Digital fiefdoms like who, you ask, as if you don’t already know the answer? “Valve is the most egregious example,” says Gavrilović. He hopes for a future where devs, not digital feudal lords, have more power, “but I lack the imagination to envision the replacement of Valve with a community owned alternative. That ‘winter castle’ will not fall as easily, but we should at least start openly discussing alternatives.”
Make an opensource game store that’s owned by a non-profit and paid for by the game studios that want to sell on it, giving them a say on how things should run.
We will find a unicorn before that simply because such a store isn’t easy to keep up and because things turn political real fast, wich is why steam is run like it is.
Make an opensource game store that’s owned by a non-profit and paid for by the game studios that want to sell on it, giving them a say on how things should run.
We will find a unicorn before that simply because such a store isn’t easy to keep up and because things turn political real fast, wich is why steam is run like it is.
That could easily be abused by the big players, and would be.
How?