The executives at game industry's c-suite have spoken. Steam IS a monopoly. https://archive.is/emgsI
>>724963157posted it again award
>>724963157That's like that video games lobby group that said shutting down games is good when Stop Killing Games was gaining too much traction.
>>724963157SAAAAAAAR STOP MONOPOLY NOOOOOOOOW
lol
>SophieTroon vibes.
>>724963157Why should I care? All my games are on steam. I don't want more bloatware on my pc. I don't want to save extra downloaders or go to my email everytime I want to play a game. Steam is privately owned so it's less subject to the same garbage that nintendo sony etc are. Genuinely tell me why I should care.
Natural monopoly is impossible to avoid if you are so good at your services/goods.However, the fallacy here is what these shitty jurnos imply in this articel - they are literally compare Steam to Amazon who would bully, threaten or outright buy and destroy small successfull sellers: https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ILSR_PopEdforIndependentBusinessOwner.pdfEveryone on this board knows this was never the case with Steam so why is this disingenuous discussion?
>>724963157"No one uses Epic or buys discs at Gamestop" does not make Steam a monopoly. Steam does not prevent games from being sold elsewhere. Steam has never paid for exclusivity from an outside publisher. There's lots of shit to criticize Steam for but the competition has no one to blame but themselves.Amazon has a net value of roughly 2.6 Trillion dollars, Microsoft has 3.8 trillion, Valve has about 60 billion. We're talking about companies that are 50-100 times the size of Valve, companies that have direct access to hundreds of millions if not billions of existing users, and they can't offer a better service than Valve does. That's not a monopoly, that's incompetence.
>>724963157Steam should be a monopoly. Wouldn't want something like Epic being significant.
>>724964067> and they can't offer a better serviceWont. They wont because their usual service is to rip off people in every way possible. And you cant do this on the market where Valve and Steam is because people would look at that shit and say "nah fuck off" and stay better alternative. Alternative, these retards simply can't do in a financially viable way
im glad that reality is based on what people believe and not what is actually a fact.
>gives 72% of devs a convenient platform to distribute their games worldwide
This is the 3RD fucking thread you make after people IMMEDIATELY called you out on this article being a bunch of bullshit >>724949836https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/724955346/#724955880>survey conducted by Rokky>Rokky, a company whose main selling point is "Expand sales of your PC game beyond Steam. Sell game keys to 200+ global storefronts simultaneously with Rokky. Enjoy revenue increases of up to 100%." conducts a survey that results in a whitepaper that states that expanding your sales beyond Steam is beneficial for you.Reminder that 3rd world EGS shills have been spamming this board for YEARS and mods still don't try to ban this obvious paid spam
>>724965135You got a full res version of the edited 'toss comic. I can't read it
>>724963157i think the entire c-suite can suck my c-sweet
>>724965465https://arch.b4k.dev/_/search/image/veRbvnedk5236XyDni1r0w/
>>724963157they are idiots thena monopoly means there is zero competition or choice.there are tons of other places you can buy video games digitally.thats like saying walmart is a monopoly, it isnt
>>724965617They all 404 but thanks I do appreciate the effort
>>724963157>video game executivesWho the fuck cares what video game CEOs think or want? These are the people who want to turn the entire industry into live service gacha paywalls.>>724964067>That's not a monopoly, that's incompetence.Also, this.Epic has had nearly a decade to get their shit together. Rather than being competent at what they do and making a functional storefront, they've tried to buy their way into getting people onto their storefront. People don't use Steam because they prefer Valve over Epic Games. People use Steam because it's a better service than EGS.Microsoft and Amazon are just pissed that they can't be the monopoly that everybody uses. They would very much like to make their games exclusive and force everybody onto their platform. The problem is that they lose so many sales in doing so, so they put the games on Steam instead.
there already is a thread about it you fucking nigger>>724949836
>>724965846I actually saved it from the archive years ago
>epic and amazon have all the money in the world to just copy steam and break up this so called monopoly>they still refuse because the upfront costs would be too disruptive to muh quarterliesnot my problem
>>724966005Tysm. Epic shills are genuinely retarded. I guess they don't realize that if a platform is desperate to get you to sell on their store exclusively it's probably not just to "benefit you"
>>724965135Mods even pointed out that most Epic store giveaway threads were posted using proxies.https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/490729571/#490737959I assume Tim then slid them a paycheck to look the other way.
>>724963753Lmao, not sure if Valve directly pays shills or they just realized that they already have enough insanely vocal cult shills, but I remember when you guys were posting chinese gore videos on /v/ for days 0/24 when EGS was announced, claiming it was a chinese spyware software spying on you (using blatant lies to "prove it"), that Epic is majority owned by China (which is already incorrect but it was spread at the height of US's anti-china propaganda campaign), and all this shit also went viral on reddit, youtube, etc. If you even slightly appeared to be critical of Valve you instantly got a dozen (You)s labelling you a Chinese spy/shill. At the same time they were doing the most desperate mental gymnastics to justify how Valve deserves taking away 1/3 of PC gaming's revenue for running a webstore, pretending that Valve is "pro consumer" while literally leeching away 1/3 of the money the consumers pay for the production of their games.It was fucking absurd watching this shit play out, never saw such a coordinated "negative shilling" campaign come so fucking out of nowhere. Amazon doesn't have an army like this, nor does any other monopoly-like entity defending it. Again, not sure of Valve secretly plays a role in manufacturing this (some ex-Valve employees did call out Gaben for being a manipulator who also bragged about successfully manipulating the press) or they just realized that they have an actual cult defending them and just enjoy spending the gaming industry's revenue on billion$ yacht armadas instead of just lowering their taxes on it, as these retards will straight up praise them for being leeches.
>>724963157All of these companies complaining about Steam but none of them have the gaul to compete with it. And I don’t mean slapping on a storefront and calling it a day. Steam started out with a suite of PC games (L4D, HL, CS, TF). Companies need to actually make content instead of riding on their one memberberry game that’s littered with microtransactions and a battlepass.
>>724967926>you guys are the real shills, not us!Do you really think anyone is falling for this?
>>724968193Why would the Chinese botnet that makes all their money from selling gambling to children lie to me?
Jews are seething at good service
>>724963482>>724963482>>724963482>>724963482thread ended right here, everyone sage and go home, this is a shill thread, not a conversation
>>724968343>Chinese botnet that makes all their money from selling gambling to childrenbut enough about cs2
>>724968193Again, you were the ones who did a giant coordinated misinformation campaign during EGS's announcement, not the other way around
>>724968514CS2 isn't for children. It's for bug people who aren't allowed to buy any more houses or stocks.
>>724963157kill yourself jews could never provide such a pure service like steamconsumers are not stupidthe same game up on egs will not sell and only be bought by gamers when its on steam because steam provides better service and a better value overall than any competitorthe competitors either need to make something good or dieegs has tried for nearly more than a decade and STILL lack basic community store and functionspathetic
