Steam

You don't say.

Libraries should host a digital store front for the people's games.

It's amazing how many people don't actually understand what a monopoly is. Every time the topic comes up you see people say things like "well there's more than one store therefore it's not a monopoly." That's never been the actual use of the word in practice. If that were true it would be so stupidly easy to circumvent monopoly laws and regulations. I mean more than it already is of course.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/monopoly

Boo fucking hoo. Market can try and compete instead of using shady ways to agitate players to join their subpar service.

Nobody hates on Steam being a monopoly. Devs should thank Valve that their policy decreases piracy drastically.

If all monopolies would be like Steam, we would have no arguments against monopolies.

I love Steam, but I don't like how their rules seems to biased against Japanese games.

There are plenty of JP games outright refused by Steam despite have zero have adult content, and perfectly fine on being released on GOG, (edit: and also Nintendo!) or other digital platform.

Especially with visual novels and games with psychology theme.

I find it fascinating that Lemmings suddenly turn off their critical thinking skills when it comes to Valve. We really need to study this.

wish that would be true, then all thess games would be not windows exclusive anymore. And i could like get like an linux game console to play fortnite.

I'd say it's more of a 'de facto' monopoly, as every other storefront sucks so bad.

It's ironic that Valve doesn't have shareholders forcing horrible decisions that make people hate a platform to maximize short term profits, yet they reap in crazy amounts of money per year in comparison to public companies with dogshit monetization. Funny how that goes huh?

Unlike Google or Apple, I don't think steam will remove your game for putting it on GOG or Epic, how is it even a monopoly? you're not forced to sell there