Bribing companies to release their games exclusively on your store is being a champion of a fair and open internet? Not allowing user reviews is being a champion of a free and open internet? Not setting up forum/discussion sections on your store but telling companies to just use Reddit for it is being a champion of a free and open internet?
For all its faults, Steam's platform in itself is amasing in its ''architecture''.
Everything is so readable, from screencaps, videos to game description. Oh and the recommendations for similar games is spot-on.
Players can leave ratings, their review of the game is as accessible as possible right there on the page, and can be sorted to see what people who didn't like the game had to say about it.
Just to pass time reading about stuff I cannot even play, using that platform is enjoyable.
Seeing as how the games belong to the publishers, it's not an issue of fair and open internet. I do think that Epic is hypocritical in their support for free markets. They want competition when it benefits them -- getting 30% instead of Apple -- and not when it doesn't -- competing game stores.
Bribing companies to release their games exclusively on your store is being a champion of a fair and open internet? Not allowing user reviews is being a champion of a free and open internet? Not setting up forum/discussion sections on your store but telling companies to just use Reddit for it is being a champion of a free and open internet?
For all its faults, Steam's platform in itself is amasing in its ''architecture''.
Everything is so readable, from screencaps, videos to game description. Oh and the recommendations for similar games is spot-on.
Players can leave ratings, their review of the game is as accessible as possible right there on the page, and can be sorted to see what people who didn't like the game had to say about it.
Just to pass time reading about stuff I cannot even play, using that platform is enjoyable.
but its client is mobile garbage now... thx gaben
'memba when Ubisoft basically told people to use Steam in order to find people to play with in The Division 2?
I 'member. 🍇
Seeing as how the games belong to the publishers, it's not an issue of fair and open internet. I do think that Epic is hypocritical in their support for free markets. They want competition when it benefits them -- getting 30% instead of Apple -- and not when it doesn't -- competing game stores.
*not allowing returns or linux users