Scoobes said:
2 potential reasons: 1. GFWL is mediocre compared to Steam. Valve are effectively creating a game platform which is indirectly in competition with the consoles. They sell games and get license fees, run community features similarly to Live and PSN for free and support mods whilst tying the games you buy to your account so you can just download and play your games anywhere. It's not big enough yet, but as MS have left a gap in the PC scene for the 360, they may fear that Valve and Steam can effectively form a monopoly on the PC & digital downloads section of the market. In doing so they may eventually become a direct competitor to their console business. This can also be very bad for MS if (a big if) Steam eventually supports streaming as it'll make their console hardware redundant. 2. Linked to 1, Steam has recently started to support Macs. They may be worried that this could give Apple more games support which could in turn lead to Apple having a greater marketshare. These may seem silly but this is the company who entered the console market due to the distant threat Playstation had on PCs by bringing a user friendly computer into the living room. |
I am very sceptical of Steam being any competition to consoles or MS, but if it is true I hope Microsoft will response to this thread.
