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Posted January 28, 2021
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TencentInvestor: The value of any asset anyone can ever attain is eventually 0. This is simply life. You can have a mountain of gold, a mountain of Cyberpunk preorder cash, a yacht and house and whatnot... But nothing in this world lasts.
In the end, all is dust. Will we be there to see that day? Probably not but I know that the last human who inherits this planet won't have anyone to sell the stuff to that remains. Digital content will be long gone and forgotten then, too.
But you can be sure, sir, that, at that time, you will have people fighting for freedom.
Posted January 28, 2021
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Linko64: I mean Steam was the only digital platform of its kind at the time, I think comparing the two starts the topic off a little slanted in all honesty. They built the best system, the most robust features and then added their own eco system. They led the way, and still do.
To be fair, Steam wasn't alone at its time.

I will just name Triton (that got Prey exclusive) and Stardock Central (predcessor of Impulse), that got Galactic Civilizations as online destribution. One year before steam, less restrictive then steam. And later on with 3rd party support too.

And while steam started out as a delivery tool for patches and stuff, Stardock Central was a DRM-Store from the beginning.

But Steam got the Half Life 1 Community and the mod community of HL1.
It wasn't about HL2...
Posted January 29, 2021
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Linko64: I mean Steam was the only digital platform of its kind at the time, I think comparing the two starts the topic off a little slanted in all honesty. They built the best system, the most robust features and then added their own eco system. They led the way, and still do.
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randomuser.833: To be fair, Steam wasn't alone at its time.

I will just name Triton (that got Prey exclusive) and Stardock Central (predcessor of Impulse), that got Galactic Civilizations as online destribution. One year before steam, less restrictive then steam. And later on with 3rd party support too.

And while steam started out as a delivery tool for patches and stuff, Stardock Central was a DRM-Store from the beginning.

But Steam got the Half Life 1 Community and the mod community of HL1.
It wasn't about HL2...
If I recall rightly, Stardock was pretty messy and only got into a good place by the time Valve had its hooks in. i think I still have a promo lanyard from Stardock...in the same draw as my online console rip
Posted January 29, 2021
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randomuser.833: To be fair, Steam wasn't alone at its time.

I will just name Triton (that got Prey exclusive) and Stardock Central (predcessor of Impulse), that got Galactic Civilizations as online destribution. One year before steam, less restrictive then steam. And later on with 3rd party support too.

And while steam started out as a delivery tool for patches and stuff, Stardock Central was a DRM-Store from the beginning.

But Steam got the Half Life 1 Community and the mod community of HL1.
It wasn't about HL2...
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Linko64: If I recall rightly, Stardock was pretty messy and only got into a good place by the time Valve had its hooks in. i think I still have a promo lanyard from Stardock...in the same draw as my online console rip
Steam was messy at the start too.
But you claimed there wasn't anything else. And that is just not true.
Over the years Steam got many challengers, some even older then steam, some as old and some just slightly younger.

And a lot that are younger.

And Steam wasn't always the "better" one. For example Triton had the way better tech back then. You where even able to start playing a game, while still downloading it.

I think it has something to do with Valve being seen as "the good guy", while even before steam there was nothing to support that...
Posted January 29, 2021
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Linko64: If I recall rightly, Stardock was pretty messy and only got into a good place by the time Valve had its hooks in. i think I still have a promo lanyard from Stardock...in the same draw as my online console rip
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randomuser.833: Steam was messy at the start too.
But you claimed there wasn't anything else. And that is just not true.
Over the years Steam got many challengers, some even older then steam, some as old and some just slightly younger.

And a lot that are younger.

And Steam wasn't always the "better" one. For example Triton had the way better tech back then. You where even able to start playing a game, while still downloading it.

I think it has something to do with Valve being seen as "the good guy", while even before steam there was nothing to support that...
What is Triton?
Posted January 29, 2021
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randomuser.833: Steam was messy at the start too.
But you claimed there wasn't anything else. And that is just not true.
Over the years Steam got many challengers, some even older then steam, some as old and some just slightly younger.

And a lot that are younger.

And Steam wasn't always the "better" one. For example Triton had the way better tech back then. You where even able to start playing a game, while still downloading it.

I think it has something to do with Valve being seen as "the good guy", while even before steam there was nothing to support that...
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Truth007: What is Triton?
A story every user of hard DRM-stores should know, but that is lost in time to most of them.
At most the "we make it work without" part.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(content_delivery)


Can't post full links, because of downvote bots after annoying a gish gallop user. ;)
Posted March 24, 2021
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GeraltOfRivia_PL: What do you think
Gog is too sketchy and is a glorified minecraft style site. You need a big investment to do a platform and they realise they don't have what it takes to beat steam, which even the name alone would not make it. Epic hasn't even done what Steam did and they have the ability to.
Posted March 24, 2021
they need to make an video assuring people of their drm free purchases in order to capitalize on Sony shutting down ps3 and vita stores and removing all your paid digital titles.
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