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Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago* (15 children)

Not true at all starsector is one of my favs and so is vintage story and before that Minecraft in its early days. Your just straight up wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Yeah, but how did you learn about those games?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (12 children)

    not through steam, whats your point relating to this question?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    You did not answer the question. Developers that self publish are repying purely on word of mouth marketing. Its rarely successful. Minecraft is very rare exception.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (10 children)

    No they're not, they're good games and didn't need steam to get recog ised by the comunity, Im failing to see your point.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (9 children)

    I learn about vintage story from a very obscure video on youtube a few years ago. I never see any media talking about it. Lemmy is the only place i see people occasionally talking about it.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

    Idk what to tell you I found videos about it on YouTube and Iv found plenty.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (7 children)

    Was that before or after you filled the algo with VS videos?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    I found it via YouTube, steam had nothing to do with it. Your not making a point here and I'm not going to keep it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    A great example is when Factorio was released onto steam.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Again youtube, I leaned about it from nerd cubed. I spend a lot of time on YouTube over the years and I find out about most off-steam games from there. Dwarf fortress is another that comes to mind.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Neither of those games have released and at least one of them is planning a Steam release

    Of course counterexamples exist (Fortnite probably being the biggest one), but it's true for the vast majority of releases

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