>>714548183
All the big ones tried to make their own stores but ended up crawling back to steam in the end because users just didn't switch over. Origin was fucking awful and I hated using it for BF3 and dead space.
>Why try
Because they wouldn't have to pay steam their 30% cut if they hosted it on their own instead.

Fun fact. Amazon was apparently trying to defeat steam and nobody even knew. Pic related.