Comment on The History and Future of Digital Ownership
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 9 months agoYou would have a platform to trade games, and another to keep them. The trading platform will be able to undercut the holding platform due to practices such as exclusivity deals. This, in turn, will make the holding platform require a commission fee whenever a game is transferred to it.
If you could get a game for free in the Epic store and transfer it to Steam, where does Steam get the money from?
mammut@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Will I suppose that’s where we gotta disagree then. I cannot ever imagine exclusivity deals going away. Unless we somehow manage to get a government-subsidized middleman to track all that, you’ll always have platforms attracting prospective developers with exclusivity deals.