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[+] 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    YongYea has habit of first going over all the opinions and written stuff in articles before giving his own opinions and conclusions. It's... Just the way he does things. Some people consider that an in-depth overview.

    I think it's... Alright. I usually don't finish watching his vids when I get the point.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    It's not stupid. Monopoly does not mean there's no competition. Google has been legally declared a monopoly and they have tons of competition.

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    [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    Steam does a lot of shitty things — including using gambling mechanics on kids and failing to moderate the neo-nazi clubhouse that are their forums — but they are not a monopoly and do not behave in a monopolistic or anticompetitive manner whatsoever. Their success and market share is genuinely earned on merits.

    Personally, I would prefer GOG, but many games don’t release there, or release there much later. Epic could compete, but their heart is clearly not in it as they refuse to give customers features they want out of a platform and do engage in anticompetitive practices.

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  • [+] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)
  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    People like you can't seem to differentiate wanting solid criticisms of Valve and Steam rather than just theory crafting all the worst things that can happen with them. The Steam hysteria makes no sense when its a storefront on open software platforms and the ones that are on closed software platforms aren't doing what people are gearing Valve would do whenever Gabe dies or if Valve went public

    At least put effort into explaining why Steam will become this terribly blood sucking store on PC where people can download from numerous options as compared to platforms like Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, iOS where you don't have freedom to install anything you want. As a developer you can't just distribute software and have them installable.

    If people that wanted to make people concerned about Steam put more effort into their arguments, maybe people on Lemmy would give their concerns more credence. It's surprising that on Lemmy, people who seem to value art and expression so much are so bad at expressing why people should be concerned about what they are concern about

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago*

    God so many people dont understand what a monopoly actually is. Listen carefully: despite the name MONOPOLY DOESN'T MEAN ONE!

    You boot licking capitalist just can't get past this. God i wish the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt could arise to beat some sense into all of you.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    If we call Steam a monopoly, then we also shall name Nestle a monopoly.

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  • [+] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (19 children)

    Steam is 100% a monopoly, they just happen to be a benevolent monopoly... but like all, that can change.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Oh look, yet another person who doesn't understand what monopoly means.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    A commodity controlled by one party.

    Sometimes, there are many sellers or substitutes, but a single company still retains outsized market power — that's called monopolistic competition.

    A monopoly is a market structure with a single dominant seller in a particular industry.

    Sounds like Steam fits that description pretty well. I agree that steam isn't a strict monopoly, there is competition, but they are so far and ahead they still function as a monopoly in their area.

    Since you'd rather throw mud than talk terms, I guess that’s where this ends.

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