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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The thing with Valve is that they didn't just build a store for PC games and that's it.

Steam Input practically solved the issue of games not supporting your particular gamepad. There's Steam Remote Play, Proton for Linux compatibility, workshop for mods, well built systems for player to player trades, cloud saves that actually work...

Steam is what makes the PC a gaming platform, rather than a box capable of technically running games.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    And yet Valve's competitors can't even make a halfway decent store. They can cry about monopolies and whatnot, but at the end of the day, they just don't have a compelling product.

    I'm not expecting GOG or EGS to provide all those extra services, but they need to at least be a decent store, and that means better customer service and decent discoverability, yet they fail at actually being a store.

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