The reason they hold most of the market share is not because of bad business practices it's because the opposite. People use their service cause it's the best.

I have physical copies of PC games that require a Steam Account.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Which is why you don't have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

A Steam key Valve didn't get a cut from, btw.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So all those files on the disc I had to install were for something else then?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game using Steam, and not an actual game you own.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So it's anti consumer bullshit.

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

That is done because of a game publisher, not steam.