It seems big game companies are starting to leave Steam.(Activation, Bethesda, Epic Games) Thoughts?

Nice page where we can see the difference between monopoly and competition in the market place

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if all AAA publishers leave steam, what steam has to offer?
Thousands of trash and a few good Indie games.

The only real advantage over other platforms is the community market, everywhere else we will have to use real money all the time.

Steam, and GOG. I don't feel like I need any other platforms.

For me, other platform still cannot win over me because of Steam's regional pricing.
My region is SO MUCH more cheaper on Steam.

Unless GOG, Epic or whatever starts offering regional pricing as cheap as Steam, I don't see myself buying elsewhere.

Steam should cut better deals with the major game makers so they'll come to steam..
Charging 30% (more?) just to be on steam is insane, and why big big games either aren't on steam, or don't launch on steam.
How much did steam miss out on because gta 5 wasn't on steam at launch?
And how many users are disgruntled because they got a damn rockstar key instead of steam?

Only two problems for me with having multiple stores/launchers:
Having no crossplay and accidently rebuying a game I all ready own elsewhere.

It's a complicated question. On one hand, it's bad for Steam to have a monopoly - it gives them too much power and discourages them from improving stuff like their support (since they don't have to if nobody can threaten their control of the industry.)

On the other hand, it's annoying for customers to have to run twelve different clients to play games, or to have the list of what you own scattered all over the place.

What I sort of wish would happen is some sort of law or rule that made it so owning software in anywhere forces any online marketplace above a certain size to recognize your ownership and let you download / run it through there (with perhaps some nominal charge to the original retailer for bandwidth etc.) That way we could have competition, but still run all our games through Steam. It would also destroy the inherent advantage to being the largest retailer, adding more competition.

btw even ubi skipped out on steam for their new game division 2 which looks to be promising, note to mention is that it is in fact coming out on epic games. I guess they are slowly leaving steam.

Steam wallet cards. Enough said.

IMHO the more clients, the better. No more games that "bribe" their way through Steam Greenlight and get shoved down our throats! We want games that are high quality and not just Unity/Unreal/GameGuru/Newsgrounds asset-flips.

Also, just look at LBOstore, where devs get 100% of all sales. So much incentive to diversify and spread out, especially if you are a big dev and don't want Steam to milk millions off you (LBOstore is not a client, but the point has been made)

The fourth option.

This is not a matter of stores, it's a matter of steam fanboys vs the market.

No Steam No Buy.
There is plenty of games to play on Steam already, i'm not gonna bother with multiple stores.

I buying ubisoft games on Uplay instead of steam (mostly). Thanks for free Destiny 2 I'm using battlenet now. Origin only for Battlefield sometimes. Bethesda goes in trashcan after Fallout 76. Steam is the best place for indie developers which I mostly play.

I have just created a Epic Games Store account just in case steam bankrupts :D

IMO other stores need more community features and meta-gaming to be competive, that's the part nobody except Steam even bothers to do currently. Add achievements, levels, badges, cards, inventory, all this stuff.. Make us able to create and beautify profile. Make it worthy to complete games by giving achievements and skins. Add forums, reviews, screenshots, artworks, streams, and tonnes of other stuff to spend time on. All that makes people to see platform as something bigger than just another obstacle before launching the game.

if you think about it, it's not a big deal to have multiple storefronts and clients. you have very small disadvantages.
with luck more competition also makes some advantage. steam is far from perfect, and a bit of a cure will be positive for it (and the others).

Bought FIFA 19 and it's only playable through ORIGIN , Bought CSGO and it's only playable through steam , Bought rainbox six and the division and they're only playable through uplay, Bought COD BO4 and it's only playable through blizzard's client...... but i'm fine with it, when i want to play a game it's only 1 more click away ... giving too much monopoly to 1 plaftorm is always a bad idea.

Epic is Tencent, a Chinese Cultural Enterprise. They have QQ, which their Sinophonic (though not exclusively) social media clone which has like 1.6 billion or so monthly regular users, or about 2/3 of what Facebook has. They have the cash to go buy PUBG and Fortnite, and before that Riot (league of legends) which is fine because I don't play them.

I don't want to give a Chinese Cultural Enterprise (see their homepage) any logins or keys or PC information or anything. I can't really trust Facebook or Valve, but at least there is a shadow of government oversight. I feel like their cultural enterprise moniker is all but saying they are the government or in cahoots with them.

I'm not into their (Origin, Ubi, Bethesda, Blizzard) games, why bother?
well weebs mostly not interested to their game anyway

This thread seems more relevant than ever. I wonder how many big games will actually come to steam this summer/fall.

With Bethesda and Ubi gone, so are the bulk of my purchases on Steam. The games I want that are coming out this year such as Doom, Rage, Halo, Outer Worlds, Control etc. will all be stuck on other launchers or require some other shitty drm. Right now, I can't even think of any other game coming out this year, that I want, that won't be moneyhatted by epic. And I'm never buying from epic. I generally don't buy most non bethesda/ubi games on launch anyway, so waiting an extra year might not be as bad as it sounds, if they still have sales once they come to steam(assuming their epic contract doesn't forbid it). I guess my best alternative for the ones never coming to steam is to buy an ssd for my ps4, and buy their games used, so I can still play them without supporting the companies. The only semi-positive thing coming from this is I no longer feel the need to upgrade my pc, as pc gaming is nearly dead to me.