Kiznel: PC doesn't have freedom of choice. Either you put your game on Steam, or your game fails, which leads to everyone just putting their games exclusively on Steam anyway, which is bad for competition, like GOG. That sound like people are getting a choice?
Exclusivity is a necessary evil that helps break Steam's (and any platforms) dominance in the PC gaming market. It doesn't help that Steam has way too big of a cult following, who like to go crazy at any kind of "exclusivity" on any platform that's not Steam, while also making excuses for Valve's abhorrent practices like their continued reliance on lootboxes in their games, with no age rating, allowing users under the age of 13 to gamble away their life savings and sell them on third-party sites.
The reason GOG doesn't get as many games as Steam naturally does is literally because of Steam's market dominance, which they obtained by starting out with exclusives, forcing users to make a Steam account.
FYI Steam started and continued to grow because of exclusives and games only releasing on Steam (and now continue to only release exclusively on Steam, due to its market dominance).
Much misinformation in that post.
Of course PC has freedom of choice, how can someone say otherwise? It's one of its strongest point. Placing or not placing your game on the biggest digital market is a free choice you can make. Your gaming failing because you don't place a game where most players reside has nothing to do with that. That's just how the market works. And no, putting your game on Steam doesn't end with your game being exclusively on that platform. If that's the case, it's the choice of the specific dev/publisher.
You mentioning lootboxes and Valve's supposedly practices around them is just whataboutism and has nothing to do with platform exclusivity. And btw, there is this feature called "Family" where parents can regulate what their kids can consume on Steam and what not. Beside, you are only allowed to have a Steam account if your a 13 years old at minimum anyway.
The only known exclusive deal Valve had back then was Darwinia, a small indie game, around 2005 I think. Now, mentioning this, one has also to mention that this was a completely different time. Digital markets for video games were non existent. Companies selling their games additionally, not exclusively, on Steam happened with time because Valve believed in the vision and offered more and more features for companies that were not found otherwise. That is how Valve's dominance grew. And that is how Valve's dominance is still present today. It has nothing to do with exclusivity.
Therefore, I completely agree with @TrishaCat
Seeing GOG making platform exclusive deals saddens me and it makes me view GOG in another light.
Now, there is no information present how involved GOG is in the development of the remake. If work and money were invested to make that remake possible in the first place, fine, you have the right to sell it only on your platform. But if that's not the case, it's bad.
