Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store

• benny@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Curation and encouraging PC ports when the store was relatively new != exclusives.

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  • 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.

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    • 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/

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I was slightly wrong about the order. I was actually talking about Black Mesa, which was in the same initial batch of 10 games.

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