The fact that PC gaming now has at least two major stores goes to show that competition is good. Phone makers have talked us into this bizarre notion that we should welcome the idea of just one store. Imagine if that was so for anything else?! theverge.com/2020/1/14/2106…
The dark ages of Windows being a virus tarpit clearly helped their argument. We'll protect you! No more malware! Yeah, great, but that's not exactly unique? It's a baseline service that shops have essentially offered forever: Your rep depends on not selling dangerous crap!
Remember when you could buy your physical games (or even applications!) from many different stores? That was a thing! Different stores, not owned by the vendors, sold from a diverse group of providers. This was good. This worked. This brought competition!
Digital makes this easier! There's no reason we can't have multiple stores, as on Windows. In ADDITION to game and software makers selling directly, if they can build the reputation. It's a dark fucking age when consumers have been conned into thinking this is dangerous.
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