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Valve don't have the market power with the big players you think. Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft all sell a subscription service and their games & DLC directly. Epic ha
by stubish 4y ago
Valve don't have the market power with the big players you think. Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft all sell a subscription service and their games & DLC directly. Epic have a competing store, and pumped in enough money that people have gotten used to having their owned games in multiple wallets. The small and medium players are who Valve has power over, and even they get to choose between Valve's large cut or accepting a bribe from Epic for exclusivity. I see a remarkable change from when your game was on Steam or it didn't exist.
- dijit 4y agoI worked for 6 years at Ubisoft. Valve has enormous power and uses it often, even at one point de-listing our entire catalog without warning because we had an additional asset in a game which was granted based on region. (and we got blamed in the media for it). Ubisoft games are still on Steam despite this, though the big publishers despise this amount of power, and sometimes valve does come across as bullying when you’re on the receiving end.
- lakomen 4y agoYou took away "expired" my hard earned ubi points that could be used to lower purchase prices. Since then I'm not spending money on your platform anymore
- dijit 4y agoHA! Those ubi points exist to give people the discounts we aren't allowed to directly give because of Steam licensing terms. :D The fact they even exist is a symptom of what I'm talking about. (also: I never worked on uPlay, I worked in the same building)