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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (26 children)

A monopoly is a monopoly. Just because Steam is a good store today doesn’t mean they deserve to hold a monopoly over the pc gaming market. So what happens when Valve has crushed every competitor? Gamers and devs have nowhere to go if Steam turns to shit. Eventually there will be a change of guards at Valve’s C-suite when Gaben retires or is dead. There is a good chance that those new execs will hollow out Steam and extract all the value out of it for their own benefit by screwing over the customers and developers. And they can get away with that if there is no competition. Competition is what keeps Valve in check.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Ubisoft, Epic etc.. have done nothing to make the market better or make it more healthy. Epic is even more anti competitive than it's competition.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

Doesn’t matter. It’s still competition. They motivate Valve to create a better store and keep it that way. Since that is Valve’s unique selling point and what distinguishes them from the competition. Therefore I believe devs should make their games available on every storefront. Not just the best one, to give customers a choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Tell that to Epic.

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