Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam

• atro_city@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn't the goal here.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, I'm not buying Steam games anymore, so I'm doing my part 🤷

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      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That doesn’t actually do anything…

        Opting out of buying from a service only hurts them when the service is anti consumer.

        When the service is large due to pro consumer reasons then not buying just hurts yourself.

        An anti consumer service relies on momentum to maintain it self. Hoping people are too lazy to leave. Since growing the customer base is near impossible with out dirty tactics.

        A pro consumer service grows regardless, since it’s the best option. It doesn’t have to do dirty things to grow a customer base since by default the other options are worse.

        If you just stop buying games entirely then you also do not matter you removed yourself entire from the equation.

        You would need to start buying games from non valve sources that are in direct competition with valve. So things like the Amazon store, Uplay, etc.

        Which do the same things and worse.

        Functionally you do not get a choice of voting with your wallet. Because it doesn’t apply here.

        So all your doing is being stupid at worse and nothing at best for the cause.

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