All hail our Lord and Savior Gaben, and treasure the relics of his reign:

Michael Douse, Larian's publishing director, called Steam "a democratic platform."

"There's like two of those, I think," he said. "Steam, and the Switch, too, is quite a democratic platform. If your game is really, really good, you have a very good chance that people on Steam will see it. You have to make an effort, it has to be good, it's not that simple, but it's so much better than, for example, having to campaign for your game with somebody else for like 12 months to get their store team to care about it."

I wonder if GoG and itchio are not democratic, don't provide a good enough discoverability, not aligned enough with corporate values, or something else.

Both seem to be quite good and democratic for me as a client 🤔

What the fuck is this circlejerk bullshit? Steam is a competent platform, that's it.

All Steam revolutionized is getting people to download DRM and psychologically manipulating them into buying EXEs they will never download with skins that are pretty much NFTs in all but name and people act like they're the 3rd coming of god.