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Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

This, I mean.. Epic tried and had a storefront so terrible they had to bribe developers into making their games exclusive. Something that never fucking worked for any game that wasn't Kingdom Hearts; and only resulted in the games bombing because they released on a constantly malfunctioning storefront that constantly got bad publicity.

And Origin was literally ran by EA, so..... yeah...

GOG is the only real competitor Steam has, and most people's opinion of it is "This is nerd shit", which is a take even I agree with because the only games it really has are older than dirt, meaning I'm the only one who gives a shit about them.