This is my thoughts on why Steam currently have got a lot of heat from Mastercard and Visa.

Not long ago steamdeck proved to be faster than Windows when running on the same hardware. And this is a threat against the direction for Microsoft.

Microsoft is quitting selling games. They want us to subscribe to their services. They want us to be trapped in an endless subscription service. Buying games is not the future for them.

Steam is a competition to this. Steam has their own store and promote «buying» games. Steam is not build for Microsoft subscription services. And hopefully it never will be.

It’s not just Microsoft. But EA, Ubisoft and all others. They are moving to subscription services to control what we can play and when.

Steam can’t be allowed to exists in this «new» way of earning money.

So now they hunt Steam. They proved that building their own OS to get away from Microsoft actually work. Steam works. But not the way they want it to work.

So now Steam needs to know who’s the real king in the gaming market.

What do you think?