Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal

• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And you’d lose all of that.

  Competition isn’t possible? EGS is an active competitor that only takes 12% and they still can’t get fucking anywhere because their store fucking sucks. GoG exists and also takes 30%, their store/launcher are ok, but they don’t offer nearly as much for that 30%, but they make up for that with drm free games. There are other minor players out there, so competition is definitely possible, but not one of them offers a comparable product.

  The only way steam would lower their cut is if someone came along and made a game store that actually offered a significant portion of the services steam offered and was about as good but also had a lower cut of sales. But good luck finding someone who can do all of that and also takes less than 30%.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You don’t seem to understand what a monopoly is. Having some small competition that’s not ever going to threaten you because you can leverage your dominant position is also a case of a monopoly.

    Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it. How is anyone going to compete with a platform that most gamers have all of their games on? This is why they need to be broken up or brought to order via regulations. Companies are not your friends.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Success is not illegal. Valve isn’t buying up smaller competing storefronts, or paying off developers for exclusivity, or burying competition in legal fees and prepared 80-page lawsuits. The only thing holding back real competition is the competing platforms being dogshit.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Leveraging dominant position to keep your monopoly is illegal even in the US.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How is anyone going to compete with a platform that most gamers have all of their games on?

      They could offer their games DRM-free, guarantee that their multiplayer games have LAN or provide servers and/or at least provide that information clearly the consumer, write an open source drop-in replacement for Steam Input and Workshop, guarantee more uptime on their matchmaking/friends servers, retain old versions of games that they distribute, and allow for user-customized or open source clients to fit all sorts of UI preferences, off the top of my head.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Those things are up to developers / publishers, not the marketplace.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it.

      Yes, Into fortnite, not EGS. The eggs spent all their money on timed exclusives instead of a better product, and that’s why they failed to make a steam competitor.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Those free games weren’t actually free, Epic paid for them, you know.

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    • Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You dont seem to understand what a monopoly is either since steam isnt one

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