Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoFirst 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?
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.
well, i guess if they stop them from being monopoly it lowers the risk of valve going bad
Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn't the goal here.
only way to stop them from being monopoly would require anti-consumer actions, penalizing them for providing better service than others (which is what i assume is the goal of the “competitors” such as epic so they dont have to provide good service to compete).
Imo, these things should always be done user interests first, companies will manage always anyway. In the worst case the ceo can buy few yacts less.
But yeah, Valve going bad would be a catastrophe for gaming.
And no one will do anything to stop it—just hoping and praying that Gabe doesn’t die or turns ‘evil’ to them.
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 21 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 21 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.
ski11erboi@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Jesus okay sorry. I miss lemmy before redditers showed up.