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Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It's 75-79.5% depending on what data you use. Quite a big mistake on your part.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    of the pc market, yes. that's like calling tesla a monopoly when they sold 75% of electric cars.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Are we not talking about PC market? Steam is a PC platform. What are you even talking about then? Steam market share on PS5?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    we're talking gaming, of which pc is a niche. a shrinking one at that. nobody is claiming sony has a monopoly on the ps5, ubisoft and wb are seemingry happy to pay them.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    nobody is claiming sony has a monopoly on the ps5

    And Valve didn't create PC. What a bizzare argument.

    we're talking gaming, of which pc is a niche

    What a bizzare argument. Nearly half is "niche"? Shrinking?

    You people become weird when defending corporations.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago*

    but valve created steam, which the publishers willingly signed up for even though both ubisoft and wb games have been on pc for longer than valve has.

    i think that graph also needs mobile to get the full picture, but i'll concede that i based my statement on old numbers. the market share seems to be holding steady. still, 40% seems about right.

    by the way, i'm using "niche" to mean "smaller part of", maybe that's not the correct usage. blame esl.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Yes because the other platforms are worse in every single fucking way. You can’t say oh it’s this huge awful monopoly when it’s only that because the rest purposely fucking suck to make as much money as possible (gog is fine).

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