Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So much contradiction and ageism in this comment. Older people are the problem thinking of games they were 15 years ago, but also aggressively pushing micro transactions that a pretty new for non mobile games in the past 10 years.

    • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s literally my argument. That’s literally what I’m saying. This is not a boomer problem, it’s a problem with those that came after. The world is ready to move on but the industry insiders aren’t.

      Older millennials got in and reinvented the world. Time to let the zoomers do the same.

      See also CD Project Rekt saying that they don’t want to be bought up because they are about to become big again.

      • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        What are you talking about. Millennials are just now turning 40 years old. Gen X is the age of the major CEO’s and leaders in the industry. How do millenials “get out of the way” when they finally are hitting mid career where they have a say?

        • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I specifically said younger gen x and older millennials. When the millennials got in, they had great new ideas that changed the world. Now they are out of touch and holding back the industry. Just look at Bethesda and EA s examples of this.

          All I’m really trying to say is that when you run out of ideas, get out of the way of those who still have them.