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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It will just keep getting worse until some new "disruptor" enters the marketplace. That one will be great for a while, then collapse into a new archipelago of shitty cash grabs.

I'm just wondering what the next big thing will be... Maybe some kind of local macro-kiosks that have mechanical DRM units that store all the data so they don't have to negotiate with the non-open ISPs. You could probably even include impulse sales of physical merchandise and consumables while people browse for the media they want.