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So I dunno anything about Gaben’s actual motives, but I will say, I personally would not be assuaged just because the store flopped. The underlying problem is t
by helpfulclippy 1mo ago
So I dunno anything about Gaben’s actual motives, but I will say, I personally would not be assuaged just because the store flopped. The underlying problem is that Valve sells games, and games needed Windows, and that’s exactly the sort of dependent relationship that Microsoft (and others) use to extract value and dominate new markets. It makes sense to me that Valve looked at how hard it would be to break out of that, and decided that it would remain diligent regardless of how credible the immediate threat was.
- ThrowawayR2 1mo agoNot a single one of the other gaming giants (Blizzard, EA, Epic, Activision, etc.) or marketplaces (Epic, GOG, etc.) who also depend on Windows bothered to counter this supposed threat? Doesn't sound like much of a threat then. Really, they're probably more displeased about the Valve near-monopoly as a marketplace for Windows games than displeased about MS.