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Similar as they may appear, the comparison between Steam and Apple's AppStore is disingenuous.Valve doesn't prohibit developers from selling the app directly to

Similar as they may appear, the comparison between Steam and Apple's AppStore is disingenuous.Valve doesn't prohibit developers from selling the app directly to customers and installing the app on their devices, bypassing the middleman. Apple absolutely locks down iOS devices and direct installation of anything is impossible (testflight and MDM options do not count). This makes these two appstores completely incomparable. Enrolling in one is voluntary, and is done by developers because it is beneficial to them, another one is extortion.

dijit 4y ago
As far as I understand (I was only working in the same building as uplay/Ubsioft connect) there were rules about payment processing (ie; all games downloaded through steam have to use the steam payments api: this is all I can find on the matter at a glance: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1755779919109939706/ https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1755779919109...) Second; while you can sell your program in other places, you may not charge differently than steam. Which makes a lot of sense but is quite hard to grapple with in reality. I think there are cheeky “letter of the law” ways of working around this but obviously Valve don’t want that and then look for other reasons to just drop your entire catalog at random (this was not done by Ubisoft, despite the title and article claiming that: https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-remove-game-steam/ https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-remove-game-steam/) After all; why go outside of steam if it’s not cheaper?
- KindOne 4y ago
  Some people don't like Steam since its proprietary. I own around 200 games on Steam and almost all of them have Steam's DRM that prevents me from running the game without being logged into Steam. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm Some games can be bought on Steam, GoG (DRM-free), and/or their website. Example: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/games-kerbal-space-program https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/games-kerbal-space-progra... https://www.gog.com/en/game/kerbal_space_program https://www.gog.com/en/game/kerbal_space_program https://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/Kerbal_Space_Program/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/Kerbal_Space_Progr...

dijit 4y ago

As far as I understand (I was only working in the same building as uplay/Ubsioft connect) there were rules about payment processing (ie; all games downloaded through steam have to use the steam payments api: this is all I can find on the matter at a glance: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1755779919109939706/ https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1755779919109...) Second; while you can sell your program in other places, you may not charge differently than steam. Which makes a lot of sense but is quite hard to grapple with in reality. I think there are cheeky “letter of the law” ways of working around this but obviously Valve don’t want that and then look for other reasons to just drop your entire catalog at random (this was not done by Ubisoft, despite the title and article claiming that: https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-remove-game-steam/ https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-remove-game-steam/) After all; why go outside of steam if it’s not cheaper?

KindOne 4y ago
Some people don't like Steam since its proprietary. I own around 200 games on Steam and almost all of them have Steam's DRM that prevents me from running the game without being logged into Steam. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm Some games can be bought on Steam, GoG (DRM-free), and/or their website. Example: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/games-kerbal-space-program https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/games-kerbal-space-progra... https://www.gog.com/en/game/kerbal_space_program https://www.gog.com/en/game/kerbal_space_program https://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/Kerbal_Space_Program/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/Kerbal_Space_Progr...