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JEMC said:

BasilZero said:

@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.

The main thing the publishers refuse to understand, is that yes, while they do want 100% of that money, they also have to actually co-operate in an open market.

In a closer market you can get as cutthroat as you want, because it's your box, your store, your own closed little ecosystem. Publishers seem to look at an open platform and market and assume they can walk right in and dictate how it is operated, and it almost always fails and earns ire from customers over the long-term. Like right now, I buy on Steam, I play on Steam, I love Steam's features, and yet Sony has come in, sold me a few games and now turns around and tells me I am blocked from buying their games, despite them actually existing on Steam.

To me that is Sony dictating their own rules within Steam's ecosystem, and it's not just Sony, other publishers have dictated their own crap too, and it's why we end up seeing them either leave or walk back on their crappy decisions they've made before. This is why I firmly believe that even if they just care about the money, they are so stupid/stubborn to learn the rules and nature of how open marks/open competition actually works. 

To this day, there are more people who don't want to use, nor like Ubisoft's shitty client, and yet Ubisoft refuses to acknowledge this, let alone vastly improve their client. They would rather leech off Steam and still put their foot down on you having to use their crappy client, which tells me they don't even care about the customer, or Steam, it's just the money, and that comes off as childishly rude as hell.

Honestly, if you want an example of a bratty child refusing to learn what they did was wrong, look no further than at some game company CEO's and C-suits.