shubla wrote:wont make anyone switch platforms.
Nobody is going to "switch" because of giveaways. People will never leave Steam because most people that have used it as their digital distribution platform are tied to it for life... if they want to keep access to their games. People are going to start treating digital platforms like they do department stores: go to whatever one has the better deal. Some might play politics and go to this one or that one--GoG is all DRM free, Steam has the best deals, Epic is better for the developers that release there... I'm sure other reasons will come up. In case you didn't get my message earlier, I'm already managing a half dozen+ services for game liscensing. (Because can you call it ownership when you don't own the rights to keep and maintain your digital goods?)
As much as I like Steam as a means of getting games via digital distribution, the community sucks* and the corporation that has grown up behind it has had a terrible track record. They've learned some hard lessons, but there's a part of it that is social experimentation that just doesn't work, and we're getting ready to move on to "Web 3.0"