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The difference is that Valve basically bruteforced thier way into thier dominance by forcing anyone buying thier games through physical discs to...

Valve gets away with it because PC competes with piracy. Gabe Newell said that piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem, but if that was...

So, I'm pretty firmly in the "Steam/Valve are the lesser evil, but imperfect" camp, not a full blown dickrider like a lot of people. PC gaming in...

Apart from what @Markorian already mentioned I think there are also a couple of other points: Valve made an educated guess where the industry...