Kaldaien in need of more attention? How is this news?
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
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"You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want. You must consider whether your store is going to continue receiving patches, whether the store itself is going to continue supporting your hardware and software, and whether your friends online bought the game from the same store."
So are we pissed at the entire industry, or just Steam? You don't have the liberty to buy anything from wherever you want. Go download Fortnite from Steam, buddy! Oop! It ain't there!? Here's hoping he deleted the rest of his online accounts while he was at it, but online blowhards tend to be hypocrites.
You're only underscoring Kaldaien's point about Steam by bringing up Fortnite, given that Epic is willing to release their products on other stores, whether it's mobile or Microsoft Store on PC, as long as the terms are reasonable, not junk fees, as Sweeney puts it.
^ Mental gymnastics
The inverse is also true. Go buy Half Life on Origin. Can't? Oh no! Monopoly! blows siren
Yes, Valve is quite consistent about keeping things locked to its store. Steamworks is also limited to Steam. Proton is an exception, but the LGPL license of Wine simply wouldn't allow it to be otherwise. Publishing the source code is required if building on it rather than just using it as a component.
They immediately lost me with props to the Microsoft store with what a pain it was to even access the game directory in the past. And even if it is improving is something that just locks you into having to use Windows OS as opposed to being able play the purchased game on other OS.
Hell with stuff like recall and Windows moving to trying to force OS online accounts compared to how clean Winows 7 used to be they just lose credibility for whatever they are trying to argue.
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