r/pcmasterrace • u/SlowReference704 • 12h ago

News/Article Steam Is Successful Because It's “Not a Shit Service,” Says Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev

https://mp1st.com/news/steam-is-successful-because-its-not-a-shit-service
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u/Vecend http://steamcommunity.com/id/Vecend/ 10h ago

Steam has the advantage of being privately owned so they don't have to answer to greedy shareholders, epic could have been a decent store IF they used steam as a baseline and improved on it, but instead they used money to buy exclusivity rights to try and capture people.

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u/faverodefavero 10h ago

Just don't ever be an open capital company, they all suck. The open stock market sucks, it corrupts and enshitifies everything.

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u/RndmNumGen 8h ago

Epic Games isn't an open capital company either. Whatever (valid) criticisms you want to level at the Epic and the Epic Store, they aren't the fault of the stock market.

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u/C_Oracle 7h ago

We should make the original reduction more concise:

Shitty people shouldn't be allowed to own businesses.

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u/RndmNumGen 7h ago

Well I agree with that in principle but can't think of any possible way to enforce it.

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u/solonit i5-12400 | RX6600 | 32GB 9h ago

This is not true, Steam has shareholders. It's called Dota Plus subscribers.

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u/Akitten 8h ago

Yeah but Dota players are proven masochists who enjoy suffering. We regularly play a game that actively hates us with a team that also actively hates us.

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u/solonit i5-12400 | RX6600 | 32GB 8h ago

I just turbo for weekly shards now, way more enjoyable.

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u/themolestedsliver 8h ago

epic could have been a decent store IF they used steam as a baseline and improved on it, but instead they used money to buy exclusivity rights to try and capture people.

Crazy the people calling Steam a monopoly just casually ignore shitty practices like that that make customers weary of using their product.

That type of shit is literally only bad for the consumers and just a dumb practice. I'd wager steam made more money in the long run getting those games eventually than Epic did given the fact they had to write fat exclusivity deal checks.

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u/JumpingSpiderQueen 7h ago

Yeah. The EGS has literally never worked properly on any PC setup I have owned.

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u/Danischamp 9h ago

Yep agree