Disagree. Most big companies have tried the way of not releasing on Steam, and almost everyone came back over the years because they realized a lot more people buy your game if it’s on Steam.
But they came back with the launchers… I think less would have come back if they couldn’t also install launchers.
A lot of companies would but big games that are going to sell just on the name like GTA would be fine without steam. Multiplayer features and APIs are all built into the launchers, I don’t see them rewriting huge chunks to remove it so steam can take a cut of the sale.
Nope. People use steam. Remember when insane hatred was poured for years over epic because they dared to have exclusive deals? The megacorps conform to people when they have to
Not at all, they would bake the tracking and updating and login logic into the game itself rather than slash most of their income for some random grandstand.
I read this as banning something like lutris and was very confused.
If they did ban launchers most the big companies would not do what you want and just not release on steam.
Disagree. Most big companies have tried the way of not releasing on Steam, and almost everyone came back over the years because they realized a lot more people buy your game if it’s on Steam.
But they came back with the launchers… I think less would have come back if they couldn’t also install launchers.
A lot of companies would but big games that are going to sell just on the name like GTA would be fine without steam. Multiplayer features and APIs are all built into the launchers, I don’t see them rewriting huge chunks to remove it so steam can take a cut of the sale.
Nope. People use steam. Remember when insane hatred was poured for years over epic because they dared to have exclusive deals? The megacorps conform to people when they have to
Epic games has most their games as exclusive on the epic store ?
Oh well. I believe Ubisoft or EA tried doing that, and they came crawling back after a while.
A steam frontpage without ubisoft and ea would be heaven.
Not at all, they would bake the tracking and updating and login logic into the game itself rather than slash most of their income for some random grandstand.
Good! Releasing it in Steam should mean releasing it on Steam, and not releasing what’s tantamount to a shortcut to another launcher.