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.
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.