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Clearly they're not dumping those millions into a properly coded interface that's not just bloatware

errmm actually no monopoly ever existed

forcing whites to pay reparations tax

adding a capital gains tax on all owned assets including your home

still sucks Jew cock

DURRRH KAMILA WOULD OF BEEN BETTER DEN TRUMP. LE FELL FOR AGAIN AWARD

Wins by doing absolutely nothing

oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/monopoly?q=monopoly

"The complete control of trade in particular goods or the supply of a particular service; a type of goods or a service that is controlled in this way"

let me double down on being retarded

Here's your (You) that you really want for some reason.

i uninstalled the battlenet launcher/blizzard app and removed myself from their ecosystem because it has literal ads and popups that aren't able to be disabled. if that's the closest to steam's userfriendliness, it's no wonder steam has a """monopoly""". it's crazy how much they dominate the competition by just being chill and not being annoying faggots.

Couldn't name one monopoly

Always wanted to see that sentry gun on display at their offices cause it was in my town. Our school planned a field trip there but it got cancelled :(((

The only time you could argue Steam had a monopoly was when PC games were being offered retail that forced you to have a Steam account to play them, and that was a short lived time period during the 360 era.

Nobody seems to know how to compete with steam beyond throwing money at the wall.
Did anons even know Amazon was apparently trying to dethrone steam?

This is one of those times where the midwit bell curve is accurate

It's not that they don't know how to compete with Steam.
The issue is they fucking hate their consumers so fucking bad they can't do anything to actually compete.
This being why Steam even started in the first place.

true far left would be openly sodomizing toddlers on the street and then executing them chud!

And you couldn't either even though you are autistically screeching about them, ranjeet.

So no monopoly ever existed

just wait til Gabe retires/dies and new management takes steam public. Your anus will be penetrated, even if it takes time

They are trying, but they fell for the meme that Valve does nothing, so they think offering the absolute bare minimum is enough to beat "nothing"

SAAAR WE WILL BUY THE STEAM IT WILL GO THE PUBLICS

That's not how it works, and if you spent even a minute thinking about how not to be a faggot, your ventures in competing with them wouldn't fail so catastrophically

Jokes on you retard I'll be dead by then.

Equity in Valve is shared across dozens of people tho got shares as part of bonuses.
All of them would have to agree or sell their shares to the one faggot out to ruin Valve.

Valve has nothing near a monopoly. Their platform is almost entirely dependent on the actual convicted monopolist who keeps trying to remove the ability for Steam, GoG, or any of the other stores to even exist.
Only 2.5% of Valve's business is safely outside of the control of the monopoly holding back PC gaming for the benefit of consoles and phones.

Saarstl the mother bloody monopolies doesn't exists saarrs use epic saaarssss

competitors literally can't compete even if they dump millions into any sort of game service

Except nobody is doing that. They are not even trying. The Epic Launcher is still shit even after 7 years of free games.

Please release a Steam Deck 2 before Gabe is gone and Valve and PC gaming go to shit like the consoles

don't interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake

I heard him and Gabe teamed up. Keep it or leave it?

It's called donating to the Democratic Party and Democrats

They're dumping millions into it, but they're dumping millions into

Swallowing up a bunch of studios and damn their IPs to purgatory

Violently anti-consumer shit like Google Stadia and Luma "You own nothing" fat fucking latency streaming shit where they hoped nobody would ask for their money back when they shut down and set any unfortunate legal precidents.

They have zero interest in actually making a good product that isn't designed out of hate for the people they're selling it to.

no physical copies for PC

Uh oh

It is the classic MBA move of trying to attack a competitor where they are the strongest because that is where most of the money is, but ignoring the early adopters who might be a very small segment of the market but will try out new things and ultimately bring the rest of the market along if it is better.
Which is why Valve has more paying customers running GNU/Linux who have spent $300+ on their platform than the Epic store has paying customers total.

Thing is other stores could easily copy Valve and follow them into the GNU/Linux market, but they won't for whatever reason.

Most Indians use steam tho

One of the major things that keeps people sticking with Steam is that they haven't done anything wrong in well over a decade. Almost all of their controversies (beyond muh loli censorship faggots crying) only happened in the late 00s to early 10s, largely around the greenlight program and refund policy - which led to pro-consumer changes that have stuck around since. Any competitors need to prove to consumers that Steam has any glaring issues in the first place, which given the track record of Valve, is pretty easily debunked. Why switch from What Just Works?