The article makes some good points. Most people downvoting it probably just see a title that attacks their favourite game distribution platform, if there even is such a thing.
Personally, I treat Steam like a rental service, because that’s what it is. Meaning I exclusively “buy” games on Steam at deep 80-90% discounts. So, when the enshittification inevitably hits the fan, I can jump ship without feeling like I’m loosing too much.
I’ll just link this reply. They lost me when they said “The lock-in effect with Steam is so great that [Epic] giving games away for free is not putting a sizable dent in Valve’s dominance.”
It doesn’t matter that Epic is giving away games that only run on a platform I don’t use. They won’t get my money until they get their heads out of their asses about Linux.
The article makes some good points. Most people downvoting it probably just see a title that attacks their favourite game distribution platform, if there even is such a thing.
Personally, I treat Steam like a rental service, because that’s what it is. Meaning I exclusively “buy” games on Steam at deep 80-90% discounts. So, when the enshittification inevitably hits the fan, I can jump ship without feeling like I’m loosing too much.
I’ll just link this reply. They lost me when they said “The lock-in effect with Steam is so great that [Epic] giving games away for free is not putting a sizable dent in Valve’s dominance.”
It doesn’t matter that Epic is giving away games that only run on a platform I don’t use. They won’t get my money until they get their heads out of their asses about Linux.