Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
People in the comments are vehemently supporting a monopolist because the monopolist is currently good. No wonder people are so easy to control. If you keep them distracted for long enough, you can take everything they own and they'll only notice once the lights go off and the chair stolen from underneath their fat asses.
We deserve Trump and every single politician we get because we're such a bunch of idiots.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
First we take down valves “monopoly”, then we yell hurray and watch all the other companies suddenly turn good?
What do you propose should be done?
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 day ago
First, Stopping a monopoly from doing monopolistic things isn’t the same as breaking up the monopoly…
Holding the biggest player accountable for shitty behavior sets a precedent that you’ll keep the rest from doing it, too.
Arguing that any other business would do the same thing in defense of this shitty action, doesn’t help anyone.
ski11erboi@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Agreed but the issue here is what are the monopolistic things things valve is doing. What’s the shitty behavior we’re trying to hold them accountable for?
Because if we break up a company for good behavior then we’re setting a precedent that other companies with good practices will be broken up too.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 22 hours ago
Literally no one but you has talked about breaking up/destroying the company.
Price fixing is what these lawsuits are all about. 4 of them now, that I’m aware of.
That’s the behavior being pushed against here. You’d have known that of you read the article. Or any of the others in the past few months as these come out. You should be against that. But your playing the ignorant just asking questions game as interference for the perpetrator instead.
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
No need to put monopoly in quotes. Owning 85% of the market is a monopoly. Do you want them to reach 100% for you to go "yep, now it's a monopoly, now we should do something"?
A monopoly doesn't need monopolistic behaviour to be a monopoly. The monopolistic behaviour Steam has is what's being targeted. If Steam were impeding competition in other ways, those would have to be dealt with too.
Just because you have a favourite friend, doesn't mean they can't do wrong.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
well, i guess if they stop them from being monopoly it lowers the risk of valve going bad
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day ago
Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn't the goal here.