PC Gaming

12650 readers

458 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

Be Respectful.
No Spam or Porn.
No Advertising.
No Memes.
No Tech Support.
No questions about buying/building computers.
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca

UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved (www.gamereactor.eu)

submitted 4 hours ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

48 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Saying it's a monopoly doesn't mean it needs solving. Anti-competitive behavior is a problem - but being a monopoly doesn't require that abuse, and you don't need a monopoly to exercise that abuse.

Yet people get deeply fricking weird about saying it's a monopoly.

It's naked taboo. It's people feeling icky about a word, and actively refusing to engage in rational argument about meaning. When someone has dogmatically internalized that monopoly=bad and Steam=good, the text doesn't matter. Even pointing out things they just said gets dismissed as some kind of attack against The Good Store.™

We have to start from plain acknowledge that Steam's competitors do not matter. They are plentiful and irrelevant. Explaining why they are doesn't change that they are.