STOP giving the COnsuMer WHAt they WANTTTTT!!!!!NOOOOOOOO MY SLOPCORE BUSINESS CANT COMPETE WITH ACTUAL GOODS AND SERVICES.
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Not true. Look at how they handled their anti-gambling lawsuit. They essentially did away with cases and keys, and now you can "open a terminal". You aren't gambling according to steam anymore, since you can decline the offer, but because this decline accept mechanic is baked into a dynamic pricing, you are now required to pay steam an average of 1700 usd for a pair of digital gloves, if you even get the offer.
They got rid of "gambling" for something much worse
Many things can be true at once. Is it true that Steam controls a dominating share of the PC gaming market? Yes. Is it true that when a company enters such a market position, that they can use that position to engage in anti-competitive and anti-consumer behaviour? Yes. Has Valve actually engaged in such behaviour? No.
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Leave the multi billion dollar corporation alone
I mean, this meme is not wrong. Valve is a de facto monopoly because everyone else is shit, and user hostile. But, a monopoly is still a monopoly, and we shouldn't be glazing a billion dollar company, in any circumstances. And it's not like Valve has never done anything wrong.
It's ok to like Valve, I like Valve. But we need to hold them to account, and call them out when they do something wrong. And if you really think Valve did nothing wrong in this case, why not let them prove it in court? They have a lot of money, they can afford some lawyers.
Valve is a de facto monopoly
Is it, though? I can buy games on gog, on itch.io, on epic (but that would require me to use epic, lol), or maybe on humble bundle (took a quick look, mentioned steam keys, not sure).
I thought that "monopoly" meant that a company has exclusive control in their market which clearly doesn't apply here.
Either way, it'll be interesting (and maybe infuriating) to see how the court arguments pan out.
I mean we say Google has a monopoly on search, but there are bing, duckduckgo, kagi, etc. You are thinking absolute monopoly.
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people fellating valve will never get less disgusting. have some shame and self respect.
All launchers mustdie and devs need to go back to selling their games directly.
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