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Steam has now reached 38 million concurrent users (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Think of it more like Netflix. Netflix was great, then the market fractured and Netflix enshitified in response.

What it would take here is for a publisher to become a real distributor in the space, but competition is weak right now. Just like it really took Disney wading in to disrupt Netflix, it would take someone equally large, like Microsoft, to disrupt Steam. Sorry Ubisoft, but you don't cut it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Publishers already tried this (EA, Ubisoft, etc) and it didn't really work. They came back to Steam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why I think it has to be someone who owns a bunch of publishers, like Microsoft. Like how Disney is not just Disney, but also Pixar, Marvel, ABC, ESPN, etc... It's why people shit on Paramount+. There's just nothing there worth watching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Gun to my head I can't be bothered using a Microsoft store if they were to make one lol. Hell Im not even sure how I managed to escape their os, lol.

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