2) Steam will remain powerful and relevant for years and years to come. Their moat is deep and hard to disrupt. Epic is wise to not come at them head-on and just try to clone the service, but Steam is NOT #1 because they lazily bumbled into success. They did many things right.
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Steam absolutely had first mover advantage and absolutely has been resting on their laurels a bit these last few years. I'm glad to see a fire lit underneath them, as a developer and as a player. But the meme "they don't do anything" isn't true. Mostly they just suck at comms.
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I don't say this in defense of anybody, I say this in "if you want to compete with these folks you need to understand them so that they don't stomp you to bits as they casually walk past without realizing you were even there."
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Unpopular take 3: Half Life 3 would not make a big difference even if it was everything you ever hoped for.
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Boring fairly obvious take: Epic is not going anywhere, and they will definitely succeed in attracting a good chunk of market share. How big, and how fast, and how much is taken directly out of Steam's hide rather than grown fresh, is another question entirely.
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Unpopular take 4: Everyone who has an opinion about how to "solve discovery" that invokes the word "just" or "only" has not yet actually tried it in production and it probably won't work
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Not necessarily unpopular but perhaps unconventional: The greatest threats to entrenched business models are not this store or that store, but developers moving to sell their content direct, and players moving back to piracy
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Agreed. Just imagine how much more efficient the world would be if software update were an open OS service and we had efficient browser-based web payments and open account services so that any developer could sell games without account and payment friction.
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The 3 major browser makers have 30% fee stores and are disincentivised to make web payments and software installation efficient. If lower-fee stores succeed, these misincentives will fade away, and distribution will become more developer-friendly and efficient.
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Mozilla has a store? Guess I wasn't paying attention. Google/Apple makes sense tho.
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Whoops, you’re right. Definitely #1 and #2. Gets hazy after that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers …
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I recall Firefox OS got picked up and turned into Kai which is apparently a big thing in India, but I guess providers would stick their own stores in that directly. I know Eich started Brave but I don't know if anyone thinks it seriously has legs or not
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