| JEMC said: 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. |
And yet Playstation games are coming out on Steam.
Also EA and Ubisoft are both back on releasing their games on Steam.
People who play exclusively on PC will likely continue to play exclusively on PC. They probably already realize that which is why the amount of releases increased and the amount of time it takes for a game to be released on PC is getting smaller. Sony's practically doing the same thing that MS is already doing but at a slower rate.
They dont see them as competitor but as a source of potential sales. Same with EGS and GOG where these games are being released as well - its not just Steam.
| haxxiy said: They can be revoked at any time for any reason. Obviously, if that started to happen en masse people would lose faith in the entire system of digital videogame content distribution, hence it seldom is applied, but there are examples. Technically that is true even for physical copies, since that is just the means of transporting a licensed piece of software no different than digital content, but that would be much harder to enforce. |
They cant revoke for anytime for any reason.
"We're going to revoke your game because we are opening up our own store" or "We're going to revoke your game because we do not want to sell games on PC anymore" isnt gonna cut it.
It doesnt work like that because they'll get sued to oblivion.
They can remove the games from being sold but the only reason why they can revoke a key is if the key was fraudulent.
If you buy a game from Steam, Humble, Fanatical - these are all legitimate keys, they cannot be revoked unless they do a mass refund which I highly doubt that they will do, more than reputation, they'll lose out all the money they made and than some because if that happens, I'm pretty sure they'll get stricken down in court because it would be illegal, if not the US - likely the EU and its strict laws.
When EA and ubisoft "left" steam years ago, none of the games people bought got revoked. Why? Because it would be a massive legal headache for them.
Edit: You can use CDKeys , a store that sells games for cheaper price than any other third party but pose the risk of getting whatever game you buy revoked because a lot of the keys there were stolen, etc.
Steam store, humble, fanatical, indie gala, etc are all legitimate stores and their keys are distributed to them by the publisher themselves.
Last edited by BasilZero - on 20 October 2024
