AwesomeLowlander comments on YongYea; Execs Stupidly Claim Steam Has A Monopoly And Get Mocked...

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

There's no good competitors because the money isn't there to build one. [...] Would take tens of billions of dollars today to get in there on top of having near feature parity.

This is ridiculous bullshit. Epic had shitloads of money, they just couldn't find their ass with both hands. It took them years to implement a freaking shopping cart.

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Epic's incompetence doesn't matter to me. Find me another alternative that isn't riding on the coattails of pre-existing billions in revenue.

Fortnite makes exponentially more than their DD platform.

GOG is the closest thing to a competitor imo but their philosophy restricts them from really competing on day 1 game sales outside of a minority of titles.

Everybody else is a seller of adult games, indie titles, or simply a key seller for steam games.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Find me another alternative that isn't riding on the coattails of pre-existing billions in revenue.

Why would I? I'm not making any claims myself, merely pointing out the ridiculousness of yours.

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You didn't do that though. I said for a competitor to come along that they would need to sink tens of billions of dollars, like uber did. I fail to see how this is a ridiculous statement. Epic being incompetent doesn't have any relation to what a real competitor would need to do to gain a foothold with say a meager 25% of valve's share.

Epic didn't do enough to gain serious market share. They haven't given up but I don't see them making any inroads without further investment to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. They literally need to build up their platform to be substantially cheaper (e.g. by offering subsidies) while also making it fit for use (by spending way more money on quality devs.) They haven't... and nobody cares except folks like you who think they're a serious competitor as justification for white knighting for valve. lol

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Love the ad hominems, do keep them coming 🙄

folks like you who think they're a serious competitor

Yeah that's exactly what my bashing of their pathetic excuse at a storefront was implying.

tens of billions of dollars, like uber did

You're comparing the cost of building a simple software platform (and face it, Steam isn't THAT complicated to replicate from a technical perspective) to a company hiring tens of millions of people worldwide for billions of man hours and hardware depreciation. Your estimates are so unrealistic it's hilarious.

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