[seanalltogether]

Some of the big publishers have been requiring user accounts on all their AAA games sold through steam, so I think Valve knows it won't take much for these guys to switch to exclusive sales through their own platforms if Steam becomes too costly.

[scoot_718]

Is that what's behind that crap? Too many games require some fucking account I don't care about, when it should be linked to steam.

[jamp897]

Yes, it’s also because platforms control what you can expirence, and if they feel it competes with their platform in someway they disallow it. So studios aren’t going to tolerate that going forward.