Okay, question: What do you want Valve to do about their “monopoly”? You can’t blame them for providing the most useful service while their main competition all collectively shoots themselves in the mouth. They aren’t out here abusing their “monopoly” to increase prices or drive away competition. In fact, they’re often cheaper due to better and more frequent sales. So what do they do about it?
That aside, they’re literally not a monopoly. By any actual definition on the word, they don’t meet the criteria to be a monopoly. There are other companies like Epic or GOG that provide the same games for the same prices that are easily available at all times online. Sure, Steam has more in the form of Early Access games and such, but again, it’s not Steam’s fault that their competition doesn’t provide a decent platform for devs of early access titles.
Imagine thinking valve isn’t an absolute monopoly in PC video game industry
Okay, question: What do you want Valve to do about their “monopoly”? You can’t blame them for providing the most useful service while their main competition all collectively shoots themselves in the mouth. They aren’t out here abusing their “monopoly” to increase prices or drive away competition. In fact, they’re often cheaper due to better and more frequent sales. So what do they do about it?
That aside, they’re literally not a monopoly. By any actual definition on the word, they don’t meet the criteria to be a monopoly. There are other companies like Epic or GOG that provide the same games for the same prices that are easily available at all times online. Sure, Steam has more in the form of Early Access games and such, but again, it’s not Steam’s fault that their competition doesn’t provide a decent platform for devs of early access titles.
I mean, it’s not. GOG is pretty decent too, at the very least.
– Frost