Impulse Adds Bethesda Back Catalog, Will Not Include Future Steamworks Releases

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  Competition in this space is healthy and necessary! : Wheatloaf
  • It sure is, and I don't see Valve trying to stifle competition. : Beelzebud
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    There's already too much competition. Every publisher is setting up their download store, you got D2D, y... : HisDivineOrder
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      By: TheWeaponeer x Show Full Post

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      Everybody who publishes PC games has every right to offer THEIR OWN games as they see fit.
      
      Steam is a choice, and a choice YOU make, nothing more. NOWHERE, and I mean NOWHERE it is written that Steam HAS to be chosen. If you want to blame the emergence of e-stores, blame Valve for having success SELLING OTHER COMPANIES' GAMES. Because I am willing to bet a Steam store without 3rd party support does not stay on top for long. You can only sell HL2 and TF2 and L4D1-2 so many times...
      
      You talk about implosion - consider this - what happens if EA and Ubisoft and anyone else pulls their catalogs off Steam? If Onlive takes off, that may happen. If EA feels confident enough with their own store, it may happen. If Ubisoft wants to make their DD ideas work, it can happen.
      
      You may think that may never come to pass - but you can not guarantee that. If someone told you two years ago that COD might become pay-to-play on the PC, would you have believed them then? And it is not like Activision has not been dropping hints FOR TWO YEARS NOW about that happening. A COD MMO is not an impossibility from a company that has Blizzard as its partner.
      
      If having multiple clients and such is too much for you, do I what do - CHOSE one type and stick with it. But be prepared to accept defeat or not get your way on occassion by doing so. Otherwise, deal with it. You, like me, are single customers and unless your finanical input into Steam is in the millions, your opinion means JACK NADA to the boardrooms of PC game makers.
      
      No gamer, PC or otherwise, gets to have it all.

      Jul 27, 2010 10:35pm PDT
      Everybody who publishes PC games has every right to offer THEIR OWN games as they see fit. Steam is a ... : TheWeaponeer