Re:Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devi...
by girvo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:22PM
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For you. You don’t speak for the rest of the market though, and Steam comfortable holds its lead for good reason.
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Re:Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devi...
by sellyme on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:47PM
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> You don’t speak for the rest of the market though
Do you?
> Steam comfortable holds its lead for good reason
Yes. One of those good reasons is that it allows people to purchase Steam games without buying them on Steam, thus avoiding having to subsidise Valve's 30% cut.
There's an absolutely gigantic ecosystem around buying Steam games from first-party (developer) and third-party (marketplace/bundle) sellers. I don't think you realise that it's a perfect example against the point you're making. There's enough competition from the ability to "side-load" games into Steam that it's very common to get some of the greatest games ever made for under a dollar, when their MSRP is up to two orders of magnitude higher.