Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 2日前

Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme

AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 2日前

I don’t think Steam got where it is by trying to monopolize, though. They just have a long history of genuinely trying to not suck, and nobody else is willing to try at all, so they just… Win by default. It’s basically a meme now that Valve just has to do nothing and win these days.

GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 1日前

There were several online digital distribution platforms around at the turn of the millennium that shut down because of Valve’s underhanded tactics.

The same ones people bring up when complaining about the epic store

AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 24時間前

I’m not really familiar with those tactics, so I’m open to being convinced if you can provide some examples. I suppose you could argue that forcing its use for their games isn’t great, but I don’t see that as exceedingly terrible even if it’s not great.