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rtxn@lemmy.world 5 months agoSuccess is not illegal. Valve isn’t buying up smaller competing storefronts, or paying off developers for exclusivity, or burying competition in legal fees and prepared 80-page lawsuits. The only thing holding back real competition is the competing platforms being dogshit.
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Leveraging dominant position to keep your monopoly is illegal even in the US.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Allegations of leveraging a dominant market position doesn’t mean its actually happening.
Kedly@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Valve had nothing to do with its competitors being garbage
tyler@programming.dev 5 months ago
What are they doing to leverage their dominant position?
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
At some point you’re so entrenched in the market you don’t have to do anything anymore. I was quite surprised that Valve somehow evaded EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper criteria. That would mean they’d have to ensure interoperability with its competitors which would restart competition, similar to how we got rid of telecom monopolies.
tyler@programming.dev 5 months ago
Ok but you made a claim that they were leveraging their market position to maintain a monopoly. So please describe how they are doing that in any way shape or form.