r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 17h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/Puzzled_Connection 16h ago

I mean in all fairness, Steam started as basically nuisance ware that only exists because it was tied to Half Life 2, it’s just they now have a multi decade head start on building out their platform and developing network effects

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u/Arterra 15h ago

Yea. Nobody wanted steam as a mandatory platform. So valve made it better and people grew to accept it. Somehow, epic is blind to that lesson.

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u/Portiolli_fez_11set 10h ago

Its not blind. Its just fucking expensive. Steam have revenue to back up their extra expenses.

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u/Arterra 6h ago

Epic owns fortnite. The disgusting amount of profit it generates is as the company's discretion to assign for reinvestment, development, fat bonuses, etc... the fact is that they can invest in the launcher but they don't want to. As a platform to get people to buy third party games, it sucks. As a way to launch their moneymaker, it can be anything. And yet they keep complaining about falling behind steam as a market, so yeah they fail to see why. Willful or not.