In the age of cloud-based saves and gaming as a service, platform compatibility is an ongoing challenge for gamers. Portals like Steam, game publishers, and hardware manufacturers all have their own ways of controlling how customers interact with their products. Controlling a given tech ecosystem means controlling its profits, and controlling profits is the name of the game. That said, while it’s tempting to assume ‘controlling how customers interact’ means ‘squeezing every drop of cash out of platform exclusives
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