The days of loading up physical media, installing, and playing the game are gone.
Publishers have been hard for micro transactions. That’s the whole reason for it. Maybe they are also siphoning your usage data, but that’s mainly a side hustle at this point.
Why cut a piece off for Steam when they can bypass them entirely and force users to buy directly?
> Why cut a piece off for Steam when they can bypass them entirely and force users to buy directly?
That is a completely different issue, and if you believe you don't need steam go ahead.
But here people brought and played H2 via steam, before Sony decided they could profit off of the game's popularity to boost their PSN account numbers by forcing all players to create a PSN account.
Publishers have been hard for micro transactions. That’s the whole reason for it. Maybe they are also siphoning your usage data, but that’s mainly a side hustle at this point.
Why cut a piece off for Steam when they can bypass them entirely and force users to buy directly?