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Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved (www.gamereactor.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exclusives are a bastard child of oligopoly, where the distribution platform has more power than the publisher.

Before Steam physical games were NEVER sold only in ToysR, they were sold in all shops.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No, that's pretty wrong. There absolutely were exclusive store releases, or temporary releases where one store would get a certain game a whole month early.

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

they're still sold everywhere...just nobody buys em cause why the fuck would you when you can buy em online?

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