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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the barrier to entry for a Steam competitor is nearly non-existent

My brother in christ have you heard of network effects?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It's not network effects (but slightly related), it's opportunity cost.

    Getting your app into yet another app store isn't hard, but takes time, so you need to make sure it doesn't cost devs more to add support for you than it earns them. The slightest fuzz and they'll drop you if you're small.

    But stores like Gog are able to exist just fine. They're big enough that many devs think it's worth it to support them. If you want more devs to do so, tell them that's what you want and show it will be worth it. And if you want to open another store, copy Gog & co

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