… the ability to continually comment on other people’s Steam reviews.
I think by default the option is disabled, but it’s just excellent that it offers such a feature at all. You can’t even do this in Google Maps, Google Play, Walmart, Amazon, or Target, or almost any other platform. But on Steam, unlike GOG, Itch, or other platforms of which I know, you can have an entire conversation with the reviewer about the validity or details concerning their review, where you can flesh out, “Hey, this person actually has no idea of what they’re talking about,” or, “Hmm, this is actually a valid point that I hadn’t considered before,” and even defend the reviewer from other critics in the comments.
I still get concerned about Steam’s incredible dominion over digital games today, but it also blows my mind why other platforms don’t try to copy even just some of its elements more.
Because that is not enough. They have to provide more value than just a few of the Steam features. One of the reasons why consoles (and Epic on PC) tries to snag exclusives, because good games are the most driving factor to use a platform. The other could be features that really distinguish them with real value for the end user, such as GOG with DRM free downloads of the purchased (and free) games.
Copying some of the elements and features of Steam doesn’t cut it, that’s not a reason to switch or buy games on a platform (in my opinion at least). However having some important features such as user reviews will make it more likely not to block and ignore that platform.