>Steam is a monopoly>I agree, when will someone make a store with steams features and customer service?>Surprised pikachu faceCircle of life bros
they don't HAVE to use steam
>user reviews?>refunds?>shopping carts?>why are you piggy gamers such racist ande semides?>my dead granmother was in the holocaust she just turned 89
>Most of the developers surveyed were C-suite level.Reminder that Anti-Steam cultists are everywhere. They even side with C-suite executives.
>>729267048This is first monopoly ever that turned out to be a good thing
>>729267048The vintage story guy seems to be able to self-host just fine. Even has a equivalent or better version of steam workshop.
>>729267048Monopoly aka safeguarding gaming from the globohomos
it's amonopoly because steam won't advertise my metaphor for depression narrative experience on the front page every day for a month!
>>729267501>Monopoly aka safeguarding gaming from the globohomosgabe bent the knee to globohomo with sweet baby inc
>Monopoly is when you offer a better service than your competition.
>>729267387Most companies that built a monopoly are a good thing for consumers at first. That's how they became dominant in the first place.
I think it's funny that vidya companies didn't care until there was a sudden resurgence in PC gaming. Oh you have a problem with Steam NOW? Get fucked.
>>729267532Even if a genuinely good service popped up, would many people even make the switch? Not many people would want to lose their library.
>>729267531Nah, they turned around and declared war on jewshttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/lawyer-for-patent-owner-suing-valve-apologizes-for-ai-errors
>>729267680You don't lose your Steam library when you buy games on a different store.
>>729267680>Not many people would want to lose their library.your steam account doesn't get deactivated if you use another service kek
>>729267761Gabe Newell was the guy who tried to fight against the European Union because they were gonna force them to implement refunds or they wouldn't be allowed to operate there
Gog has a better refund policy than steam.I don't care about social media features in my vidya store.
>>729268105EA launcher or origin as it was called back then was doing refunds from the getgoAnd they were even letting you refund hours after you played the game
>>729267980>>729267986Even so, it'd be pointless to have two platforms when one already works well enough and has more games. It'd be a risky maneuver for any potential startups.
>>729267262Those first two are probably the reason steam has such a huge market share
>>729268250GoG works just fine along with Steam
>72 percent of devs are retardedThis is how lack of gatekeeping looks like.The consequences of making game dev too accessible.
>>729268387Steam was forced basically at gunpoint to do refunds in 2015If the European union weren't such totalitarian sissies gabe would let you get duped by that company that swore the game was gonna have all those advertised features
>>729267048More results from this study.
>>729267048That's like complaining about youtube being a monopoly. It's not, the alternatives are just ass, driving virtually all consumers to one place.
>>729269071What about rumble?Adleast you can snort coke and say naughty words there as long as you don't bomb a federal building
>>729269071Not a good comparison considering Jewgle gets corporate favouritism and has major ties to DARPA and a bunch ton of other shady people
>>729267262gog has that
>>729268820>19% of people do not give a fuck about steam being a monopolyfunny
>>729269713gog also has a stupid name, thought not as stupid as epic games store
>>729267680That's not a monopoly
Steam would have a monopoly on the PC market if they were the only store on the platform, like Apple, Sony or Microsoft with their hardware. Steam doesn't even do this with their hardware. You can buy a game from GOG, Epic or whatever launcher supports Linux on a Deck. The fact that most people use Steam because it has the best customer service, user reviews and is the most convenient service doesn't make it a monopoly. Make a better service.
>>729267048Most game I got this year were from DLsite, so yeah, it's not a monopoly.
>>729267610>22 yearsGabe is really taking his sweet time to go the proper monopoly way
>>729267387>This is first monopoly ever that turned out to be a good thingBecause it isn't a monopoly.
