Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In 2005 when Roblox came out? No. League of Legends came out in 2009, and I had barely started shopping on Steam for non-Valve games back then. Most of us were still buying games on disc at Walmart. Minecraft was doing early access before Steam had the feature.

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  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Jesus Christ, I had no idea know Roblox was that old. (2006 btw, not 2005) I thought LoL and Minecraft were the oldest, which both came out in 2009, and Steam had already cemented itself by then. It was definitely past its infancy, and what other digital game store was it competing with back then? I was already using it, and there was nowhere else I downloaded games from other than individual game’s websites. It WAS the defacto storefront.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Steam was a launcher for games most people still bought on discs back then. I remember 2007 was the first time I bought a game on Steam, and it wasn’t a regular habit for years after that. It wasn’t about which other digital store you used; it was that, as a digital store, it held no power in the market compared to brick and mortar. Plus, back then, PC gaming was definitively second fiddle to consoles.

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      • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Except you said several of the games listed were old enough that steam was in its infancy and not the defacto storefront when they came out. The only one that came out when Steam was in its infancy was Roblox, and as for the rest, if there’s no other storefronts around to speak of, then its the defacto storefront.

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