@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 years 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.commessage-square499fedilinkarrow-up1835
arrow-up1835external-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.com@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square499fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoI think he graduated from the Parker Brothers school of economics.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoExcept for all the games that don’t distribute via steam.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years 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