Sorry for the dumb question but I noticed I will be able to buy Starfield on Steam which is great because I was about to sign up for Xbox gamepass. I thought Starfield is an exclusive, so how come you can get it on steam?
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Microsoft doesn't consider Steam as competition, and then you have to register it with a Microsoft account.
Ohhh. Ok. That makes sense.
Microsoft only does things that make it more dominant in a field. They have admitted fully that the Xbox brand is entirely to stop Sony from making a PC competition. If Sony leaves, don't expect MSoft to stay. Windows is their actual money maker.
Microsoft is constantly trying to produce game software, therefore I think the Xbox brand is a means for promoting that. But they don't care if you buy their software from Steam. They might make a little bit more from their own storefront, but you're right it wouldn't be worth it maintaining the whole Xbox brand just to try to make money as a Steam competitor.
Yeah more often than not the other publishers use steam as a shameless pass through of sorts and force you to sign up to their third party launchers even if you bought it legally and some of them get really obnoxious about it.
I love nothing more than opening a game in steam only to have the third party app crash or ask me to sign back in for some odd reason.
You see them getting away with tag abuse as well in the searches which is why you get Rainbow Six Siege popping up in singleplayer only filters, Valve gives them such a blatant pass.
lmao yeah I noticed that. I am an old head and used to play the original one on PC and loved it. I bought siege without doing any research and was highly disappointed.
And it’s also on a windows pc… so they got some money from you already
I have a gaming laptop that is windows. So that makes sense.