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BasilZero said:

haxxiy said:

If they changed their plans and saw Steam as a competitor platform again.

Of course it would damage the brand now, but there's only one reason any developer would leave their third-party launchers intact on Valve's platform: to keep a foot on the door and tie these games back to their own ecosystem if they want to down the line.

@Bolded/italic - When did they ever see Steam as a competitor?

Basil, there are two reasons:

1- People that play on PC via Steam don't need to buy one of Sony's consoles to play games. Hence they are competitors because Valve/Steam is in the way of selling more Playstations.

2- Valve gets a cut from every sale on Steam. Sony would like to get 100% of the money. That is the source of most problems with EA, Ubisoft and the rest, and the reason they all launched their own stores, to try to get all the money from every game sold. They're competing for the money.