Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months agoIf 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?
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
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.
vsh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Did you even read your own link?
This is for like, cell tower companies and stuff where infrastructure costs are in the billions. A game store has no infrastructural costs in excess of any other business.
You can’t just call a business a monopoly because it costs a lot of money to compete with them.
You’ve replied to me 3 times now without ever answering my question about what anticompetitive measures Steam has taken to remain a supposed monopoly and thus I’m left to assume you’re just trolling and will have to end this conversation. Goodbye.