***Steam Reports 100% Sales Growth for 7th Consecutive Year***

[Final8y]

yes, which is why app stores are likely to take over. It's all in one place and hence the demise or die to infrastructure buy out of steam and an incoporation into one of these app stores.
Everything is coming under one system. That way the developers in this case microsft can make certain demands. On stability,security and compatibility before it is listed in the app store.
Like all games and software on apple products are from the app store. All in one place, everything.

So I still don't know what you point or objection is.

Which does not make sense as apps stores are not integrated and one apps store bought out the steam infrastructure changes nothing as its still what we have now, only that the name would have been changed from steam to something else and people would still want to use just that store just like steam.

You said everything will have its own store= not one store.

Everything is having their own store, so there's no need for steam and physical media is dying.

Android has android market
iOS app market
Windows8 windows market.
Xbox and ps3 all ready have market places.

 

[Glaucus]

Which does not make sense as apps stores are not integrated and one apps store bought out the steam infrastructure changes nothing as its still what we have now, only that the name would have been changed from steam to something else and people would still want to use just that store just like steam.

App stores are very very much integrated.
A bumpy out doesn't mean the system stays identical. It would be incorporated into the app store.

So what is your point?

 

[Final8y]

App stores are very very much integrated.
A bumpy out doesn't mean the system stays identical. It would be incorporated into the app store.

So what is your point?

So your freinds list, made on one appstore automatically shows up on the other apps store ?

When you set download directory in one apps store all the other apps stores save to the same directory ?

When you start playing a game all the other apps stores will notify your friends that you playing that game and would you like to join ?

When you want to view your apps games they all show up on one app store even the others were bought from a different store ?
i could go one ect....

 

[Glaucus]

So your freinds list, made on one appstore automatically shows up on the other apps store ?



i could go one ect....

You could go on but your so far wrong it's mind baffaling.

There is only one app store (On each platform)
So yes it all syncs as there is only one service.

 

[Final8y]

You could go on but your so far wrong it's mind baffaling.

There is only one app store (On each platform)
So yes it all syncs as there is only one service.

Actually think its your explanation of what you meant that was baffling.

Because i have already said before in another thread that it would be good if there was one service that used the infrastructure like steam, one client for all the stores, so that you only needed one friends lists, one account ect...

 

[Glaucus]

Actually think its your explanation of what you meant that was baffling.

ect...

Hows it baffling, have you ever used a mobile device, smart phone or tablet. There is only one app store you buy all software through, be it games or applications.

 

[Final8y]

Hows it baffling, have you ever used a mobile device, smart phone or tablet. There is only one app store you buy all software through, be it games or applications.

Nope it should not be like on those devices, single point of purchases at one price.

There are games that you don't have to buy directly from steam at steam prices that you can activate on steam.

A single DLC client that is used by multiple stores and not a single store with a single client.

 

[Glaucus]

Nope it should not be like on those devices, single point of purchases at one price.

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That's the way it's going and most people think its great.
In the meantime windows8 has both, so you still have a normal desktop. So you can buy and install what you wnat. But as popular parity explodes, expect to see less and less people using the old fashioned desktop.

 

[Secret_Window]

Next you'll start to see Steam store offered to PS3 users or *ahem* PS4 users. It's inevitable that they will tap into the console market more.

 

[Final8y]

That's the way it's going and most people think its great.

On mobile devices yes but this is the PC, its not owned by single entities like on the mobiles and consoles.

 

[Final8y]

Next you'll start to see Steam store offered to PS3 users or *ahem* PS4 users. It's inevitable that they will tap into the console market more.

Indeed.

 

[Limenote]

Next you'll start to see Steam store offered to PS3 users or *ahem* PS4 users. It's inevitable that they will tap into the console market more.

Most def, their agreement with Sony is a smart move to secure a gateway to the console market.

 

[Vtec9k]

780 Petabytes! That is an immense about of bandwidth required...

Good on Valve though, showing that PC games can still be profitable despite all the wolf crying about piracy

 

[Glaucus]

On mobile devices yes but this is the PC, its not owned by single entities like on the mobiles and consoles.

You need to go have a look at windows 8 on a Pc, this is the way it's going.

 

[Final8y]

You need to go have a look at windows 8 on a Pc, this is the way it's going.

It does not matter what windows 8 has.
Its no different from IE being integrated, people don't have to use such integrated features if they don't want too.

 

[The Running Man]

UNIT growth... Hardly surprising when they do some sales like putting games at 50p or a quid and stuff plus they have expanded the catalogue.

Id like to see how their margin fared YoY also to compare to see if they are really working harder to gain more units and potentially revenue but suffer a slight decline in GM%.

 

[Glaucus]

It does not matter what windows 8 has.
Its no different from IE being integrated, people don't have to use such integrated features if they don't want too.

Really you have no idea where OS are heading. Really again go look at windows 8 and the direction MS are heading. It's all quite plainly obviuse what they are doing and windows8 is a stepping stone to get the public use to it and of course to support old software.

So you can use a different service on iPads without hacking? and how many of the 10s of million users do?

It's massively different to comparing it to Ie. your talking about one piece of software. Compared to how the whole OS is designed from the ground up.

 

[Final8y]

If everything has to be approved by Microsoft to what gets put on the apps store like on mobile devices then people will DL elsewhere.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Hows it baffling, have you ever used a mobile device, smart phone or tablet. There is only one app store you buy all software through, be it games or applications.

You are of course correct that people want to buy all their apps (eurgh, I feel dirty just for using that word) in one place but, right now, that one place for games is Steam. While Windows 8 may have something resembling the app repository seen on Linux I think it's too late to try and steal Steam's thunder. Even up to two years ago Windows could have overtaken them but instead time and time again they demonstrated their disdain for the PC gamer and now, with all the damage GFWL has done to their image, it'll take them a long time to regain any traction on the gaming side of things.

The other thing is that 40 million (or whatever it is now) users don't just disappear over night nor does annual growth of 100% just simply dry up (though of course growth like that is unsustainable and will eventually stop). Will there ever be something better than Steam, well you know what they say about the never word though I would imagine that after seven years people have made a large commitment to Steam and have built their gaming catalogue there which would make parting with Steam that much more unappealing.

 

[Glaucus]

You are of course correct that people want to buy all their apps (eurgh, I feel dirty just for using that word) in one place but, right now, that one place for games is Steam. .

See my first post, I'm not talking about an over night or even fast change. I doubt the full change will even be windows 8 and more like 9 if not 10.