Idea of all PC games coming to Stm

[unconsidered]

I'm almost certain that at some point that every PC game with the exception of Blizzard games and Minecraft, has come to Steam at somepoint. From the big and the small, from release date to years beyond, almost all come to Steam. Do you think it's a good idea for games to be released on one digital service?

[Jolly]

At 9/27/12 07:32 PM, unconsidered wrote: I'm almost certain that at some point that every PC game with the exception of Blizzard games and Minecraft, has come to Steam at somepoint. From the big and the small, from release date to years beyond, almost all come to Steam. Do you think it's a good idea for games to be released on one digital service?

I think Minecraft will come to steam eventually once they stop updating it and the popularity of it dies down.

I don't think Monopolies are ever good, even when it's a great company like Valve. They shouldn't completely rule the digital PC games market. I wouldn't mind being able to get every PC game on steam though.

[Idocreating]

The main benefit of a game being on Steam is availability. The fact that your on Steam is like free advertising, sales can shoot up when on the platform and putting on a big sale can shift thousands of copies.

Minecraft effectively generates it's own popularity. It doesn't need to be on Steam, it doesn't need to give any money to Valve because the game is popular enough to not need Steam. Same with Blizzard products, or certain MMO's like Guild Wars 2 (Though TERA did eventually get onto Steam as well as a lot of F2P MMO's).

Companies like Activision go on Steam because they see it as a way of having an online shop they can control (See the ridiculous pricing of CoD games on Steam. It's cheaper to buy a PC copy in a normal store for most of them.) without having to setup all the servers for the store itself like with EA.

[Painbringer]

At 9/27/12 07:47 PM, Jolly wrote: I don't think Monopolies are ever good, even when it's a great company like Valve. They shouldn't completely rule the digital PC games market. I wouldn't mind being able to get every PC game on steam though.

There are other services, like GOG and Origin.