Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re thinking steam isn’t a monopoly then why is it nearly impossible to create a gaming platform that competes with these giants?

  Depends on what you mean by “monopoly”. In the strictest sense it means they have zero competition, which is clearly untrue because we have Epic, GoG, Origin, Battlenet, Meta, etc. etc.

  In the case of Google, it means they take anticompetitive measures. I’ve asked you what anticompetitive measures Valve takes but you don’t seem to want to provide an answer. Why is that?

  It’s not “impossible” at all. It is very difficult because you’re fighting established brands that are not regional, and have decades of experience and brand recognition on you. Competing with them would require a fuckton of money and also some sort of novel features to bring to the market that they’re not. These are not anticompetitive measures, it’s just effective business.

  How would you go about even trying to rectify that? Would you force Valve to give other companies money and promotion to a competing service?

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  • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re contradicting yourself

    If I wanted to start a power grid company, I would need a fuckton of money as well. It’s called a natural monopoly, but that doesn’t mean it’s not impossible.

    On the other hand starting a new gaming platform is just like competing with a national power grid company. It’s nearly impossible. You become a target that’s on sight from all angles. At that moment you’re prone to pretty much every anti competitive tactic.

    Tell me why no one is trying to overtake steam and why companies that actually try, are being flushed.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I wanted to start a power grid company, I would need a fuckton of money as well. It’s called a natural monopoly.

      That’s simply not what a monopoly is. You’re confused.

      A monopoly is when there’s only a single energy company available, which is not the case here.

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      • vsh@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

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