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[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would mean exclusives everywhere. Everyone would try to force some game pass on us, until our only choice to get an OK selection would be having 4 subscriptions. Or piracy.

With Steam, I get a well integrated platform for buying, updating and launching everything with the correct compatibility layer.

That's more convenient than piracy, so I use it.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exclusives are a bastard child of oligopoly, where the distribution platform has more power than the publisher.

Before Steam physical games were NEVER sold only in ToysR, they were sold in all shops.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

No, that's pretty wrong. There absolutely were exclusive store releases, or temporary releases where one store would get a certain game a whole month early.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

they're still sold everywhere...just nobody buys em cause why the fuck would you when you can buy em online?