Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
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    3 years ago

    It’s not Steam’s fault if their competitors can’t make a good product. Steam is still the only one with Linux support.

    • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 years ago

      There is nothing exclusive to steam with respect to Linux support. All of the things required for games to run on Linux which valve support are fully open source and even existed before valve got involved. They just threw money at the efforts and turbo charged it (which is great).

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        All of the things required for games to run on Linux which valve support are fully open source and even existed before valve got involved.

        Yes, which makes it even more puzzling that the competitors don’t even try to capitalize on the success of Steam Deck and publish their own store on Flathub, utilizing the very same FOSS technologies to make the games run.