And tbh I don’t have the time nor patience if I want to game after work.

Solid 50/50

Developers can choose where to sell the executables

The trailer always shows too much.
Sole reason I will skip trailer videos.
And for trailer compilations I will skip through the announced titles to see what sounds interesting.

Or Twitch or Patreon or Floatplane or Nebula or TikTok or download the videos with yt-dlp or whatever.
There are enough creators and platforms out there to access the information in some way

To say I’m surprised would mean I would be required to lie…

Only Youtuber at this point. Amd not even them for the most part.

As are smart TVs.
If only there were 50" pc monitors for cheap.

Please not. I don’t want Sony to retreat entirely from the pc market (and they most likely will do it if they are not on Steam anymore).

And Hitman

Wheres 69 then?

Agreed.
Them withholding a game makes me not consider them in the future. I’d rather pirate it if they were to keep withholding it.

But I “allowing” them to withhold 1st party games (or studios they aquire like Psyonix) from 3rd party stores. Same goes for Valve, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard and Microsoft.
They did the work and sure are entitled to keep it. It may not be in the interested of the consumer to have the need to install yet another launcher but it’s fine.
Them buying up 3rd party releases are what I have issues with

If you market your game better it can “survive” outside of steam as well. I didn’t hear about Ready or Not having funding issues. They didn’t even announce a Steam release when they started their funding campaign.
It may result in less sales because users have to download and update the game manually. Can’t deny that assumption but it’s not a mandatory thing to publish on steam…

Not like any other app store does take 30% except for some high volume games/publishers.
Apple does the same. Hell they seem to have custom rules for each of the app devs (according to Linus and Luke from LTT: I believe this clip contains most of it. They recently talked about it again. Essentially they developed the app payment like Netflix. Apple said “No, that’s against our rules” and refused the submission of the update. Meanwhile Netflix supposedly still had the same communication for a long time.)

Same goes with Google and probably a number of other external stores.
Amazon seems to take up to 20% depending on the item (Source: sell.amazon.com/pricing.

At least Steam does provide a forum, community features and the update framework and infrastructure.
Personally I would be happy to take the offering over maybe needing to host and maintain the tech stack myself. Now mind you, maybe some other dev would rather do it themself and maybe wish to opt-out of the ecosystem. That is totally valid.

(Warning/Disclaimer: I only heard about that. I do not have first hand experience!) Apple for example takes a percentage for processing a payment and offers an invoicing system. Some may like that. Others could maybe negotiate a better deal with another provider and maybe even offer tools that integrate better with their existing accounting and ERP software.

We saw what happend with that when imgur and a gif hoster (forgot the name) decided that the free loaders are occupying too much space.

Suddenly the archival troops backed several TBs from imgur.

Like PST files? lol

It’s funny because your new (commercial) outlook and the new (general public) outlook subscribers get from MS is not fully identical.
M$ wanted me to upload my emails.

Yep that’d the “new” one.
Even for 365 subscribers.

Oh wow fuck off MS :|
Never used it except for the only time I ran an Android app on my windows pc was for Clash of Clans for which Google has a native integration for. Might have been useful later on :|

Meaning even the execution of apks is now deprecated or just the amazon store? :|