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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago

Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down

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Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down

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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago

The Steam competitor that never was.

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Valve asked several companies to build something like Steam, was turned down every time and decided to do it themselves.

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