@LiquidParasyte @EU_Commission Those launchers were independent and are installed outside of steam if the person wants to but 90% you won’t find such people. The launchers are becoming part of steam, currently independent but the future? Valve has shown to make backdoor exclusive contracts. They are the reason EU sue them for breaking the law with 5 publishers and they’ll try something else to gain more money.
@firecat @EU_Commission most people have grown accustomed to having everything they own in one launcher, while those AAA launchers only have their published games. It makes sense from a logical standpoint to pick the option that covers the widest of bases, which does not incentivise sales of those non AAA published games to sell on AAA launchers, unfortunately.
I can see that Valve has made agreements to integrate these launchers into Steam, but I don't know where they've made deals to make *exclusives* for Steam - maybe they've agreed to modifying the profit share in order to get their competition to return, but *exclusive games* is not something I've seen from them. Their approach is that they don't need to, as they believe in their libertarian ethos of free trade (and are also the market leader). They notably declined to make an exclusive deal with Microsoft, unlike every other distribution platform, for 10 years, as they believe they don't need to use (explicitly negotiated) exclusivity.
@firecat @EU_Commission most people have grown accustomed to having everything they own in one launcher, while those AAA launchers only have their published games. It makes sense from a logical standpoint to pick the option that covers the widest of bases, which does not incentivise sales of those non AAA published games to sell on AAA launchers, unfortunately.