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Tattorack

@ Tattorack @lemmy.world

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  • Find me a white bus driver in Copenhagen, I'll wait.

    Want me to start counting? I could start with the 8 bus drivers I went to kursus with at Langsøhus.

    Denmark is one of the fascist cores of the EU and sells its influence to the US in exchange for preferential treatment.

    Yes, that's why we were so glad to give away Greenland to the US. Oh wait...

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  • You absolutely are ahead of the fascist game, so far ahead that your billionaires are funding European fascists and emboldening them.

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  • Still can't fucking believe Denmark, my country, supports this. Yeah, it got revised thanks to Denmark, but it shouldn't be revised, it should be killed.

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  • Um... Yeah. Microsoft absolutely doesn't have an OS monopoly, as much as they're trying.

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  • That has never been true.

    You can even "buy" open source software on Steam that is available free from the home website.

    You're referring to the case with the developers of Lugaru, and they've been doing a great job of painting their fuckup as Valve barring platform competition.

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  • So you're saying Steam has a monopoly on the games people choose to buy on Steam?

    ...?

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  • That's not my definition. That's just the definition. And you're using a corporation that is actively monopolising the logistics market, even so far as breaking the law to kill any competition, as an example. Nicely done.

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  • GOG is not a Steam competitor because they're offering something different from Steam.

    A customer that would buy a game from GOG is not a customer that would regularly buy something from Steam.

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  • "Comodity controlled by one party". Except it's not controlled by one party.

    Outsized market power, what left out are the actions taken to make such an outsized market power. Monopolies are not a passive that form all by themselves. They are created through expansion acquisition, and aggressive crushing of competition. Disney and Nintendo do these actions. Valve does basically... Nothing.

    A single dominant seller, but again leaving out all the rest I have written above.

    There is nothing Valve can stop doing to be less "a monopoly". All they've done is provide a pretty decent service, and nobody else can be arsed to top that, even companies with the resources to do so.

    That's not a monopoly.

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  • And where are those millions going, pray tell? Because they're sure as fuck not going into the development of a good storefront.

    Epic has enough resources to make competition against Valve. They would rather cry about how they can't get away with being cheap.

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  • What are you doing watching YouTube without an adblocker?

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  • Oh look, yet another person who doesn't understand what monopoly means.

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  • They're not competing with Steam. They're offering different services.

    Competition is like EA Origins or the Epic store.

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  • No good competitors because they don't have money? Excuse me? Are you seriously trying to paint Epic Games as some poor small underdog company?

    Yes, Steam will eventually go to shit. But it's not shit right now, and the competition can't even be bothered to have a shopping basket feature in their store, something every online store already had since the dawn of online stores 20 years ago.

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  • I mean... There are so many games that use Nexus as their preferred platform. And for older games Mod.db is still king.

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  • Oh there's plenty said about Valve, like their dirty skin gambling underbelly.

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  • YongYea has habit of first going over all the opinions and written stuff in articles before giving his own opinions and conclusions. It's... Just the way he does things. Some people consider that an in-depth overview.

    I think it's... Alright. I usually don't finish watching his vids when I get the point.

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  • They literally never went a millimeter out of their way to negatively impact another competing storefront.

    Valve's success can be almost summed up as "does nothing, wins" because the competition to steam has been piss poor.

  • Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved

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  • If I'm going to need to install several different clients/launcher on my computer just to keep up with where games get published, I'll just resort to piracy.

    Being forced to install some shitty client to run a specific game has been a deal breaker for me in the past. And there is no guarantee that other "competing" platforms will bother making Linux versions of their clients.