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.

  • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That seems to be incorrect, and quite possibly originating from Tim Sweeney.

    The only thing I found is that steam keys, which (as a publisher/developer) you get from steam without paying, cannot be sold for cheaper off-steam. The reason for that is obvious, since steam doesn’t get their cut on keys, but they still have to provide the support and infrastructure for those users.

    If you have a source on that claim though, I’d love to see it - I tried finding anything else on it once and failed.