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New video has surfaced that shows a man drawing a gun and opening fire at counter protesters during the neoNazi protest in Charlottesville on August 12th. The man. Its cake versus ice cream for Splatoon 2s first Splatfest and were streaming all the fun live on our Twitch channel. Come and join the mayhemFive reasons why Steam will destroy the PC games industry Gamesbrief. In the feedback for How to Publish a Game, one element stood out. I had suggested that it made sense for a developer making PC games to work hard to get on all the distribution platforms. Not just Steam, but Gamers. Gate, Metaboli, Direct. Drive and so on. Bollocks came the resounding response. No one wanted to be quoted. But Steam seems to account for by far the majority of the revenue of every single company who came back to me. People were suggesting that Steam outsold, by a factor of 1. All kudos for Valve for building this service organically to be so dominant, but this is terrible news for the PC games industry. Weve sleepwalked into letting Valve be the dominant platform holder for core PC games. And they did it without having to provide the marketing muscle, financial support and hardware innovation that Microsoft and Sony needed to give us to get their consoles of their ground. In short, Valve is becoming a dangerous monopoly. Why does that matter Reason 1 Monopolies stifle distribution innovation. In a free market, innovation and improvements are encouraged by competition. The problem occurs when one company is so far and away ahead that no one else can catch up. Think of Google. Think of Facebook. And now we should be thinking of Steam in the same way. Reason 2 Monopolies stifle creative innovation. I keep hearing that is getting harder and harder to get onto Steam, and if you dont, then your game wont sell. The PC has always been an open platform on which it is easy to distribute games. If Steam becomes a de facto monopoly, Valve decides which games we see. A bit too competitive to Half Life No distribution. We dont like Match 3 gamesNo distribution. Were not sure that anyone will want a game based on farming No distribution. Reason 3 The little guys dont get a look in. Helping the little guys is hard. When youre big, and profitable, and important, its easy to prioritise the big publishers over the little guys. The little guys are already struggling on the console although PSN provides one route to market, but the PC has been their lifeblood. A megalithic monopoly could rationally decide that it is no longer cost effective to support the little guys. Reason 4 Steam has all the pricing power. Retailers wont work with indies its not worth their while and, more importantly, indies dont give them marketing support. What if that becomes true of Steam Valve is in a position to say your game wont sell without us. We want a bigger cut, or upfront marketing commitment, or some form of guarantee. Reason 5 Valve doesnt need to promote the platform. For all their weaknesses, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo spend a lot of money promoting and improving their platforms. Trid 32 Package Page. Steam doesnt improve the PC as a gaming device. I am a lot more comfortable about oligopolies when there is something in it for the consumer like subsidised home consoles, for example. Arent Valve the good guysTo be clear, Im not saying that Valve is doing any of these things right now. They are a great developer that has created, from scratch, a dominant digital distribution platform, mainly through making it so damned good that consumers dont want to use anything else. I am pointing out the risks of letting one company completely dominate a market. Are there any silver linings Sure. As PC games disappear almost entirely from High Street stores, Steam is an incredibly valuable distribution platform. El Lider Harold Robbins Pdf on this page. It may, in fact, be the only thing stopping the PC games market from abrupt extinction. Elsewhere, social and online games i. Chuck Loeb All There Is Rar'>Chuck Loeb All There Is Rar. Steam in the slightest. In fact, they pose a great threat to Steam, as gamers start playing free to play MMOs monetized with virtual goods, rather than spending 2. Steam. So were in this weird place. Steams dominance is, in my view, bad for the industry. Yet the emergence of new service based business models is a terminal threat to Steam. How Valve chooses to react to that threat will show whether they are PC gamings saviour or its monopolistic exploiter.