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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 1 month ago

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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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 1 month ago

The Steam competitor that never was.

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The reason Valve is not massively predatory is because they aren’t publicly traded and remain a private company.
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  We got lucky.

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