American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment and InXile Entertainment Brian Fargo, says that Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam is the savior of PC, in a recent interview.
Speaking with Eurogamer, He said, “They’re the saviors of the PC as far as I’m concerned. They’ve been great. You think about where we all were, kind of in the dark ages, when there was nothing.
There was just flash. There was no digital distribution. They’ve opened up a way to get directly to the audience in a way that isn’t politicized, or forces us to do exclusives or all the other things the console guys do.
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, “put all sorts of guns to our head”, in order to release on their platforms, It used to be with Xbox, just until very recently, you couldn’t have an Xbox Live Arcade publishing license unless you had a retail product. What did that have to do with anything?
Valve has all this power but they don’t wield it. They let us all work in an open system. So for that I can’t say enough good things about them.”
InXile Entertainment’s upcoming post-apocalyptic role-playing video game, Wasteland 2 is currently in development and Brian Fargo is working with Valve on the Steam Early Access release.
The Steam early access “gives immediate access to games that are being developed with the community’s involvement. These are games that evolve as you play them, as you give feedback, and as the developers update and add content.”
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Source: Eurogamer.