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Game Retailers Plan To Boycott Steam Enabled Games

Game Retailers Plan To Boycott Steam Enabled Games

Nick Hernandez 13 Nov

A growing number of the biggest PC games are making use of Valve’s SteamWorks tools and that doesn’t seem to bond well with traditional game retailers who don’t want to promote their competitor’s services.

“If we have a digital service, then I don’t want to start selling a rival in-store,” the digital boss at one of the biggest UK games retailers told MCV-UK. “Publishers are creating a monster and­ are telling suppliers to stop using Steam in their games.”

The head of sales at a big-name digital service provider agreed: “At the moment the big digital distributors need to stock games with Steam. But the power resides with traditional retailers; they can refuse to stock these titles. Publishers are hesitant, but retail must put pressure on them.”

Industry experts estimate that Steam controls more than 80% of the online games distribution market.

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Nick Hernandez

based out of London, Ontario; and has been flexing his literary skills for about 2 years. Initially attracted to the space due to his kinship with the creative minds that tend to socialize through the gaming industry, and having played games all his life; it led to a natural willingness to learn more about both the people, and entities that drive innovation in the space. A self-confessed Conter Strike: Source aficionado he claims the aforementioned as his favourite game of all time, simply due to the sheer amount of hours he has spent in the game. An optimist by nature, Nick tends to see the best in everyone, even if they can’t in themselves.

One Response

  1. griff713

    I made the mistake of buying COD Black ops, before I realized Steam was part of it… now I can’t play the game without Steam. I paid $50 for a fancy paperweight. I don’t need some other company putting software I DIDN’T want on my system so I can play a game I PURCHASED! If they want to start giving away memory and new CPU’s so that their mem/cpu hogging software in no way affects me, fine…. but I don’t see them lining up to do so. Steam is another way to sell hardware, that’s all.

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