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The deficiencies of the competition, paired with the advantages of Valve, serves to compound their market share, requiring less overt anti-competitive actions by them in comparison to someone like Apple.
To address these issues, I would like to see the EU put forward a sort of intercompatibility measure like they did with the DMA wrt messengers:
- allow game distribution platform users to cross buy games across platforms and use on any platform of their choosing.
* I fear that this will only incentivise even stronger DRM measures than we have now.
- allow game distribution platform users to cross play with other users on other platforms
* I also fear that this would just prompt the game industry to solidify usage of Epic Online Services, which in their current form are another layer of DRM, less performant than other multiplayer stacks, and funnel data and usage towards Epic, sometimes even requiring an Epic Games account on non EGS stores. I despise that.
@LiquidParasyte @EU_Commission yes something other than exclusive steam. The only way people can buy games is steam, some publishers like betesta only sell games on steam.
Valve has control over the requirements to play the game. You shouldn’t need the Steam client, you shouldn’t need Steam account for free games, you shouldn’t need to be tied to their User Agreement. Publishers are to be blamed but so it’s Valve for not doing more better choices for people.