• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The fuck? Are you suggesting there is somehow a better way for people to find indie games? Let’s say steam doesn’t exist at all, and every indie dev has to host their own website and files…tell me how you plan on getting people to find their games?

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      1 year ago

      You are on lemmy, a open source and decentralized platform where thousand of different instances federate with each others…

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        1 year ago

        Cool, that still doesn’t answer the question…and if you’re suggesting that people build a decentralized platform to rival steam…no one is stopping them from doing so.

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          1 year ago

          Luckily your computer can run any software you want so there’s no need to build any platform to play videogames.

          I was reply to your concern of people not being able to find their games, the fediverse is an example of how you can build a non centralized network and still bring people together.

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            1 year ago

            Luckily your computer can run any software you want so there’s no need to build any platform to play videogames.

            What’s the point of this comment? This doesn’t answer the question.

            I was reply to your concern of people not being able to find their games, the fediverse is an example of how you can build a non centralized network and still bring people together.

            Ok then what’s stopping people from doing that?

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              1 year ago

              Ok then what’s stopping people from doing that?

              Nobody. Valve spend millions on advertising to remain popular and outshadow competitors. As a result there are many brainwashed fools who go around defending the company like you can see in this thread

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                1 year ago

                I’ve literally never seen a tv ad for valve…hell I think I saw a print add in a gaming mag one time…but they really don’t need to spend money on advertising, they provide a service better than anyone else and that’s what keeps them around…EGS has been giving away titles for years now and they’re platform still sucks and is a reason they’re not as big as steam, not because of advertising.