Steam and Minecraft are not a good fit says Mojang
Valve's digita platform too restrictive for Minecraft
Minecraft creator and Mojang founder Markus Persson has criticised Steam's terms of service saying that it is incompatible with Minecraft.
Persson explained that Steam limits what they can do with the game and how they can talk to the Minecraft community. What he had to say about Steam wasn't all bad though.
He explained: "Steam is the best digital distribution platform I've ever seen. I've spent incredible amounts of money on it, and I own a crazy amount of games on it. It runs great, offers great services like that shift+tab stuff, and it remembers my credit card details so there's no barrier for me when I want to buy a game. But Being on Steam limits a lot of what we're allowed to do with the game, and how were allowed to talk to our users. We (probably?) wouldn't be able to, say, sell capes or have a map market place on minecraft.net that works with steam customers in a way that keeps Valve happy. It would effectively split the Minecraft community into two parts, where only some of the players can access all of the weird content we want to add to the game."
Persson continued: "We are talking to Valve about this, but I definitely understand their reasons for wanting to control their platform. There's a certain inherent incompatibility between what we want to do and what they want to do. So theres no big argument, we just don't want to limit what we can do with Minecraft. Also, Steam is awesome. Much more awesome than certain other digital distribution platforms that we would NOT want to release Minecraft on."
Thanks IndustryGamers.
