nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agoDusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopolytwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square349fedilinkarrow-up1598arrow-down167
arrow-up1531arrow-down1external-linkDusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopolytwitter.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square349fedilink
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down9·1 year agoLmao valve is hardly a defacto monopoly unless you want to be so incredibly granular about what specific market they’re a monopoly in as to be entirely pointless.
minus-squareSnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down6·1 year agoWhat planet do you live on exactly?
minus-squaregamer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI think he graduated from the Parker Brothers school of economics.
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down5·1 year agoThe one where a fairly sizable amount of major games on pc operate outside of steam sales/distribution/functionality. Tell me, if you consider steam a monopoly, what would you define as the market it monopolizes.
minus-squareSnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year agoIt monopolizes PC games in America and other countries. As even the most casual observer would know. Kind of idiotic to argue against that. It’s at the point where younger people think “pc games” is synonymous with “steam games”.
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoExcept for all the games that don’t distribute via steam.
minus-squareSnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIn the last 10 years I have bought 95% of my games on steam and that’s far from unusual
Lmao valve is hardly a defacto monopoly unless you want to be so incredibly granular about what specific market they’re a monopoly in as to be entirely pointless.
What planet do you live on exactly?
I think he graduated from the Parker Brothers school of economics.
The one where a fairly sizable amount of major games on pc operate outside of steam sales/distribution/functionality.
Tell me, if you consider steam a monopoly, what would you define as the market it monopolizes.
It monopolizes PC games in America and other countries. As even the most casual observer would know. Kind of idiotic to argue against that.
It’s at the point where younger people think “pc games” is synonymous with “steam games”.
Except for all the games that don’t distribute via steam.
In the last 10 years I have bought 95% of my games on steam and that’s far from unusual