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YongYea; Execs Stupidly Claim Steam Has A Monopoly And Get Mocked... (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

TL;DW: execs assume monopoly from market dominance, without taking into account other stores could contest said market dominance.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 28 points 7 months ago (16 children)

It's not stupid. Monopoly does not mean there's no competition. Google has been legally declared a monopoly and they have tons of competition.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Steam does a lot of shitty things — including using gambling mechanics on kids and failing to moderate the neo-nazi clubhouse that are their forums — but they are not a monopoly and do not behave in a monopolistic or anticompetitive manner whatsoever. Their success and market share is genuinely earned on merits.

Personally, I would prefer GOG, but many games don’t release there, or release there much later. Epic could compete, but their heart is clearly not in it as they refuse to give customers features they want out of a platform and do engage in anticompetitive practices.

[+] GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Oh there's plenty said about Valve, like their dirty skin gambling underbelly.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

People like you can't seem to differentiate wanting solid criticisms of Valve and Steam rather than just theory crafting all the worst things that can happen with them. The Steam hysteria makes no sense when its a storefront on open software platforms and the ones that are on closed software platforms aren't doing what people are gearing Valve would do whenever Gabe dies or if Valve went public

At least put effort into explaining why Steam will become this terribly blood sucking store on PC where people can download from numerous options as compared to platforms like Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, iOS where you don't have freedom to install anything you want. As a developer you can't just distribute software and have them installable.

If people that wanted to make people concerned about Steam put more effort into their arguments, maybe people on Lemmy would give their concerns more credence. It's surprising that on Lemmy, people who seem to value art and expression so much are so bad at expressing why people should be concerned about what they are concern about

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy is not a person

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically, Lemmy was a person.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Most criticism of valve on Lemmy reads like blatant shilling.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

God so many people dont understand what a monopoly actually is. Listen carefully: despite the name MONOPOLY DOESN'T MEAN ONE!

You boot licking capitalist just can't get past this. God i wish the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt could arise to beat some sense into all of you.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

If we call Steam a monopoly, then we also shall name Nestle a monopoly.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

A very "gamer" headline and title card. Not in a good way.

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