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| IcaroRibeiro said: 1) As stated, I've already bought games at lower prices on other storefronts, so I don’'t quite understand what you mean. There's no restriction on pricing your games differently across platforms. In fact, you can even give them away for free if you want 2) Steam consistently offers lower prices in the digital games market compared to consoles. For starters, they actually localize their game prices, unlike Sony. They also have more frequent sales, discounts, and often give away games for free. Other storefronts (like Epic) sometimes offer even better deals. This happens because all these platforms compete with each other and since their libraries keep expanding indefinitely, there's an endless number of games to play, including free to play games. More options and more stores = lower prices. This, of course, isn't guaranteed by Steam itself, but is simply a consequence of PC gaming allowing free competition (unlike consoles). 2.1) Side argument: I'll start saying I've never bought a single MTX in my life and almost never play games with non-cosmetic MTX. But regardless, are you implying the games released on Steam only have MTX on Steam? Because I'm sure I've seen EA and Ubisoft games are released with tons on MTX on Playstation as well 3) Imo, Valve is not more predatory than Nintendo or Sony. Sony doesn't even allow other digital stores to sell PlayStation games. Beyond that, what's the issue with Valve not wanting to be a developer anymore? They aim to be a platform, not a studio and there's nothing wrong with that. Should we criticize Nvidia for making GPUs but not games? |
I see that our discussion has kinda devolved into arguing… hm. I’ll drop it here. It’s an argument I started, and it’s an argument I’ll end.
That said, I have read all your points and I believe “agree to disagree” is the most appropriate expression here. Not everybody is gonna agree on everything, no point in fighting it. Diversity in thought is a neat thing, after all.
