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And I boycotted steam's avidly for the first years because I knew what will happen and how they will kill physical games and the 2nd-hand-market (and the lending of games) for the poorer.
Caved in with left4dead2 finally and am now at like 20k games. And was right. Both markets are basically dead and I joined the devil.
At least, as long as they're not going public, they enrich gaming a bit, as they're not just a sales-platform like epic.
True, it was always moving that way, because greed, but better Steam than EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Epic Games and Blizzard with their shit stores.
Yes absolutely. Hence my closing sentence. As long as they remain a private company, all will probably be smooth. But thinking of how shit will go south with light speed once Gaven clocks out...I don't wanna think about it.