I watched discord take over, in my opinion they “won” over other chat apps because they were easier to get started than team speak or mumble, and better than skype. These days they have the network effect working for them. Sure you can easily replace a chat app in a weekend, but convincing everyone who you play games with to install a new chat app is a lot harder.

What are you talking about? First, this video is in no way a “product shill”, he even compares it to other vr headsets. Second, Tested has been consistently putting out extremely in-depth VR hardware reviews so this is nothing new.

I might be out of the loop, but wasn’t that lawsuit based around publishers not being able to sell steam keys for cheaper than the price on steam? In my mind that seems perfectly reasonable since valve is paying for the steam services that are needed to turn that steam key into a playable game.

It’s hard to have a productive conversation when I bring up a specific example of Epic being scummy, but then you wave vaguely at allegations made in an ongoing lawsuit

It doesn’t seem like you’re paying attention… Steam didn’t buy the publisher of a popular game, and have it removed from the Epic game store so that it could be their exclusive. That was Epic and the game was rocket league. If epic wanted to compete “from a consumer’s point of view” they would make a better product than steam, but their store is still missing features

Valve makes infinitely more money off of store fees selling other people’s games. Why would they want to make a fraction developing a single game when they can go after Android’s 30% cut?

Is this your brain on AI?

Their biggest problem is they have to brainwash their users into thinking their product couldn’t have just been an app.