Aeternum

The fight for free app stores and the fight against Steam monopoly are two sides of the same coin. Pro-Steam advocates (bots, cultists, take your pick) want to enable a monopoly that harms developers and attempt to shout down any debate by pretending that Steam is pro-consumer. Lack of store choice is not pro-consumer, and as we enter a world of 10-100x the number of games on Steam a year, Valve's algorithm will decide who wins and loses at this game, and it is sure to be opaque, confusing, and reward what they (Valve) want to see, even as they paint it as what you (the customer) actually wants. Furthermore, Apple's app store behavior makes it difficult for any developer who wants to build products to do so without Apple's permission on its billions of devices, and then they cripple their browser so you can't go around it. If you think any of this is good for gamers you are an idiot.