Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

    • @hips_and_nips@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23•1 year ago

      Why would they have to open source anything? Just because it’s running on Linux doesn’t mean it’s OSS or even F(L)OSS. Steam isn’t open source either.

        • Cosmic ClericEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Not to mention that open source software can and sometimes does contain spyware.

          That seems allot more like a one-off, a one time thing.

          Also, anyone can view the source code for the open source product.

        • @Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Nobody with two brain cells says foss can’t have spy/malware. What’s true is only that in important projects, it is very likely it will raise flags very soon. For example, see your link

    • @Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I would think China would be eager to get out of western (USA) dominated Operating Systems.
      I know Russia has attempted it as couple of times, but with very little success.