Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam
atro_city@fedia.io 1 day agoNo 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.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
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.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
And no one will do anything to stop it—just hoping and praying that Gabe doesn’t die or turns ‘evil’ to them.
atro_city@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Well, I'm not buying Steam games anymore, so I'm doing my part 🤷