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"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] (www.eurogamer.net)
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[โ€“] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This just shows that Valve/Steam is way too powerful in games distribution. Another example of over-centralization in our modern world. My initial thought of course was "just move to itch.io or something", but they claim no one will give them investment funds to develop games unless they can be on Steam, which is just insane.

[โ€“] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

I understand that you must feel good hating on valve, but what you say makes no sense whatsoever. centralization? steam is popular but by far not the only option:

notably, the final version of Horses has been reviewed and approved for distribution across numerous other PC storefronts, including the Epic Games Store, GOG, the Humble Store, and Itch.io

if you want yo buy this game, you have many options for that

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