• dogs0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        331·
        1 day ago

        Luckily unlike monopolies in other sectors, Steam doesn’t involve itself in evil oractices that more or less stops others from competing.

        Someone just needs to make a better store, but they can’t because no company big enough to compete is willing to be as user friendly.

        Epic, probably the second biggest store people thing about, can’t even make a good platform. They try underhanded practices like bribing developers and customers… maybe they should make their store work properly first.

        • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Yet

          Yet, unlike other sectors yet.

          High chances that this changes. Monopolies are built friendly and get enshitificated later, one baby step at a time.

          Market will get harder and harder to join as studios optimise their processes for releases on steam and users get even more trained Games -> Steam.

          Especially when Steam manages to kill PS and Xbox, where I see big potential that this happens.

          • dogs0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            That’s always a possibility, but if it was going to happen, it would have already by now.

            It’s very obvious to me that Valves leadership cares about the end goal of making gaming accessible and as easy as possible for everyone.

            If they ever become evil, I feel it’s guaranteed to be because of leadership change to someone who is secretly corrupt, we just have to hope the reigns are handed down to someone good.

            And if they do become evil and their product suffert as a result, they are going to create an opening for the others to fill.

            The market gets harder to join as Steam makes their platform better and better. This is very very good compared to other companies that get to the top and then add physical and legal barries to others to stop them becoming competition.

            Xbox has killed itself and I can’t see Playstation going anywhere anytime soon. Steam machines could take some tiny % of Playstation users, but if they do, the users stolen might have been people who wanted to swap to PC anyway. + you can access other stores on a steam machine

        • MashedTech@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          Also, public companies can’t make good products because they don’t have long term vision. They don’t have long term vision because they need to have good short term profits and profit margins. Look at Xbox eating itself just because they need to have a 30% profit margin right now!