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Nobody can beat Steam, but why?
Steam has had plenty of competitors, but none of them came out on top. Why?
Steam has been around since the early 2000s, launching alongside Half-Life 2much to the chagrin of the gaming community at the time. What was seen as yet another needless DRM solution has ballooned into one of the most important pieces of software in gaming today, snowballing Valve into a powerful position capable of forcing developers as large as Activision Blizzard to comply with rules only found on Steam.
