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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Even some of these features are transparent to users but not to devs, for example to say few:

  • Multiplayer (big one)
  • Microtransactions (eww!)
  • Steam Audio (support for specific Audio stuff, not voice)
  • Steam cloud (Save games)
  • DRM
  • Input
  • Key management
  • Playtest
  • Steam Voice
  • Valve Anti-Cheat
  • Stats and achievements
  • Workshop and not as important but relevant to some:
  • Virtual Reality support

In a sense, this is not so different from what AWS is doing: Basically you offer a service with an API so your customers don't need to create the thing from scratch, but at the same time they become dependent of your exclusive services.