Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down
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Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down
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The Steam competitor that never was.
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Valve asked several companies to build something like Steam, was turned down every time and decided to do it themselves.

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