• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Why would they make games that could only be played on Steam machines?

    That would be absolutely insane because number of Steam users who have has to be like 0.00001% or something crazy.

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      22 days ago

      It’s more work to make a shittier experience for their customers. Valve knows that alienating customers is the dumbest possible move to make.

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        22 days ago

        Yet that’s still exactly a thing that many other platforms would do. Maximise lock-in.

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            21 days ago

            I’m fairly certain all business degrees or official training is just to indoctrinate the people likely to be in charge later. Capitalism as we know it now wouldn’t survive if any ‘next generation’ ever realized how fucking stupid this all is.

        • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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          20 days ago

          And did, for the last 30 years, but Steam now have the benefit of hindsight having seen how the last 30 years of console wars have gone.

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      21 days ago

      I think it’s more likely making a game that’s exclusive to Steam/PC. I don’t think there’s really any way to make one exclusive to the Steam Machine. At most, it could be exclusive to Linux.