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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're a distribution mechanism. If you buy a Steam game you need Steam. Allowing developers to require Steam to play their game is not anticompetitive or in any way unethical.

They didn't force any developer who wanted to sell games on Steam to only sell games on Steam. That's what would be anticompetitive and abusing their market position. Games choosing to only distribute through Steam because there's no other storefront that wouldn't be a worse value if it was free isn't Steam doing something wrong.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My point is that they did initially to force usage. I'll edit the post with the game name when I get home.

Edit: Lost Planet. It had a disc but required you to sign up for and use steam to play it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

A publisher only distributing through Steam when it does things others don't isn't forcing usage.

Forcing usage is requiring developers to only distribute through Steam.

There is no scenario where the first is wrong, and there is no scenario where the second is OK.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like it was a console exclusive before it released on Steam, if you're talking about Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (which is the only one I can find by that name).

Do you have more information about the release? Or perhaps it's a different game?