Subj : Re: Latest Valve's announcement
To   : hollowone
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 09:38:49

  Re: Re: Latest Valve's announcement
  By: hollowone to Arelor on Thu Nov 27 2025 12:04 am

 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.

 ho> They may try... to buy Steam.. that would be better for them instead of
 ho> competing. This is such fucked up app store platform if I think about it

That would be interesting..  Although Microsoft already owns a lot of stuff - They bought GitHub not too long ago, for instance.  I'm not sure how I'd feel about Microsoft owning Steam; I'm not fond of monopolies, and when a company starts buying lots of other companies & projects, they start appearing more like a monopoly.  Microsoft has already been in trouble once in the late 90s for monopolistic practices.  However, if there's ever an issue with software approval for Windows, then I suppose Microsoft buying Steam could be okay.

I don't really like the idea of an OS vendor approving software for their OS though.. I think one thing that makes an OS good is the availability of software, and having a system where it's easy to release software for an OS means there will be a lot of software for people to use.

Nightfox
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