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Well, if they get any market share in phones, that will mean the phone market will be less of a monopoly, not more.

And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming. They haven’t exploited that monopoly yet, but as companies go, it’s just a matter of time until something happens and changes that. That doesn’t make them getting into phones bad.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.

The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.

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- Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Two F2P games? Most sales happen on Steam, except those few rare examples.
  
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  - woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Most sales happen on Steam
    
    I literally already wrote that.
    
    except those few rare examples.
    
    Those “rare examples” combine to a massive revenue. In case of EGS and Fortnite, it’s very clear that EGS is installed and actively used on a giant number of PCs, so the installed base is there. It’s not a Steam monopoly if the user base signed up to and uses EGS for Fortnine and such.
    
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