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Apple could do it without Valve. They could actually make a big effort to bring tons of game devs into their store with a system that doesn't require them to mo
by stetrain 2y ago
Apple could do it without Valve. They could actually make a big effort to bring tons of game devs into their store with a system that doesn't require them to modify their games to run on Mac or iOS.
But they haven't, and I'm not sure they care enough to actually follow through on such a project, both technologically and in making and maintaining all of those publisher relationships.
- jmpman 2y agoI have thousands of dollars in my Steam library. Don’t want to purchase it again in order to get rid of my windows system. Steam has a ton of other benefits. I can literally stop playing computer games for years, and when I come back to Steam, I just click install and everything works again exactly as it did before. Compare that to almost every iOS game I’ve ever bought for $1 or $2 years ago. Now all of those have become loaded with ads or paywalls to unlock content. Angry Birds I’m looking at you. Garbage.
- stetrain 2y agoRight, which is why I'd rather Apple accept that their heart isn't really in the PC games business and work to enable Valve or others to handle that experience. My point was Apple could do it themselves, but they haven't, they almost certainly won't, and even if they did I don't think their heart is really in it to do it properly.