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| Zappykins said: As far as steam always being free. I'm not sure, they really changed this year. I'll probably not have any updates on that for a few months. |
Steam will remain free.
The difference between Steam and Xbox Live/Playstation network is that Steam is a service on an already established platform where there are other free competiting services, thus competition will keep it free or bleed users to the other competing services and thus in the end... Profit would indeed decrease over the long term.
Besides, Valve is a Privately held company, they don't have shareholders that will continiously try to push for ever increasing amounts of profits at the expense of consumers. (Like Sony making PSN cost money.)
Steam has however recently introduced support of subscription-based games, but the service itself still remains free.
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