A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
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In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?
  • TroublesomeTalker@feddit.ukEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    They bought it from totalwargaming. Impulse I think it was called. It was actually the most promising steam alternative at the time, and I had started to prefer to use it because it was fast, clean, functional and they had some DRM free options.

    Then GameStop bought it, and turned it into a steaming shit pile in less than a year.

    Was a long time ago though. Very early 2000s I would guess.