Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • TheWoozy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    139·
    10 months ago

    Let’s start a pool to predict how many years/months until Steam enshitifies. It WILL happen. It’s just a matter of when.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Of course, but I’m not expecting that to happen until Gabe dies or retires. Until then I think Steam will be number 1.

      • Sacha@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        10 months ago

        Gabe won’t live forever and usually someone new wants to put their vision up, and make their changes and feel special and then bam.

        Mess.

    • Zeron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Hopefully not soon, but probably once Gabe is gone if i had to guess.

      If steam goes public, might as well start packing the bug out bag because shit is going to go south real quick.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It WILL happen. It’s just a matter of when.

      Probably but that doesn’t mean that I have to buy games on inferior platform now.