@tezoatlipoca @FuturisticRobert @whatdidmarksay So for the most part, people genuinely want to pay for good stuff, they just want to be confident that they get what they asked and paid for.

• In fact, Valve even has provisions in place for the unlikely case that they were to fold, with insurance in place to at least provide people DRM-free downloads of their library and backups for a time.
  • By contrast: I'm pretty shure everyone who blew money on #UbisoftQuartz got 100% shafted…

And that's how a (non-public) corporation gets loved by it's customers: By not being an asshole!

• But apparently that's too much to ask from #EA, #Ubisoft or even #EpicGames, who (despite having the ability to change it!) actively choose to disregard said lessions and be openly hostile towards paying #Gamers, espechally those #LinuxGamers.
  • Not that #Valve are #OpenSource champions, far from it. They merely knew with #Windows8Bing & #Windows10S that neither #Microsoft nor #Apple are their "friends" or "allies" and that they need to be independent from both if they want to survive.

In the end, not #Steam is deciding if, where and when someone buys a #Game, but they shure as hell know how to be a nice store people enjoy to shop and browse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJb3CzPso0

@henry @vowe also most of these "Marketplaces" are just more wasteful and ineffective closed-off walled gardens.

Regardless if #Steam's marketplace which AFAIK runs on some regular #SQL DB or #UbisoftQuartz which only adds #Blockchain #Enshittification.

Because in both cases, one doesn't even legally "own" the account or it's contents!
https://mstdn.science/@henry/110766090031218984