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benny@reddthat.com 1 week agoNot really, they’re the villain for doing exclusives. Steam never did exclusives, they offered their own games on consoles even when the store was in it’s infancy.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s exactly what Steam Greenlight was before they stopped all curation of games.
benny@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Curation and encouraging PC ports when the store was relatively new != exclusives.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Steam Greenlight was a program where independent games without a publisher could release games on Steam, but it was absolutely exclusive. They couldn’t sell their game elsewhere.
Literally the first game released on the program was a free Total Conversion mod that you could download anywhere else for free, but if you wanted to get it installed through Steam, you paid them for the privilege.
benny@reddthat.com 1 week ago
The dev made money from at least the iOS, Android and Steam Greenlight versions. They also offered it for free.
www.giantbomb.com/articles/…/1100-4366/