Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television

Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television

  • limitedduck@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I can agree that challenging Steam is probably a good thing, but right now Steam just gives so much more value to Devs and publishers. Steam provides:

    • a review system
    • remote play
    • the workshop
    • discussion threads
    • cards and the points store

    and that’s just what I can think of, not including the player specific stuff like library sharing.

    Devs and publishers pay more, but get a community and ecosystem in return instead of just a platform.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      4 months ago

      Reviews > Also available from websites that don’t have a financial incentive to show good reviews

      Remote play > Good example

      Workshop > Also available elsewhere

      Forums > Also available elsewhere on platforms that don’t have a financial incentive to censor criticism

      Cards and points stores > Bloat

      • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Yeah but no one do all of that with the same tool, in the same place for every game.

    • masterspaceEnglish
      312·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, but think about how much money Valve has taken, 30% of virtually every single PC game sale over the past 21 years.

      I do understand that there’s more value provided, but that’s the thing with monopolies, they can still provide more value than upstarts because an upstart has to build everything they did, while having none of the market share that they had to do it with.