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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When they started, they did used to force you to use products edit: aside from their own games(fair cop), some 3rd party games like Lost Planet also required it.

Certain games, and not just valve games, you'd buy in a store and the disc would force you to install and create a steam account to play the single player offline game.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're a distribution mechanism. If you buy a Steam game you need Steam. Allowing developers to require Steam to play their game is not anticompetitive or in any way unethical.

They didn't force any developer who wanted to sell games on Steam to only sell games on Steam. That's what would be anticompetitive and abusing their market position. Games choosing to only distribute through Steam because there's no other storefront that wouldn't be a worse value if it was free isn't Steam doing something wrong.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My point is that they did initially to force usage. I'll edit the post with the game name when I get home.

Edit: Lost Planet. It had a disc but required you to sign up for and use steam to play it.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Looks like it was a console exclusive before it released on Steam, if you're talking about Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (which is the only one I can find by that name).

Do you have more information about the release? Or perhaps it's a different game?