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RE: GAMEDEV BLOG: 006 - The Steam Greenlight experience... [Wormhole Ventures]
Hey @dwinblood what do you think about Unity joining forces with facebook to build a similar platform to steam? Will that platform cater better to independent developers?
I doubt it. Valve is a very FREE company. They don't do a lot of the negative things that most corporations do. In fact most things people complain about Steam are due to developer decisions. Steam does not tell you that "you must sell your product for X", "you must put your game on sale", etc. Those are all developer/publisher decisions.
Plus, I have close to 1300 titles that I own on Steam. Why would I even consider giving up my library to go to a Facebook platform? I also see Facebook on the opposite side of the spectrum, spied on by government, people thrown in jail over it, lost jobs over it, etc.
As to Unity joining forces. Unity tries to target as many platforms as possible so it does not surprise me. I can tell you that if Unity ever FORCED me to use Facebook for my programs I'd stop using Unity almost immediately. I am engine agnostic. I use Unity due to experience and having a bunch of assets for it. I could switch to any other engine if I really had to and I'd suffer some setbacks as I relearned how to do certain things.
I am a huge fan of Valve and Steam.
They are welcome to try to compete, and they likely will get a lot of business. Tying in with social network Facebook will give them a lot of exposure. So they will likely get a lot of new users. I don't see anyone with a sizeable Steam library switching to another platform anytime soon unless they had a way to port their games over.
GOG.COM let you link up with Steam and bring some titles over for a couple of weeks. GOG CONNECT. Yet they haven't done that for awhile. I like the mission of GOG and the company behind it as well.