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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

they are banning games on behest of Mastercard and Visa

They literally have no choice, this was under threat of being essentially cut off any banking system. It's fucked up, no questions about it, but it's a societal problem that needs to be addressed legally, as any single company is powerless against that. Even Apple would not survive being banned by visa & MC