Ease and convenience are a powerful obstacle to overcome. Steam is free and user-friendly, and it's built up 21 years of consumer goodwill. Most people just want to get their games and play.
This feels like it might be a watershed moment, however. I've had a couple of normie friends I game with ask me how easy it is to switch to GOG.
But in the countries that aren't on this list, Steam users who've poured hundreds of hours into Helldivers will have to register for PSN accounts or lose access to the game they already paid for, and Steam is refusing to issue refunds. That's the real point of contention.
Yes. The only reason they even offer the blanket refund policy is because an Australian consumer agency was going to sue them for not refunding products when they should.
Steam allowed game publishers/devs to do this and many other harms but consumers still lick it's balls.
Ease and convenience are a powerful obstacle to overcome. Steam is free and user-friendly, and it's built up 21 years of consumer goodwill. Most people just want to get their games and play.
This feels like it might be a watershed moment, however. I've had a couple of normie friends I game with ask me how easy it is to switch to GOG.
Is it though? Those are all economically irrelevant countries that for the most part most people wouldn't even be able to find on a map.
Japans on that list
According to the replies on twitter they have their own regional version. That's fairly common.
But in the countries that aren't on this list, Steam users who've poured hundreds of hours into Helldivers will have to register for PSN accounts or lose access to the game they already paid for, and Steam is refusing to issue refunds. That's the real point of contention.
GOG is just as woke and their interface is garbage.
Yes. The only reason they even offer the blanket refund policy is because an Australian consumer agency was going to sue them for not refunding products when they should.