"It's not the platform holder's job to make [third party games] successful." - Robot Entertaiment CEO

[Chazore]

FunFan said:

Chazore said:
See I can agree with this. With PC you have no platform owner since it's open which leaves those third parties to put in their absolute all and make sure the game works and sells. That is honestly how it should be for all the other platforms as well, those parties have to work for their keep, work for the sales and success rather than thinking they own the industry and thinking they are owed the sales and success along with free rides.

You could, kind of, say Valve is the platform holder of the Steam platform.

I'm talking of course for the entire platform itself, not the store. Valve have their own different philsophy on how they go about their store the same way EA, Ubisoft and CDP go about GoG, all of them handle their stores very differently to one another. Even if we count Steam as a "store" platform, 3rd parties still have to do a dandy and tight job to secure the sales, it is their job to make sure it;s a great game, not really much to do with Valve, if anything Vlave just hand you the keys to set up shop and everything just goes on from there.