HobbitFoot

I don’t know. I look at it like firing all your construction contractors after built out all your stores in a city. You might need some construction trades to maintain your stores and your might need to relocate a store every once in a while, but you don’t need the same construction staff on had as you did with the initial build out.

The problem with judging Steam as a monopolistic platform is whether it uses its market position to maintain its monopoly or not.

Valve doesn’t really engage in vertical integration. There are a few games that Valve makes as a first party exclusive, but nowhere near other competitors like Nintendo or Activision Blizzard. There also isn’t a gaming engine that ties to Steam directly; the closest is Proton but that isn’t required.

Valve doesn’t seem to seem to require onerous requirements on third party game studios to publish on Steam. Outside of banning ad-supported gaming, Valve doesn’t seem to demand preferential treatment.

Valve could easily become a problematic monopoly, but it isn’t there yet.

You can have users, but they need to participate.

Politics flood All because that is what most people post and upvote here.

Building a new community requires yelling into the void for a few months and heavy cross promoting to get any traction.

It isn’t being provided in a way I want to consume, so no.

I’m subscribed to Nebula and like it.

The site isn’t meant to be a YouTube replacement. It is more of a collective of YouTube talent wanting to be on a platform that they collectively own together. There is a paywall because that is how they get funding for their activities.

I signed up for it because I want to contribute to people like them more to a finer degree than Patreon subscriptions of individual creators.