A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
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In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?
  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think it probably had more to do with having a store that worked well, games that had good prices, and most importantly: Good customer service. The only other service that comes close is GOG, and that’s mostly because of their DRM free policy.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Even then the majority of random games on steam are drm free out of the box nowadays. Mostly just the big triple A studios that have mandatory drm.