Subj : Re: Latest Valve's announcement
To   : Arelor
From : hollowone
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 00:04:32

 Ar> 
 Ar> If Microsoft were to play a Google/Apple style scheme and make it so only
 Ar> official app stores were supported by their Operating Systems, Steam
 Ar> would be in trouble. If Microsoft released their own games store and
 Ar> actively tried to hinder third party stores, Steam would be in trouble.
 Ar> The people at Valve is smart and they know this. The best way to survive
 Ar> long term is to ensure they don't depend on Microsoft playing ball
 Ar> forever, therefore they NEED their product to run on different Operating
 Ar> Systems just in case.
 Ar> 

I don't know man.. MS missed this whole game plan around Windows 7 era. They screwed up App store concept with Windows 8 and I'm not sure if anybody is serious about their story, nor ever be.

They may try... to buy Steam.. that would be better for them instead of competing. This is such fucked up app store platform if I think about it as windows-native. and app stores are saturated now.. hard to convince anybody to change when everybody has a 10+ years long tail backlog in their libraries.

I think steam is invincible and by making PC gaming OS agnostic they are bigger treat to Windows business than MS could ever be to them.

-h1

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