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In comparison they are very good, however that can turn on a dime real damn quick.
Scenario: gaben ded, bilzzard exec buys steam and it goes public. Hello enshittification
So? As opposed to what, a corporation that is impossible for someone bad to take over? That doesn't exist. Anything can happen at any time, but no use speculating about a 180 in policy. And they don't actually have a monopoly, people just love them so much that they but almost exclusively there. If Steam gets shitty, I will buy from a different PC game store.
True, but every option comes down to a hypothetical scenario which does speak of how it is at a decent place.
And pc being an open hardware open OS system makes it so people can just hop to something, and have alternative means like piracy if worst comes to worse.
PC benefit in the end is control over hardware, the programs we can run on it, and modifications that can be done to it. Something that requires hoping for jailbreaks when it comes to consoles.