Remember when PC gaming was dead 10 years ago? Remember how bad it was 10 years ago for PC gaming? We sure have come far since then.
>Japanese games coming onto PC was a crapshoot because publishers didnt believe that PC gamers would like japanese games. Today just about every japanese game is on Steam. >Publishers didnt believe visual novels would have a market but steam convinced publishers to release and translate a lot of visual novels >Games before steam were very concentrated towards american and japanese developers, thanks to steam's ease of access for new developers we see a birth of talent and developers from outside japan/america and in europe >adult games finally having a place >steam grew big enough that console makers are now release their exclusives on PC because it's a market too big to ignore >Steam help revitalized old genre of games due to it's massive userbase
and then im not even talking about the amount of advancements and technology that steam invested into PC gaming overall that people take for granted today.
If Steam never existed, we would be buying shitty PC ports of games off desura or direct2drive, having to do sign ins on individual games off installers on amazon and trying to download new updates and patches off fileplanet.
Based Sweeney solving piracy by paying for everyone's copy
Christopher Anderson
Publishers were abandoning PC, even MS didnt want to support PC gaming anymore 10 years ago. It's clear that PC gaming was dead just a decade ago and It's amazing how far things came for PC since then.
PC gaming was the only games market that rapidly declined in sales a decade ago compared to consoles that were growing fast, there was pretty much no future for PC gaming if you were a PC gamer back then.
