Prez wrote on Nov 12, 2010, 07:22:
It's not gamers' fault that no one could compete well enough.
This is what is all comes down to.
It's the same thing as people pointing their fingers at Microsoft for monopolizing the OS market. When Windows 95 was a huge, buggy mess and barely trying to stand on its own, no other company thought that it was worth it to compete in the home desktop market. But then everyone wants to crap all over them years after when(surprise, surprise) they are practically the only viable choice for a PC OS bar Mac and Linux.
Steam was kinda cruddy when it started out as well, but no one wanted to follow suit and make a better delivery platform. Now people want to point their fingers and talk about how it's ruining gaming.
If it wasn't for Steam, there are a LOT of games I would never play. That's both indie titles as well as AAA titles. Simply because I can't get them in my country by any other means.
D2D is hell bent on telling me that every sale or special they run is not available in my region. Impulse has a limited catalog and so does GOG. Someone tell me what my alternatives are.