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Steam is the superior platform and you they can't compete with a company that gives consumers so much value, so they're gonna claim monopoly, which is ironic because they don't breakup actual monopolies, so why should they fuck over something that isn't a monopoly? Oh right, because antitrust is a tool for companies to attack competition, not to avoid the consumer hellscape of monopolies.
Offer more value to gain market share. If you can't, I guess your business model is worse than Yoru competitors, isn't it?
My wonder is who is this benefiting? Is this a bid to get gaming under stricter control by destroying its main outlet for many?
Given video games place in the PC realm and the aggressive push for AI powered cloud compute, it they fuck up steam to disincentivize personal PCs, I wouldn't be surprised. Been a few propaganda prices about Gabe/steam in the last couple weeks. Something is up.
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Epic, and Apple stand to benefit.
Valve is pushing to bring Linux gaming (and open source in general) into the mainstream, which endangers Microsoft and Apple via their operating systems.
Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all directly compete for console sales, and with PC having the largest game catelogue and Valve pushing for open hardware, their console sales are endangered.
And Epic stands to benefit because they want to be the dominant player in the PC marketplace via EGS and Fortnite. But Tim Swiney is a dumbass that's unwilling to invest in the storefront, so their only option is to tear down the competition