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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[โ€“] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Steam is naturally the only platform gamers care about because they're the only platform that acturally targers gamers, all other platforms target devs (except GOG who targets gamers that specifically want offline copies without DRM)

[โ€“] tb_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

all other platforms target ~~devs~~ shareholders