And funny enough, Steam has some competition, namely GoG.
Speaking of game stores, how about an "alternate iOS app store" that only has hand curated pay once games? Might entice me to actually check mobile games again and even buy some.
Every other app store has games, too - with the reasonable assumption that Windows' app store would too, Microsoft established themselves as a competitor to Steam a year ago.
I really really really wish amazon would just develop a vendor neutral app store already. Valve seems unwilling to branch into apps outside the sphere of the gaming community. Apple and Microsoft seem to not care about the features that would make their stores more attractive to both buyers and sellers.
steam isn't an open 'app store' though. It is entirely curated through valve. Valve chooses the games to list and if they aren't happy, they will not ask you to list with them. They could easily refuse to sell games if you did that.
This is a similar reason as to why I am done paying for apps/games for phones. The phone I have can run the app or game and I upgrade the OS and I find that because no one was buying the game anymore it just was never signed for the new OS and will not run. It could run just fine, but it has been abandoned because the developer went on to something new.
Services like Steam do a way better job of keeping games running than the typical app store does for games and apps.
They will likely be exclusive to Microsoft’s so-called Microsoft Store. Microsoft (and the other game vendors) really needs to stop pretending to have an App Store. Valve owns this space on the PC and it belongs to them. Microsoft does not get to have one.
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