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Well, people want to be on the Steam store because many eyes look at it. That's what Valve built over time, their store has a lot of value even without selling
by Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago
Well, people want to be on the Steam store because many eyes look at it.
That's what Valve built over time, their store has a lot of value even without selling the games.
- paulryanrogers 3y ago> their store has a lot of value even without selling the game. Wait, what? If Steam doesn't sell games it has little value. So while Steam doesn't need some random indie game, singular. It does need games, plural. (Especially since being drunk on easy money, they haven't even managed to finish their founding game franchise.) Indies need Steam far more than Steam needs any one game. It's that power imbalance combined with Steam's terms (designed to entrench their market position) which are on trial.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoSorry I used confusing terminology. Steam provides a lot of value without selling the game, but just listing the game: their are extremely well known, have amazing systems for game discovery. That's why game devs feel compelled to list games on Steam.