I'm primarily a customer so lower prices are great. But what happens if the platform where I buy games is too cheap, if they can't break even and have to close down? That's why I tried to evade Steam as long and as much as possible.
I'm primarily a customer so lower prices are great. But what happens if the platform where I buy games is too cheap, if they can't break even and have to close down? That's why I tried to evade Steam as long and as much as possible.
I've been concerned about that in the past, but I have gotten over it for two main reasons.
First, the price of offering a game distribution service digitally has fallen quite a bit, to the point that it's probably a fraction of a percent of a game's cost even if no peer to peer solution is used.
Second, the loss of a major game service would be bad, but the counterpart is that most games don't really hold much value after a certain amount of time.
A lot of services also have plans for this if it happened, though whether that would work without a hitch is dubious.
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