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Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

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[-] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Surely we've learned by now that decentralization and markets don't mix well

[-] JayDee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not following.

Markets were originally decentralized, and while that has its problems, a decentralized market is miles better than a monopolized market.

Like, are you thinking of Etsy or Amazon or something? Because those are all run by a single point-of-sales and logistics collectives.

What we're talking about is basically building a means for getting all the websites around the web of small shops and such (or in this case all the various game store fronts like steam, itch.io, GOG, and EPIC GAMES) and giving you client which allows you to browse and order from them simultaneously. All that store'd have to do is add the protocol to their server and add themselves to a list.

[-] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh I thought you meant decentralized currency. What you're describing is just standardized storefront apis though, the vendors don't need to talk to each other (federate) for it. unless i'm missing something

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