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What do you think of this prediction? (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but fair competition? EGS paying publishers to have exclusives doesn't seem like fair competition to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For sure! There is no real market with exclusives! EGS is the bad apple that may spoil the bunch. Now do steam services also create a pseudo exclusive, yes kinda. But developers do not have to use those, they are just making their life easier. And developers can still do their games on other platforms as well.