Also,
*Not Burning Bridges*
-Criticizing Steam's policies with Steam Greenlight/other initiatives Steam used to determine what games do or don't get onto Steam and how over the years
-Criticizing Steam's positions with adult games over the years
-Criticizing Steam's revenue split for developers
-Criticizing the lack of effort Steam puts into giving indies coverage/exposure on their storefront and how they don't get much for how much they give Valve in the first place.
-Criticisms over how Steam handles its Summer Sale and other sales and events and how those decisions affect the sales/exposure of particular games in different ways.
-Criticizing Steam's terrible customer service, especially in the pre-current-refund-policy-era.
-Criticizing Steam (the program) for having lots of jank and flaws.
-Any of the number of other things developers have criticized Valve for over the years
-Taking an exclusivity deal in the first place.
*Burning Bridges*
-Publicly refusing an exclusivity deal.
Like, seriously. I've been peeking into the PC community for years now. And I can't be the only one who's noticed how over the years indie devs have been criticizing Valve/Steam for any number of issues for YEARS, including when obviously they were the only real big dog in town, but yet I never, never, never recall any of that criticism of Valve/Steam being referred to as "burning bridges" (again, considering how a lot of that happened way before EGS and thus people could have easily made that argument... but didn't.
But despite not coming up in any of those instances, THIS is when we suddenly hear about devs "burning bridges" by acting this way? This is what constitutes burning bridges, that's when that term suddenly popped when people were just fine with devs publicly trash-talking Valve and Steam all the time and didn't seriously consider any of that burning bridges, but this suddenly is? That's definitely a head-scratcher to me
