“Because that would be wasteful,” Jamie said. “If ten games each installed their own copy of the same fork, you’d have 10 identical forks on your PC, taking up space and potentially conflicting with each other. The Redistributable is the shared drawer of utensils that everyone agrees to use.”

“Imagine you’re hosting a dinner party,” Jamie said. “You buy amazing food—steaks, salads, desserts. That’s your game.”

Frustrated, he called his friend Jamie, a software developer.