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Will Valve still want Game Pass on Steam if Microsoft buys Activision?

Valve has expressed interest in bringing Game Pass to Steam, but could this change if Microsoft successfully purchases Activision-Blizzard and its IPs?

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lonewolf10544d ago

Remember that a good portion of the games offered on Game Pass are also sold on Steam as full-priced games.

Which unless you are anti MSoft/a certain digital platform fan then you wouldn't buy on Steam anyway if you had GP, so nothing changes in that regard

GhostTurtle544d ago

Phil has said that GP's reach is drying up. Of all xbox fans, those that would ever buy GP have it. Bring it to steam and it'll open up a whole other world. Valve would get that sweet 30% and M$ gets a player base that at one point was unreachable (Steam). Dont know what the model would look like, but on MS's front, doesnt have to be exactly what's offered on PC xbox app, that way there's still some incentive to go there.

XbladeTeddy543d ago

A good portion won't be full price. You can get steam keys a lot cheaper by just searching key distributors like G2A etc.

lonewolf10543d ago

They are not much cheaper or even more expensive depending on game, I look at the key sites a lot especially in the current economic climate.

PapaBop544d ago

Wouldn't the better question be would Microsoft want their games sold on Steam still?

XbladeTeddy543d ago

Why not? Steam's is the biggest digital platform out there.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein20h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii16h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo16h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9016h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19897h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

qalpha16h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno16h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan16h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno15h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198116h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6697h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19812h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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The Epic Games Store Has Two More Freebies this Week

It's time to add two more games to your library for free from the Epic Games Store.

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terminalgamer.com
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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger882d ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 20h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 18h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.