It wasnt the store itself, it was the whole platform. It was complete lock in, it is exactly what Gabe described as his biggest fear. If you had a pc you gamed in windows. thats it. Now thats not the case at all, and microsofts plans of dominating the windows pc and by extension the console pc (xbox) including the microsoft game pass didnt happen.
Valve doesnt need to go public to make the same mistake netflix did: they got greedy, raised their prices 60%.
What centralized game store for Windows did Microsoft have when Steam got started?
Isn’t that what the article says? Valve has to go publicly traded for it to go shit enough for most people to consider switching at all
It wasnt the store itself, it was the whole platform. It was complete lock in, it is exactly what Gabe described as his biggest fear. If you had a pc you gamed in windows. thats it. Now thats not the case at all, and microsofts plans of dominating the windows pc and by extension the console pc (xbox) including the microsoft game pass didnt happen.
Valve doesnt need to go public to make the same mistake netflix did: they got greedy, raised their prices 60%.