• A challenger appears! WeGame Hopes To Take On Steam With Online Game Store
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It could be a good thing for us. Valve sees competition, and does something we've been waiting for; Ep. 3 exclusively on Steam.
I bet gabe will offer them jobs at valve, so he can shut them down without looking like an asshole
I'm all for not keeping all your eggs in one basket but this is ridicoulously late to try to beat steam
[QUOTE=lexus04;26590422]I'm all for not keeping all your eggs in one basket but this is ridicoulously late to try to beat steam[/QUOTE] i really don't understand what timing has to do with anything
This should fail awfully fast. Why go to the lesser market, even it gives more % of profit, isn't it worse because of the fact that it has far less customers, therefore lowering the amount received? [QUOTE=RayDark;26583308]A monopoly is asking to be destroyed, besides, we benefit from this.[/QUOTE] What about those steam dependent games? Steam is also very highly useful with all its features for me, as well as convenient. And what about people that buy a game, then steam no longer supports it? Now you need to go and rebuy it, screwing you over a table.
[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;26590685]This should fail awfully fast. Why go to the lesser market, even it gives more % of profit, isn't it worse because of the fact that it has far less customers, therefore lowering the amount received?[/QUOTE] or you know *gasp* don't be exclusive to a single distribution platform
[QUOTE=Lazor;26590734]or you know *gasp* don't be exclusive to a single distribution platform[/QUOTE] Could work better, but there are companies that fear steam you know.
I don't like steam, and i don't like Wegame. I just want to play my fucking game, without having some crappy software connecting to the Internet.
[QUOTE=leadpumper;26575268]Everyone is looking at Steam's near-monopoly as a bad thing because it is a bad thing. Competition is absolutely necessary in a healthy system. When Valve controls 70% of the digital distribution market, they can do whatever the hell they want with prices and new rules about your purchases. This was a problem in the early 20th century, when huge trusts controlled almost every facet of production in the US.[/QUOTE] Actually price wise they have to be competitive due to piracy.
[QUOTE=Lazor;26590659]i really don't understand what timing has to do with anything[/QUOTE] then imagine that wegame thing coming out in 2003
[QUOTE=MasterG;26592698]If there's one company in the entire world that I wouldn't mind having a monopoly, it's valve. They're incorruptible.[/QUOTE] TF2 and hats disagree
[QUOTE=MasterG;26592698]If there's one company in the entire world that I wouldn't mind having a monopoly, it's valve. They're incorruptible.[/QUOTE] this is a bad attitude to have about any company. no company is incorruptible, no matter how much you like them
Competition encourages development. In other words, expect a Steam capture and upload service within 2011.
Its inevitable and it shall rain down soon enough. I'm waiting for Apple to pull some stupid shit.
To all of those who think steam is terrible, Please tell us why. :downs:
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;26574848]Never gonna work. Too many users are already on Steam.[/QUOTE] Yeah, yeah, and too many users were already on nintendo when sega happened, of course we all know how that ended but the console wars rocked. Price competition, i hardly knew ye [QUOTE=Valdor;26597851]To all of those who think steam is terrible, Please tell us why. :downs:[/QUOTE] There is several reasons why steam is not ideal, particularly its full control over your accounts and the contents therein. (Like hundreds of dollars you could lose because somebody decided to disable your account) This has already been discussed in other threads and i know it isn't widespread, but none of the games you 'bought' on steam are really yours at all.
[QUOTE=s0beit;26597899]Yeah, yeah, and too many users were already on nintendo when sega happened, of course we all know how that ended but the console wars rocked. Price competition, i hardly knew ye There is several reasons why steam is not ideal, particularly its full control over your accounts and the contents therein. (Like hundreds of dollars you could lose because somebody decided to disable your account) This has already been discussed in other threads and i know it isn't widespread, but none of the games you 'bought' on steam are really yours at all.[/QUOTE] Elaborate or are we just being really vague here.
Competition is good for the consumers. Kudos to them for trying.
[quote](it’s a little like Apple’s App Store)[/quote] What's the target audience? That phrase makes it seem like the audience has no idea what Steam is.
[QUOTE=BagMinge104;26574820]Inb4 Valve creates their own easy-to-use capture software and run them out of the market.[/QUOTE] That would be...like a dream.
Ahahahahahahaha! [editline]10th December 2010[/editline] I imagine Gabe's laughing right about now... [editline]10th December 2010[/editline] That fat bastard...
Atleast they didn't copy steam's style like microsoft did. [url=http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/Games/BioShock-2/]example 1[/url] [url=http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/]example 2[/url]
[QUOTE=DrLuke;26601226]Atleast they didn't copy steam's style like microsoft did. [url=http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/Games/BioShock-2/]example 1[/url] [url=http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/]example 2[/url][/QUOTE] I have seen worse
Steam for kids!
:3
This might result in a built-in capture tool in Steam. Yeah, optimistic I know, but let's just hope.
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