Sometimes I feel like the only Steam hater in the world, but I got into a dispute with Valve’s customer service and ended up deleting my account in frustration. Needless to say, I lost access to every game I “bought” from them (probably around two dozen titles).
I’m still a PC gamer, but as a consumer, I prioritize storefronts like GOG, Epic (which, for all its problems, technically sells a lot of DRM-free games), and even itch.io. If all of those storefronts disappeared tomorrow, I could still play most of my PC gaming library.
PC is supposed to be an open platform, so why put a company that treats access to your purchases like a privilege and not a right on such a high pedestal by calling your brand-new PC gaming site “Steam Hype”? Or are you really only interested in covering Valve’s closed ecosystem when competing storefronts need our support now more than ever?
Take it from someone who learned the hard way: the only one who wins when Steam is synonymous with PC gaming is Valve.
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Sometimes I feel like the only Steam hater in the world, but I got into a dispute with Valve’s customer service and ended up deleting my account in frustration. Needless to say, I lost access to every game I “bought” from them (probably around two dozen titles).
I’m still a PC gamer, but as a consumer, I prioritize storefronts like GOG, Epic (which, for all its problems, technically sells a lot of DRM-free games), and even itch.io. If all of those storefronts disappeared tomorrow, I could still play most of my PC gaming library.
PC is supposed to be an open platform, so why put a company that treats access to your purchases like a privilege and not a right on such a high pedestal by calling your brand-new PC gaming site “Steam Hype”? Or are you really only interested in covering Valve’s closed ecosystem when competing storefronts need our support now more than ever?
Take it from someone who learned the hard way: the only one who wins when Steam is synonymous with PC gaming is Valve.