• AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Steam offers many services to users and developers more than just being a simple storefront. They didn’t become top dog by virtue of being early, there are plenty of competing launchers that do not offer even a tenth of what steam offers.

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      8 months ago

      I feel like a lot of people, myself included, forget that there’s all kinds of software and such available on steam. Their main thing is games, but they have stuff like Blender (which is free), Vegas Movie Studio or whatever it’s called, and a bunch of others. Don’t they also have movies, or am I wrong on that one?

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        8 months ago

        They used to have purchases of “streaming copies” of movies, which is the same thing as setting your money on fire, but they don’t do that anymore.