February 22nd, 2013, 15:47
Consumer-friendly, yes, but also more power to Valve - since no-one does a similasr thing, Steam becomes kind of an monopoly …
"Steamplay" is insofar similar to "Directx" that it binds the customer to a single "platform", kind of.
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