Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev -3 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Monopoly isn't bad (or illegal) if it doesn't exploit and/or abuse it's market position, which Steam doesn't.

[–] darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Also it depends what's driving that attitude... if it's an ethos from Gabe then great but he won't be around forever... what happens when he dies/retires?

Many companies have started with great ethics that went out of the window when the founders moved on, and Steam is in a fantastic position to enshitify if it wanted to.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's a lot or what-ifs. If a lot of companies enshittify, that doesn't mean all do. Especially when Valve is not publicly traded (sure, "for now"). It has a lot of credibility, especially compared to other launchers (EA, Ubi, Bethesda, Battle.net). And while there is GOG which is a great launcher aswell especially by selling games without DRM, it's one in a million.

By your logic, we shouldn't trust any company because they can all enshittify.

[–] darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you replaced "company" with "monopoly" in your last sentence, I agree.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Doesn't even have to be a monopoly, I have zero loyalty to any business beyond the product they give me. Trust is for people, not for some nebulous corporate entity who wants my money.

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