Lock-in != Monopoly.
The fact that you can’t transfer your purchases […] to other platforms
This is ridiculously unrealistic in a capitalist society.
It costs the platform money whenever a user downloads a game, and a user who didn’t buy from their store isn’t a user that they make money from. No other platform would voluntarily accept a recurring cost like that.
Also, it’s not like they stop publishers from doing that themselves. Ubisoft and EA use the cd-key generated by steam to associate the game with your U-Play and Origin accounts.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
What do you expect them to do? Not actively helping your competition is not remotely the same thing as being anticompetitive.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
It literally is if you have a monopoly.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
It isn’t. And they don’t.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
While I disagree with the other commenter’s approach and attitude, he/she/they are partially correct.
There is no legal obligation for a company to fund or assist its competition, even if it holds a significant marketshare. The companies that do help their competition, like Microsoft with Apple in 1997 or Google with Mozilla today, begrugingly choose to do it so their lawyers can make the argument that they are not a monopoly because they still have competition.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
They literally objectively, have monopolistic anti-competitive power, largely thanks to blind dick riding gamers like you.