Retailers threaten to ban Steam games!

[blunty51]

vlad321 said:

blunty51 said:

MS has a monopoly with XBL, Sony has one with PSN.

Are there any consequences of that? I haven't been privy to any.

Yes, you actually have to pay to play online. Considering LIVE is inferior to regular online and you have to pay for it's a sign of lack of competition.

But you don't hear publishers making a fuss about XBL, like they do in this case.

The point is that there is no sub-competition on the 360 itself, same with the PS3. The only competition where that is concerned is XBL vs. PSN vs. WW vs. PC DD (and this is what should keep any individual entity from getting out of hand). Yet there seems to be a problem for the lack of sub-competition on the PC alone.

Why should it be mandatory for PC to be any different than the other platforms? It shouldn't. It's only because it's an open platform and everyone wants piece of the pie. I don't think there's any other reason, but that's just my take on it anyway.