Steam can go a eat a dick. There I said it.
I like the service but see zero difference between Steam and other services such as Impulse. I do not like this monopolization of the digital distribution market present with Steam. DD is great so go enocurage other services while you're at it. The competition present the free market, and all it's advantages, is best represented in a gaming context as the PC platform.
It's an open platform. It has all control types. It's design is owned by no one. It only exists and continues to progress as a result of the free market developing new hardware for it. To encourage Steam above all other DD services is to go against the very principals of the PC gaming platform.
Maybe I'm just being naive but worshiping Steam like it's some sort of godsend because it's a DD service while ignoring other DD services, simply because Steam is all you know, makes you sound a lot like a console gamer. You know, the whole "I play only console because I don't know any better.." reasoning they give us with things like "I like to use controllers and play on the TV". You Steam fans come across very much the same, but perhaps I'm just naive to Steam's advantages?
I like the service but see zero difference between Steam and other services such as Impulse. I do not like this monopolization of the digital distribution market present with Steam. DD is great so go enocurage other services while you're at it. The competition present the free market, and all it's advantages, is best represented in a gaming context as the PC platform.
It's an open platform. It has all control types. It's design is owned by no one. It only exists and continues to progress as a result of the free market developing new hardware for it. To encourage Steam above all other DD services is to go against the very principals of the PC gaming platform.
Maybe I'm just being naive but worshiping Steam like it's some sort of godsend because it's a DD service while ignoring other DD services, simply because Steam is all you know, makes you sound a lot like a console gamer. You know, the whole "I play only console because I don't know any better.." reasoning they give us with things like "I like to use controllers and play on the TV". You Steam fans come across very much the same, but perhaps I'm just naive to Steam's advantages?