While many accuse Valve of monopolising the PC gaming market, others argue that Steam's dominance is simply the result of doing things right.
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Exclusives are a bastard child of oligopoly, where the distribution platform has more power than the publisher.

Before Steam physical games were NEVER sold only in ToysR, they were sold in all shops.

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No, that’s pretty wrong. There absolutely were exclusive store releases, or temporary releases where one store would get a certain game a whole month early.

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they’re still sold everywhere…just nobody buys em cause why the fuck would you when you can buy em online?

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