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• tb_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But how does the EGS exist?

  Because they are able to subsidize it with investor as well as Fortnite money. I doubt it’s turned a profit for them.

  Wouldn’t exactly call that “viable competition”

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s the thing that gets me. Undercutting is the quintessential anticompetitive practice, and it’s Epic’s entire business model. They give away games for free because they are trying to siphon some of Steam’s customers. They make exclusive release deals with publishers because they want to force people to use their platform. They are trying to compete with Steam using their resources from the success of Fortnite and Unreal rather than compete with the storefront by actually having a better storefront.

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    • Zozano@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.

      Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.

      Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.

      Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.

      Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Most important difference: Steam isn’t the only way to install apps. Even on Steam Deck.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s what all users want

        You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want.

        Oh so it’s not a store, it’s just a launcher like Heroic…wait no, it’s still a problem

        Any client should be able to implement part of steam into it and any part of steam should be a standalone company

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are they succeeding? I have no idea of the actual figures and the Internet tends to form echo chambers, so I don’t know if the sentiments I read that they’re still not much of a threat is actually representative.

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      • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Based on the fact that I’ve literally never heard anybody actually like the epic games store, I don’t think they’re successful

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s easy to explain. EGS managed to make everyone hate them just as it started. How do they expect to be profitable if they piss off the entire market?

    There are other stores such as GoG that have actual users.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    EGS is the Fortnite launcher. Fortnite’s player base is insanely huge. Those people have EGS installed, they just choose not to buy anything else on that platform, except maybe V Bucks.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No it doesn’t

  A company can be a monopoly when they include so many features that new competition can’t compete

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Monopoly: 1. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

    2. A board game

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s a pure monopoly

      A monopolistic market can occur when…wiat I previously said

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  • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why can’t anyone develop said features? Should the competitor worsen themselves just because no one is able to develop the same features? As far as I remember, valve doesn’t patent something ridiculous like regional pricing or family sharing, so anyone is welcome to develop it themselves. They even make proton open source but apparently Epic doesn’t like the idea of them on the linux market.

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