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YongYea; Execs Stupidly Claim Steam Has A Monopoly And Get Mocked... (www.youtube.com)
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[+] -6 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Technically a monopoly means that a singular entity has or produces all of something. So to meet the definition of a monopoly they would have to have 100% market share.

Google was declared a monopoly in practice because they were using their market dominance to negatively impact other companies despite not having 100% market share like Microsoft and a bunch of other companies before them. That was about being so dominant and abusing it that action will be taken to keep them from becoming a literal monopoly.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe "technically", but not practice or in law. Google was not being prevented from becoming a monopoly, they were declared a monopoly.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    alright then Valve uses their market dominance to negatively impact other companies, much better

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    They literally never went a millimeter out of their way to negatively impact another competing storefront.

    Valve's success can be almost summed up as "does nothing, wins" because the competition to steam has been piss poor.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Competition like GOG or itch isn't "piss poor", they offer exactly the features their customers expect.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    What does valve do to prevent itch and gog from having a fair shot at competiting if they scrounged up the investors to develop up a competing platform? They offer the features their customers expect and that customer base has so far proven to be a much smaller market

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The others have been improving for a bit but GOG and itch have been focused on niche markets while Steam has grown broadly using the money from valve's early successes. If they want to step up to the kind of scale steam operates at, it will take a lot to overcome the innate loyalty of 'I already have 1000 games worth of time and money invested in the steam system,' and grow their repertoire outside their niches. Epic and Ubisoft also have tried, but they're still trying to catch up to where steam has been plugging along for ages. Epic has tried to build out their own version of the '1000 games' moat by giving out constant free games but their moat still isn't that big, and ubisoft has been relying mostly on having a few exclusives, but that hasn't really been a winning plan either because it's not enough to get people to think 'I want a game,' means 'go to origin,' instead of 'check to see if i already have it on steam.'

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That is not true. Valve requires that you do not sell your games cheaper on other platforms, hindering competition.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago

    That has never been true.

    You can even "buy" open source software on Steam that is available free from the home website.

    You're referring to the case with the developers of Lugaru, and they've been doing a great job of painting their fuckup as Valve barring platform competition.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, they don't want you selling Steam keys for cheap on other platforms.

    Valve actually doesn't earn anything from steam key sales. They don't take the 30% cut on those, only on sales made in the Steam store. The only requirement Valve puts up is that you don't start selling these steam keys (which are provided for free) cheaper than you can purchase the game in the Steam store.

    I don't see that hindering competition at all. It basically allows other marketplaces to sell Steam games, enabling competition in the first place.

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