In the past few hours, PC gaming enthusiasts have received news they didn’t expect to hear: Steam will no longer be supported.
Steam represents a solid point for gaming enthusiasts who use the PC as the main console. The store created by Valvein fact, has radically changed the way we consume content, but also and above all the PC market, suddenly and radically accelerating the transition from the purchase of physical copies to digital ones.
Those of competing companies were then based on the model of the Valve platform (initially created as an anti-piracy tool for Half Life 2). Today in fact Epic, IT’S AT, Gog, Sony, Microsoft, Blizzard, Nintendo And Ubisoft (just to mention the major players on the market) have their own store on which it is possible to digitally purchase games produced by first and third parties.
In short, Steam is still today the main portal on which to carry out the acquisitions and also the favorite platform on which to start your own games favoritesdespite the fact that over the years the competition has become decidedly fierce (the existence of subscriptions offering hundreds of games has displaced part of the user base).
Steam will no longer be supported: historic decision for the American giant
It therefore appears evident that the news of lack of support for Valve’s platform may come across as very bad news for gaming enthusiasts. 2024 had already struck many users when the platform announced that in order to ensure the security of the accounts and the functionality of the new titles it would removed support for PCs still running on Windows 7 and 8.
It was therefore an almost obligatory choice, which nevertheless pushed several users to change the PC to a more modern one or update your operating system to continue using Steam. In the past few hours, news has arrived that other models they will no longer support Valve’s platformbut in this case the decision was not made by the company that offers the service but by the one that produces them.
We’re talking about Tesla and in particular of the next examples of Model. Self-driving cars today offer their buyers the possibility of playing on the go via Steam, a feature that clearly represents a plus but which according to statistics is not considered so essential by the owners of these cars.
The decision to deprive new Model lower production costs in order to lower sales prices and remain competitive on the market when competition becomes more fierce.
This means that Current models will continue to offer Steam support and that there will not be a software update from Valve that will make it impossible to enjoy it. Those who have already purchased a Model
