Forcing people to download their service for physical media isn’t anti-competitive? Or is that only when it’s Ubisoft or EA?
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Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months agoYou can argue a monopoly only where there are both an active actual monolog and when there are anti competitive practices in place.
Steam doesn’t do anti competitive, their 30% cut is actually a deal when you consider how much you get in comparison to Epic or Gog, who both take 30% but both offer considerably less. Valve doesn’t push for exclusives the way Epic does and valve doesn’t do anything to make you not able to publish to other stores at all.
Their edge is that they offer a better service for the same price.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…that’s how DRM works yeah, and I’m guess you don’t actually know what anti competitive is because that’s not it buddy.
conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 10 months ago
Not all content on Steam has DRM either so at worst you need an account and the client initially.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Steam killed off brick and mortar stores for PC games. If that’s not anti-competitive then I don’t know what is.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess you don’t know what is, lol
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I don’t like Epic at all, but they have a 88/12 revenue split, not 70/30
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s only if you’re using Unreal