Welp, I guess culture is dead.

Im not the ones ignoring definitions, and calling Valve a monoply is bad faith in the first place.

You mean those same “comprehensive” definitions that failed with my argument?

Other corpos who cry about Valve providing a good service.

MCP?

They’re calling it the MCP?

Did they do that on purpose, or are they really so small, soft, uncultured, and tone deaf at Microsoft? It’s… Probably the latter, isn’t it…

I wish I could tell you, but for all the cool and sensible things we have her, Denmark comes with… this.

What the fuck is this, Denmark?

I’ll probably use VR mostly to play sims. Elite Dangerous, X4, I also have a few racing sims.

But ultimately depends on the price. I’m not going to sell my organs for what is essentially a really cool immersive gimmick.

Depends on what kind of person you are. I know of individuals who practically live in VR.

Um… Yeah. Microsoft absolutely doesn’t have an OS monopoly, as much as they’re trying.

That has never been true.

You can even “buy” open source software on Steam that is available free from the home website.

You’re referring to the case with the developers of Lugaru, and they’ve been doing a great job of painting their fuckup as Valve barring platform competition.

So you’re saying Steam has a monopoly on the games people choose to buy on Steam?

…?

That’s not my definition. That’s just the definition. And you’re using a corporation that is actively monopolising the logistics market, even so far as breaking the law to kill any competition, as an example. Nicely done.

GOG is not a Steam competitor because they’re offering something different from Steam.

A customer that would buy a game from GOG is not a customer that would regularly buy something from Steam.

“Comodity controlled by one party”. Except it’s not controlled by one party.

Outsized market power, what left out are the actions taken to make such an outsized market power. Monopolies are not a passive that form all by themselves. They are created through expansion acquisition, and aggressive crushing of competition. Disney and Nintendo do these actions. Valve does basically… Nothing.

A single dominant seller, but again leaving out all the rest I have written above.

There is nothing Valve can stop doing to be less “a monopoly”. All they’ve done is provide a pretty decent service, and nobody else can be arsed to top that, even companies with the resources to do so.

That’s not a monopoly.

And where are those millions going, pray tell? Because they’re sure as fuck not going into the development of a good storefront.

Epic has enough resources to make competition against Valve. They would rather cry about how they can’t get away with being cheap.

I’ve completely lost track of the amount of people in Russia named Vladmir, Vladimir, Voldemir, and Volodimir.

What are you doing watching YouTube without an adblocker?

Oh look, yet another person who doesn’t understand what monopoly means.

Likewise. I also passed around the message between my union guys; “don’t you dare buy GTA 6”.

They’re not competing with Steam. They’re offering different services.

Competition is like EA Origins or the Epic store.