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But it has sort of happened on Windows with gaming. I’ve got games on Steam, GOG, MS Store, and Epic. It’s annoying and I very much preferred the state of thing
by evilduck 2y ago
But it has sort of happened on Windows with gaming. I’ve got games on Steam, GOG, MS Store, and Epic. It’s annoying and I very much preferred the state of things a decade ago when it was just Steam.
Android has curated a market of users who don’t buy apps. I don’t know that we can extrapolate their alt-store outcome to iOS where the buyers are.
- nottorp 2y ago> I very much preferred the state of things a decade ago when it was just Steam. Do you think you'd have all those sales every 2 months if Steam were still the only pc games store? :)
- evilduck 2y agoSteam was doing sales before the other stores popped up and I was acquiring games faster than I could play them even then. Increasing sales frequency means little to me, and is even a little annoying since I now feel like I should be constantly window shopping all the stores nearly year round to make sure I get the best sale price on something I'm after. Epic has given a lot of free titles away, which is a big difference, but only because they're trying to buy favor and want to be the winner who takes all.
- orangecat 2y agoI very much preferred the state of things a decade ago when it was just Steam Ok, but Steam is a third party store. The alternative isn't "just Steam", it's "just Microsoft". I'll gladly accept the occasional annoyance of multiple stores to avoid being locked into a monopoly.
- evilduck 2y agoSteam predates MS selling games within their first-party OS-bundled apps, so it's not the exact same situation to begin with.