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However, as reported in Vietnam.net, it's possible Steam has been taken down in Vietnam after local game developers complained about the scope and size of Steam's vast portfolio of games, claiming Vietnamese devs cannot compete with Steam's releases given they are subject to government approval and thousands of international games on Steam are not.

Citing it as "an injustice to domestic publishers", Vietnamese studios reportedly say that local game development "will die" if Steam is able to keep releasing games without the same government scrutiny as domestic games.

Based Vietnam protecting its domestic games industry from American capitalists. :)

TLDR: the online game monopolies of Vietnam complains that they can't extort the market share our Lord and Savior Gabe Newell rightfully earned," said one unhappy Steam user.

Steam users are so fucking insufferable. They hate all capitalist game companies except this one which they will eagerly lick the boot of.

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[โ€“] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's just a service issue, though. Steam can import CD keys from games that were bought outside of their ecosystem, I don't know why a competing service couldn't do the same with purchased Steam games (other than contracts with publishers etc.). I've at some point used most of the game stores that exist and I'll be honest they all kinda suck. They don't even give me the impression that they're trying to be serious competition.

[โ€“] companero@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

I don't know why a competing service couldn't do the same with purchased Steam games

We already kind of see that, albeit in reverse. Many Steam games require third party launchers, almost as a kind of desperate attempt to get them installed on users' computers.

They don't even give me the impression that they're trying to be serious competition

I can definitely agree with that. EGS in particular is frankly shameful for a company that constantly rakes in obscene amounts of money.