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At least they do it with a good freakin console. XD
And I love how it's the opposite of other console approaches.
Everyone else: "let's rope some devs into exclusives, and make some more in house, that'll lock them in!"
Valve: "let's develop improvements to OSS publicly, so it runs better on PC for everyone (and our product)"
Microsoft came crawling back. EA came crawling back. Ubisoft came crawling back. Square Enix came crawling back. Activision came crawling back. Most viable competitor can't turn a profit despite third-party exclusives and free games.
Now they've got handheld users and the entire Linux gaming community suctioned onto Gaben's tits.
As a Linux user I can confirm that I only use Steam (with the exception being the Prism Launcher), the funniest part is any of Steams competitors could launch on Linux with minimum effort but instead they chose to essentially give Steam a monopoly over Linux gaming.
exactly, literally every tecnology that steam uses, or created for steam/steam deck is open source