PC Gaming

Honestly, remote play together has probably sold me more games than all of the summer/winter sales combined. I don't play multiplayer games much, so I don't really invest in them. If my friends are enjoying one we will remote play it together and I can make a decision to purchase after that. Otherwise, I would just never purchase them. Because of that, I'm also now incentivized to purchase any remote play together games that come across my feed and I think would be even a little fun so that I can return the favor. If they enjoy it then I will often just buy them a copy and they will get to share the experience with their go-to multiplayer friends who also go on to purchase the game. That may not be everyone's experience with remote play together, and it's possible that they are missing out on more sales than they are generating, but I doubt it from my personal experience.

Being the go to gaming platform really just means you're a money printer at a certain point. I have quite an extensive friends list on Steam, often adding people from conventions on steam and nowhere else. I have never once met somebody at a con and exchanged epic information with them. But because of my extensive friends list I'm introduced to a bunch of games that I would never have heard of or seen otherwise. It's basically free advertising for all of those titles. I might not personally be interested in any of those games, but if I notice I have friends with a similar gaming history, I will look into whatever other titles they are playing as possible gifts for topics to bring up next time we're chatting about games.