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

[FunFan]

Chazore said:

FunFan said:

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.

Hey, hey, hey. I agree. I was just being a bit fastidious. Not even Windows can be considered the only platform. But the dominance of this OS and Steam almost make it seem like Valve and Microsoft are the platform holders. Of course, they aren't. Are they?