Microsoft wants to end steam

Microsoft wants to end Steam in the long term

Microsoft would be interested in fierce competition with Steam to weaken the Valve platform and make users more attracted to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). All this according to the co-founder of Epic Games and creator of the Unreal Engine graphics engine, Tim Sweeny.

Sweeny accuses Microosft of wanting to create a monopoly for the PC gaming with which it would force players to go through its own application and game distribution platform. Recall that currently Windows already has almost a monopoly since there are few titles that come out for other platforms such as Mac or Linux, with this new movement Microsoft would want to take its monopoly even further.

For this, Microsoft would have to take hold of its wallet and pay the developers to make its titles exclusive to Windows 10 and Xbox One, in addition to being available only in its universal store and preventing access to other platforms such as Steam or Origin. However, this will not be easy for Microsoft since the developers know that this would greatly limit the audience they can reach since not everyone wants to go through Windows 10 or the Microsoft store.

Another strategy would be to release new updates for Windows that deliberately harm the operation of Steam in Windows, not to the point of preventing its operation but to make users end up fed up and decide to remove it and go to the Microsoft store. Of course Valve could release a new update for Steam in order to counter the update harmful to its platform.

All this in the words of Tim Sweeny, we will see that the thing ends but Microsoft will not have anything easy to harm Steam.

Source: pcgamer