoperable?
Obviously, they wouldn't chose to do that.
- JohnFen 5y agoThey do that because of regulation, not because they want to.
- wpietri 5y agoExactly. The early history of telephone systems was rife with refusal to interconnect. And the analogy is terrible because the whole purpose of telephones is interconnection; the value is in the size of the network. But from the consumer perspective, portability for music purchases or game assets is at best a secondary concern.