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Steam was the OG online store, it grandfathered itself in before a time people started to think that having their gaming library behind such a service might off
by surgical_fire 1y ago
Steam was the OG online store, it grandfathered itself in before a time people started to think that having their gaming library behind such a service might offer some downsides.
Nowadays I mostly buy PC games on GoG for that reason, but I have plenty on Steam. I do worry about it a little.
- protimewaster 1y agoOne of the things that drives me a little crazy about Steam is that there was actually an earlier digital game store (run by Stardock IIRC) that made the launcher and other tie-ins optional. That one didn't take off, though. Steam required a tie-in to the launcher, and it took off. I would've much rather had the launcher and all that be optional, but I'm guessing that requiring Steam for games like Half-life 2 probably was the smarter move (from a profit perspective) than having it be optional, so that's the way the market went.