• AlexanderESmith
    link
    fedilink
    24 months ago

    The nuance that you’re missing is why they don’t matter, not that they don’t.

    It’s not Valve’s job to slow down for them.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -14 months ago

      Who asked them to?

      Being a monopoly is not a crime. Not in itself. But it’s still a thing, and it’s not complicated, and Valve has one.

      Why Steam’s competitors do not matter… does not matter.

      What makes Steam a monopoly is that they don’t matter.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          04 months ago

          My guy, even the first sentence on Wikipedia specifies “unfair” monopolies.

          There’s like five clarifications just in the Background section about how it doesn’t cover businesses which capture the whole market simply by being the better choice. Those are still monopolies. By definition. Mono meaning one and poly meaning how are we still talking about this?