Slowly but surely. The only real reason I keep Steam around is because it's still the only place you can get 99.9% of Japanese games, which make up the majority of what I play, on PC. They took forever to embrace the platform in general and I imagine it's gonna take at least another decade before they start embracing other services. Mostly because, and I'll readily admit it, no other service comes even remotely close to the install base of Steam so I can forgive companies (Japanese or not) for ignoring those services, but also I'm just gonna bet a lot of companies are still worried about piracy and GoG being completely DRM-free probably isn't a comforting thought to them.
Steam is for the most part a completely solid service. However, and goddammit I know I've said this half a trillion times on these forums this past year alone, I just don't like that they're you're only option for the vast majority of PC games. It's gotten so crazy that they've essentially become synonymous with the platform. Whn you think of PC gaming, chances are you think of Steam. Again, and yes I get it, they've earned it, I'm not arguing that. It's just for a platform that people like to brag is all about choice, it's amazing how little choice you actually have in some cases.
Also, I just find the front page and browsing the Steam store a terrible experience. There's too much shit in both senses of the word. There's a lot of games in general, but also just a lot of genuinely terrible games that have no business being sold. It took Valve forever to kinda sorta crack down on asset flips, but as far as I know, they're still a thing and it's really only the most heinous ones that see any action taken by Valve.
So I applaud other publishers waning off of Steam. That's great, we should all stop being so reliant on them lest we end up with another "Amazon" when Gabe and the rest of the old guard step down. Probably unlikely, but competition is good either way.
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