sugar_in_your_tea, rok temu

Yeah, no.

And Valve is perhaps the best PC store since they have continually pushed PC gaming forward, for example:

• Valve Index - still one of the best, if not the best, VR headset out there; it made VR a lot more interesting
• Steam Controller - didn’t make as big of a spash as they wanted, but it was really innovative and lead to…
• Steam Deck - yeah, they weren’t first, but it’s affordable and made a big enough splash to get big studios to care; now we have a lot more options as well for handheld PC gaming

Not to mention their Linux support, awesome customer support, free dev keys, and Steam Link app. What did other stores do?

• GOG - DRM-free is great! But that’s about it.
• EGS - free games and lower store fee are cool
• Xbox Game Pass - pretty good for users, but it’s troubling long term, and it only works on Windows
• everything else - can’t think of anything special here

So no, I don’t think Valve is bad in any way. Quite the opposite, they’re the best behaved games store on PC.