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  • Well, everything in one place doesn’t really require a monopoly. The key is interoperability. It would be having a single launcher that can download games from any store. This way the customer can have choice over where to buy games and what launcher to use. It’d something similar to the heroic launcher.


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    8 days ago

    You are right. Google is a monopoly, and they are at the same time anti-competitive. Valve hasn’t done anything anti-competitive yet (that I know of, anyways), but they are a monopoly.

    I feel people strongly associate being anti-competitive with being a monopoly, which is fair, not many monopolies out there that are not anti-competitive. But there is a distinction.



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    I mean, this meme is not wrong. Valve is a de facto monopoly because everyone else is shit, and user hostile. But, a monopoly is still a monopoly, and we shouldn’t be glazing a billion dollar company, in any circumstances. And it’s not like Valve has never done anything wrong.

    It’s ok to like Valve, I like Valve. But we need to hold them to account, and call them out when they do something wrong. And if you really think Valve did nothing wrong in this case, why not let them prove it in court? They have a lot of money, they can afford some lawyers.