• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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
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      24 hours ago

      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.