I don’t know. Steam was DRM, but they smartly saw its ability to be a platform for selling everyone’s games.
Proton/OS/deck all just seem like hedges against their constant enemy: Microsoft. That was always the existential threat to Steam, and MS made it official when they launched their store.
It’s great it worked out, but I don’t think what we have today was in any of the early plans. I think most of it came later.
Proton/OS/deck all just seem like hedges against their constant enemy: Microsoft. That was always the existential threat to Steam, and MS made it official when they launched their store.
It’s great it worked out, but I don’t think what we have today was in any of the early plans. I think most of it came later.
But that’s just my guess.