Verno wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 13:58:
Put differently, let's assume even despite the lack of evidence that you're right and the majority of PC gamers will only buy things on Steam. Do they only buy things on Steam because....its Steam? No. They buy things on Steam for specific reasons that differ person to person. To generalize a bit though, they buy things on Steam because it matches their desired feature set and price standards. If something else had better community features or standard community features but better prices then it would compete with Steam. The only product even coming close to this was Impulse which was still quite pitiful in execution when compared directly.