• Lfrith@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    Yet other store platforms like epic, gog, blizzard, origin, and uplay don’t bother supporting Linux and are content with Microsoft.

    So as much of a survival tactic it might be it would seem any other company wouldn’t bother and still aren’t.

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      15 hours ago

      Yet Valve has demonstrated it’s smarter than any of them, we’re literally commenting on an article saying they’re making 3.5 million $ per employee

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      16 hours ago

      What are their respective market shares compared to steam? Is it comparable? If it’s not, maybe they’re missing the leverage to try what Valve is attempting. But also, and likely, this is a costly long term development process.

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        14 hours ago

        So it shows other companies are short term thinking focusing more on quarter profits, and also explains why they missed put on two console generations worth of time to make a dent in the PC space when the industry was claiming PC was dying.

        It’s always excuses and lack of willingness to take risks on plans that might not pan out immediately. Then when it becomes successful from another company excuse is what is the market share in the present.