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S.T.A.G.E. on 23 May 2013
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thranx said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
thranx said:


PC was never in danger of being irreleveant. Steam isn't the only digital distributor online.  I even said i use amazon, and steam. But there is also GoG, games on demand, blizzard, origin, any other pc game that self publishes and distributes. It was all enabled because they went digital. Valve was at the forefront and was the leader, but it would have happened with or with out them. its being digital and not relying on retail stores that allowed it. not steam in and of itself.


 Yes...it was. Steam and Blizzard are basically the two pillars of PC gaming. 

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PC gaming was never in danger. Don't know why you would think it was. Steam and Blizzard do make up a great part of PC gaming, but had they not been there others would have simply taken their place. There has been a lot of digital distributors around for many years. But we are derailing the thread with this talk.

PC gaming lost relevance to console gaming until Valve took the reigns and started promoting things. Without them PC would still be in a funk. Quite frankly Blizzard is just untouchable on PC. 
http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/30/valve-steps-up-defends-pc-gaming?page=2