>Steam is a monopoly Damn, can't remember the last time a monopoly was in last place.
It was in 2021
>>739881813Bait used to at least have some effort put in. Crop out the top part with the year mentioned next time.
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>>739881813i don't think you comprehend what a monopoly is
>>739881813Steam is a monopoly. It has the biggest MMORPG...oh wait that's on Battle Net. It has the biggest FPS...oh wait that's on Battle Net. It has the biggest Battle Royal...oh wait that's on Epic Game Store. It has the biggest game in the world...oh wait Microsoft hasn't put it on Steam. Well...uh...
>>739881813also tencent and sony are like, bigger than their gaming division, right? Dunno about where xbox gets it's revenue from tho. Maybe game publishing deals.Also valve earns a noticeable chunk of the money from in game microtransactions.
>>739883504It also has the highest market share of all online game stores, dwarfing everyone else.Aka. Its a monopoly.
>>739884295Maybe somebody should've honestly competed with them. Where's Games for Windows Live???
>>739883504>It has the biggest Battle Royal...oh wait that's on Epic Game StorePUBG is currently more popular than Fortnite Battle Royale, but Fortnite as a whole is more popular because it has become a Roblox ripoff.
>>739884295Lets say it is what of it?What monopolistic practices has Valve implemented?Oh right now.>muh keysYou can sell your game on your own store with your own distribution system cheaper than steam all you want.
>>739884994>What monopolistic practices has Valve implemented?They're... successful... and popular!
>>73988466380% of PUBG's playerbase is Chinese
>>739885113mother fuckers, how dare they
Is Chrome a monopoly? What about Google search or Youtube? Is Microsoft a monpoly?
>>739885438>Is Microsoft a monpoly?MS is a monopoly, yes, they've been indicted for anti-competitive practices multiple times and even lost. Apple is the only minor thorn in their side when it comes to operating systems and it isn't a problem for them at all. The only reason they aren't held responsible for it more often is because they pay people off and have unlimited money. They once outspent the IRS in a court battle and won because the IRS department ran out of money and had to drop the case.
>>739885438Yes to all. 70% market share is typically around the point at which something is called a monopoly. It does not mean it is an illegal monopoly which is the distinction.
>>739881813Timmy has always been a cocksucker
>>739881813how many of those are just storefronts
>>739885665A monopoly is something that no other company can do besides the one that got assigned to, if they do state violence will occur you fucking retard, it has nothing to do with market share.Even if Steam had 100% market share it wouldn't still be a monopoly because anyone can still enter the same market as Steam and won't be met with state violence.Retarded nigger
>>739881813Okay, if Valve doesn't have the PC monopoly who does OP?
>>739886438Valve has the majority of the PC market, but that's not what makes something a monopoly, dipshit.
>>739883109you mean like how nintendo finally got their switch 2 selling like hotcakes and tencent consolidated even more of the asian market?
>>739886365none
>>739881813damn they earned 7 bucks?
>steam is the biggest pc gayming platform>somehow makes less money than ea and activejewshow?
>>739886661Probably helps that valve doesn't really need to chase more and more money to please shareholdeers and investors 24/7.
>>739881813>revenueRevenue doesn't mean anything.You can have 6 gorillion dollars of revenue and 7 gorillion dollars of expenses
>>739884295largest share isn't a monopoly, dum-dumowning 100% of a market is
>>739884994I think you don't get the monopoly. Steam is a monopoly. but there's nothing illegal just being a monopoly. It is illegal to abuse your power as monopoly.
>>739886661Remember, EA and Activision tried to complain that Steam were taking too much money from them lmao
>>739881813but think about the yacht you steamies
>>739884663Amazing that after all this time and me assuming it was dead and after Epic ripping their design off with fun graphics after getting paid by them for extensive tech support making it in Unreal...PUBG still WINNED because the Fortnite kids grew up.
You tell them meanies, sis! Protect daddy Gaben at all costs from those meanie console peasants!!!!
>>739886661they also make and publish games, also microtransactions. Also also steam pays all of the local taxes and other stuff from their 30% cut, not from publisher's 70%. Like, other storefronts 100% do the same, but it does mean that steam makes even less money.
>>739889137>valve>make games
>>739889263That's like what i was referring to, dumbass. EA and actibliz publish games, unlike valve.
>>739883345>SegaWhat's keeping it alive? Sonic? Phantasy star? Drugs?
>>739889572their local business 100%. arcades i think, maybe other stuff also.
>>739886518When the cucks refuse to use anything else? Yeah it's a monopoly, moron
>>739890563look up what monopoly means, snoygger.
>>739885645>They once outspent the IRS in a court battle and won because the IRS department ran out of money and had to drop the case.So you're telling me that if a rich person does something illegal now, he can literally just bankrupt the other party until the charges are dropped?
I thought EA went bankrupt or something. I can't remember the last time they released a game
>>739890890Yes. They can also get congress to defund the people investigating them.>The company also turned to its friends in Congress for help. In May 2015, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, then the chair of the committee that oversees the IRS, and who counted Microsoft as one of his top campaign contributors, fired off a letter to the IRS commissioner about “outsourcing” the agency’s audit of “a corporate taxpayer.” That “appears to violate federal law and the express will of the Congress,” he wrote, and the $2.2 million contract “calls into question the IRS’ use of its limited resources.” By that time, Republicans in Congress had cut the IRS’ budget by $1.5 billion from its 2010 peak.30 billion in back taxes btw, and that's just what they can track
>>739889572Sonic still sells, Personafags are retarded and deplorable, and they still do good money on the arcades.
>>739881813>game companies>crAppleWhat? What games do they make?
Steamies really are just troons, same disingenous bullshit in every argument.
>>739886661because steams gets it from being the store, the other companies sell actual games and crap related to it.>>739892862they don't have to make games to make money off them. just like steam it's apple store payments
>>739889572>he doesn't know
>>739881813>7 billions by doing absolutely nothing
>>739885438Remember when Firefox used to be the top dog?
>>739893386What's your argument?>>739893695
>>739894584It was never was, it was objectively the best browser in the 2000’s but normalfags used internet explorer until chrome released and killed everything else
>>739895458He doesn't have an argumentJust wants to ragebait about Valve.
