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Steam is a ticking time bomb. (www.spacebar.news)
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The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

We had a discussion thread on this article here back when it was new, and the same criticisms of the article remain.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

back when it was new

So a year later the time bomb still did not go off.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

To be fair to the author, I knew the AAA game publishers were ticking time bombs too, and it took like 6-8 years longer than I thought for them to start seeing major declines in their increasingly homogeneous offerings.