Valve allegedly threatened to delist all editions of Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft offered a cheaper option on its Uplay store.
Yeah.
Because it violates their policy.
And that policy only exists because monopoly enables them to set anti-trust/anti-competitive practices and further cement their position by ruining competition’s chances.
Imagine there’s a huge fuel station that’s so big they essentially set rules towards suppliers that they can’t offer their gas to other stations at a cheaper price otherwise they can’t sell it in their station with 95% market share.
If you don’t see a problem with this as a customer, then don’t forget to support your local billionaire by paying a 30% fee for each game purchase (and that 30% cut also exists due to no one being able to take on steam, ridiculous amount of money).
I’m slowly getting tires of gamers defending Gabe like he’s Jesus when in reality valve is a corporation doing corporation things.
we’re talking gaming, of which pc is a niche. a shrinking one at that. nobody is claiming sony has a monopoly on the ps5, ubisoft and wb are seemingry happy to pay them.
but valve created steam, which the publishers willingly signed up for even though both ubisoft and wb games have been on pc for longer than valve has.
i think that graph also needs mobile to get the full picture, but i’ll concede that i based my statement on old numbers. the market share seems to be holding steady. still, 40% seems about right.
by the way, i’m using “niche” to mean “smaller part of”, maybe that’s not the correct usage. blame esl.
And that policy only exists because monopoly enables them to set anti-trust/anti-competitive practices and further cement their position by ruining competition’s chances.
Imagine there’s a huge fuel station that’s so big they essentially set rules towards suppliers that they can’t offer their gas to other stations at a cheaper price otherwise they can’t sell it in their station with 95% market share.
If you don’t see a problem with this as a customer, then don’t forget to support your local billionaire by paying a 30% fee for each game purchase (and that 30% cut also exists due to no one being able to take on steam, ridiculous amount of money).
I’m slowly getting tires of gamers defending Gabe like he’s Jesus when in reality valve is a corporation doing corporation things.
40% of the market is not a monopoly.
It’s 75-79.5% depending on what data you use. Quite a big mistake on your part.
of the pc market, yes. that’s like calling tesla a monopoly when they sold 75% of electric cars.
Are we not talking about PC market? Steam is a PC platform. What are you even talking about then? Steam market share on PS5?
we’re talking gaming, of which pc is a niche. a shrinking one at that. nobody is claiming sony has a monopoly on the ps5, ubisoft and wb are seemingry happy to pay them.
And Valve didn’t create PC. What a bizzare argument.
What a bizzare argument. Nearly half is “niche”? Shrinking?
You people become weird when defending corporations.
but valve created steam, which the publishers willingly signed up for even though both ubisoft and wb games have been on pc for longer than valve has.
i think that graph also needs mobile to get the full picture, but i’ll concede that i based my statement on old numbers. the market share seems to be holding steady. still, 40% seems about right.
by the way, i’m using “niche” to mean “smaller part of”, maybe that’s not the correct usage. blame esl.
Monopoly implies there are no alternatives. There are plenty of alternatives. People just choose Steam because the other ones are (mostly) crap.