Will their monopoly ever end?
no such thing as valve monopolywhen you stop being a fucking retard update your shit store and sell games cheaper than the competition
Go back to bed Tim
>>740296776maybe if those other stores didn't choose to shit the bed maybe valve would've had some actual competition.
>>740296841Thats not fair. EVEN if they have lower prices, you will stick to steam due to the sheer wide abundance of games.It is a a MONOPOLY.
>Will their monopoly ever end?Yeah, too pro consumer to exist legally in this industry.
>>740296776Make a better service, Timmy
>>740296776The easiest way to tell that the "steam = monopoly" argument is just corporate propaganda is that Nintendo, Xbox and Sony never receive this criticism despite having ACTUAL store monopolies on their respective consoles.
>>740296965>do a better storefront>"t-that's not FAIR!"what's not fair is the end user being subject of fucking barebones, slow and bloated stores because they can't be assed to fix their shit, oh no investment too expensive please understandand fuck you timmy, you and your rocks you autistic fuck
>>740296776If it ever does, that's the day gaming dies definitively and forever.
>>740296965i buy shit at aliexpress because its cheaper than everywhere elseits a monopoly too?
>>740296776when someone else who's a PC gamer CEO decides to make a storenot one of the other CEOs is a gamer
>>740296776Make a better service. Better for the end consumer, that is.
>>740297098Or EGS paying to keep games off of competitive storefronts that otherwise would be able to sell the product just fine because it is not a technical limitation.
The little hat tribe really isn't taking their loss well.
>>740296776yes, when someone invents something better. not when le happy merchant sweeney copies them like he did everything epic ever created and undercuts them by 2% lmao
September 12, 2003
>>740296776First it would have to begin. There are other storefronts and even consoles to get your games
>>740296776Yeah when Gabe dies and the company gets enshittifies by private equity
It's nothing really worthwhile video games shouldn't have competitors. Do you get mad at Toy Stores with monopolies?
>>740296776Lmao no.>Nobody wants to make another fucking account for some thing, just like nobody wants another fucking launcher.>No one trusts launchers from publishers that are definitely sticking in adware and probably sticking in spyware>Nobody trusts these new storefronts to consistently stick around to provide service when the average company will just shut down all their shit whenever they're tired of it or it makes it easier to sell a new thingMost importantly no one wants to deliver a better service, because that means having GOG-tier profit margins.Would it be difficult for a company to just have a decently programmed storefront with ZERO extra accountslop that just gives me a cryptographic key to save that I can use to download a DRM-free and launcher-free game from their service whenever I want with fucking wireguard or something? Probably not. Are they gonna do it? Also probably not.
Another day, another Tim Sweneey chimpout.
>genuine criticism>*schizo conspiracy theories and ad hominem insults begin*Why are valvegans like this?
>>740296776Steam will outlast you, Timmy. Fortnite's past its prime, and when that money dries up, both it and Epic will fall apart.
Take your meds, Tim.
>>740296776it will if they don't immediately revert the recent store page redesign
>>740297778>Fortnite's past its primeThe most recent season had its worst numbers ever. That bald retard really thought Fortnite would never die and didn't bother making new games to replace it.
>make good franchise>kill it>try to replace steam>fail at it>try to erase the franchise that put you in the map>expect anyone to give a fuck about your shit company/store other than underages playing your fortshite
Monopoly apologists will burn in hell.Glorious China is taking over your kiked inefficient markets as we speak.
>>740298181they are against jews and muslims so thats fine by me
>>740297979And people are pissed at UE5 and the upcoming UE6 for their shitty performance. Even the Lords of the Fallen guys told EGS to eat shit.Turns out poorfags greatly outnumbered the ones with 5070s and above.
>>740298591>Turns out poorfags greatly outnumbered the ones with 5070s and above.children and young adult literally can't afford 5070 pcs and dad gamers are irrelevant
>>740296965Ok and why do you suggest then?That Steam stops getting new games?If you need a store to stop its activities for others to be able to stand a chance, that's a skill issueThere's no Steam monopoly; people who want to use something else have that option>B-but it's not as good!! It's not fair!!Not Steam's problem>EVEN if they have lower prices, you will stick to steamWell, yeah, the same way console players stay on their favorite consoles even if the others are doing some things better
>>740296776No, because nearly all their competition are money-grubbing retards
>>740298591>Turns out poorfags greatly outnumbered the ones with 5070s and above.I could buy better components, but why would I bother? My GTX1070 runs Dying Light and Dishonored 2 perfectly, games are not substantially better looking than those at all, they're basically all UE5 slop at this point, and they have dogshit performance even on 5070 pcs. Every game worth playing in the last 10 years is an indie anyway, the AAA are just worse rehashes of older games.
>>740298000>try to erase the franchises that put you in the mapThat was what made me ditch Epic for good. The sheer disrespect towards the original Unreal games and Infinity Blade was so disgusting that I never touched Fortnite, and deleted his shit store from all my devices.He will burn in a hell of his own making.
>>740296776The moment their "monopoly" ends is the moment games become streaming only, paid for by the hour.
>>740298892The freaks of Ngreedia and Microslop would love that, but the vibe boil will pop and destroy them long before such horror becomes the norm.
I wish there was an alternative to Google Play store, because that is a true monopolist on Android. Their storefront is deliberately shit and frontloaded with shovelware and gacha, and they get away with it because they have no competition. If a serious competitor showed up with better games and service, Google would have to improve theirs.
>>740297536Toy stores are dead because Amazon killed them
>>740299621smart devices did thatnot amazon
>>740299286Reminder that Google is going to make it so Android devices literally will not run software that isn't on the Google Play Store starting in September. They're going to require Google Play certification as a "security measure" even for things you download and install outside of it.
not my problem that you picked the wrong platform, op. seek train; restore izzat.
>>740296776When Gabe dies and his son decides to "go public"
>>740296776Just make a better service, Timmy.
>>740297343imagine if steam launched one day sooner lol
https://youtu.be/xtXsQxe-wF0
>>7402970987 iq post
>>740296965thats not what a monopoly is, you can't proclaim something is a monopoly just because it provides the absolute best service, they don't do anything to actively harm competition outside of simply being better.
>>740298000don't forget tim sweeney actively harming linux and for some reason bought bandcamp just to downsize it, i genuinely think this man is the antichrist
>>740302854Valve reserves the right to remove your game from Steam if you offer lower prices on other platforms. You have to agree to this when you publish your game on Steam. It appears they selectively enforce this policy with unarticulated/secret rules that they don't share publicly or with developers for that matter.
>>740302974Don't forget him defending Grok making CPDon't forget him firing 2000 people Don't forget him jacking up Fortnite's prices after saying he was fighting Apple/Google/Valve to help lower pricesDon't forget him seething because Valve requires AI disclosuresDon't forget him saying his lawsuits were like the civil rights movement
