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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by margalabargala on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:10PM (#38395656)
Steam has been, and for now continues to be, much better.

IMO this is directly due to Gabe Newell's leadership. Taking an attitude of "piracy is a service problem", and proceeding to offer such a good service that it's preferable to pirating, results in a great service for everyone involved.

Whether this will outlast GabeN's tenure as CEO remains to be seen, but for now my understanding is that both users and developers are overwhelmingly happy with Steam.

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by extraduder_ire on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:33PM (#38396549)
> Taking an attitude of "piracy is a service problem", and proceeding to offer such a good service that it's preferable to pirating

My favourite way to phrase this is that "steam is the most anti-piracy store available. With piracy, you play games you didn't buy. On steam, you buy games you never play."

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