Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 20 hours agoWhy is it a monopoly? Epic, Xbox, Amazon, and more exist…they just don’t follow the steam template nor invest in their platform as much as steam does. 🤷♂️ how is Valve acting in an anti-competitive way?
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 16 hours ago
Good lord valve fanboys are insufferable. Of any other company controlled 80%-90% of sales in one sector if the economy you wouldn’t hesitate to call what it is, a monopoly.
As if you aren’t aware that tons of AAA only launch on steam.
Fluke@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
No-one is forcing certain titles to only release on Steam, that is the developer/publisher’s choice, to make their own lives less complicated. Perhaps they’ve run the numbers and reckon that Steam’s cut is cheaper than doing all the infrastructure (and everything else steam does) themselves?
Your argument essentially boils down to; You’re angry that Etsy is a “monopoly” because the guy who sells particular shirts you like only sells via an Etsy storefront thing.