• usrtrv
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    4 days ago

    No, that’s what consumers like you are thinking in hindsight and unrelated.

    The context Gabe is talking about is when he was approaching publishers. They were just being anti tech and believing in traditional brick and mortar. They were definently pro-DRM. They just couldn’t fathom a digital marketplace.

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      4 days ago

      Maybe you weren’t old enough to remember it, but people were pissed and swore they would forever boycott Steam when it released

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        I indeed was one of them. Managed to boycott until left4dead2. Then i caved in. The war was lost anyway. And now i have easily put 5 figures into steam and own nothing.

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        3 days ago

        But it’s not what the quote is talking about. You’re just correlating different things.