StingingVelvet wrote on Aug 8, 2011, 14:36:
and you say this on the day an indie portal closes because it cannot compete with Steam).
Yeah because that's the only context and possible interpretation of what happened
I see great games like Gemini Rue and Democracy 2 that cannot get on Steam due to Valve's arbitrary rules and I worry about a future where Valve decides what is successful
I notice you omit the hundreds, if not thousands of indie games on Steam. Fact of life, most commercial distribution platforms in the gaming industry have standards in some form. I'm going to invoke the Bad Rats clause here. If Bad Rats can get on Steam then not getting on Steam probably requires actual effort.
like Microsoft does on the Xbox. That screams closed system and platform overseer to me. I hate the idea of it, and frankly we might already be there for smaller games. Only big guns like EA and Blizzard really have the power to tell Steam to fuck off, so pardon me for smiling a bit when they do so.
Then don't call everyone else hypocrites when you're being the biggest hypocrite of all - you constantly deride others for some imagined lack of accountability with Valve yet you do the same thing with other companies.
q[That doesn't mean I hate Steam or Valve. Very few see the dictator before he has gained power.
Dramarama.