In addition to the exclusives issue, the client and store were not particularly well made and were missing pretty standard features stuff like no shopping cart so if you wanted to buy multiple games at the same time you had to do them as separate purchases and stuff like wishlisting.

I remember Valve got quite a bit of dislike when they first introduced Steam as a requirement to play Counter Strike Source and HL2 (of course back then it was only for Valves own games).

Unfortunately Affinity just got brought out by Canva https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-statement/

Of course they are claiming oh no we won’t be going subscription only, but if history is to be believed, give it a year or two and see that stance change.

Do have to wonder (well not really it’s going to be horrendous) what these people’s response to a transman using a woman’s toilet would be.

Don’t think it got sold off but Apache got it, it’s since been discontinued again after not much work.

https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html