You went straight from 'they don't have a monopoly' to 'they don't abuse their monopoly' in literally the next sentence. This topic is bewildering to discuss, because everyone not simply acknowledging 'yes of course the one store with like ninety percent of sales is a monopoly' is trying to juggle several conversations they'd rather be having. I often come to regret mentioning Epic or consoles because people pivot into criticism like I offered any form of defense.

Look: I have an NES homebrew that opens with the Yuzu logo and the words "never give Nintendo money." I've been yelling about Apple's enforced censorship since 2007. I've called for Google to be broken up for at least ten years. You do not need to tell me what an abusive monopoly looks like, in this thread where I am explicitly making the distinction between abusive monopolies and just plain having a monopoly.

There's other subthreads saying Valve succeeds "despite capitalism." People get so fucking weird about this company, because they refuse to believe that a corporation can do normal business and still be fine.