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Thirdborne@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Listen. Some of us have our life savings in our Steam library. If competition ever drives Steam bankrupt, we go down with the ship! We take Steam’s health personally and very seriously. Your mumbo jumbo about competition doesn’t factor into it.

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Aux@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s why you buy from GOG.

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c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No one wants Steam bankrupt, they just want more than one videogame vendor on PC to be viable.

“Mumbo jumbo about competition” I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or are just legitimately a braindead moron.

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- Thirdborne@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There are exceptions to the notion that competition is good. If we attempt to map out all the exceptions, we will be left with mumbo jumbo. Economic libertarianism is the true death of the brain. Some monopolies are good and any threat to the monopoly is a threat to the consumer.
  
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  - c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    As I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, the only bad competition is one that gets subsidized in order to survive. If they are operating on their own profit margins then they are definitionally “good competition.”
    
    No, zero monopolies are good. If you can even name one that you personally believe to somehow be good then I can explain why you’re wrong.
    
    At no point in time has a natural diversification of product sources has been bad for the consumer. The only exceptions to this relate back to point #1, the subsidized or otherwise “assisted” business model.
    
    Any threat to the monopoly is a threat to the consumer
    
    Tell me, does your childhood home have a lot of lead paint on the walls? We aren’t trying to take down Steam FFS, just provide alternatives that force them to stay competitive by giving better service to the consumer.
    
    The fact that you think a second source for videogames is somehow going to threaten you personally just shows how much of a zombie you are. Gabe isn’t your lord and savior, he’s just another rich guy who has a monopoly on his corner of the market. Grow the fuck up.
    
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