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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by EpicEng on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:50PM (#13142932)
Steam != The internet. No one is preventing people from marketing their crappy games on their own. I have to dig through a mountain of shit in hopes of _possibly_ finding something worth playing. It's bad for users.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by the8472 on Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:07AM (#13144150)
But why should it be different from the rest of the internet? You also have to dig through mountains of shit to find, let's say HN.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by EpicEng on Sunday December 11, 2016 @02:32AM (#13150024)
...because we strive to make things better?
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by the8472 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:14PM (#13153691)
in my mind you're not making it better, you're just making a different tradeoff between openness and discoverability of high-quality content.

my point is that you should maintain openness while making it easier to discover good content.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by EpicEng on Sunday December 11, 2016 @07:53PM (#13154627)
>my point is that you should maintain openness while making it easier to discover good content.

Well, figure that one out and I'm sure you'll make a lot of money. Until that happens though, I'll take a semi-closed Steam ecosystem instead of the alternative.

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