You’re either a troll, extremely young, naive, and/or uneducated if you think my comment above is in defense of billionaires. I literally have comments in my history to the absolute opposite*. What I’m “defending” is the definition of a monopoly when it comes to business practices; of which Valve has exuded none of the behavior of.
You think any business doing well, providing quality goods and services, not being anti-consumer, and being the most trusted platform for gaming as a result is the definition of a monopoly. Again, you use fallacy to try and argue a point.
Wait… Are you that dickhead from Epic who pays for exclusivity rights, steaks user data from Steam files, or something? I could see that guy being pissed at Steam for seemingly no reason.
* one such comment, if I recall, is about how much I hated Steam when it first came out for killing LAN parties by locking down CD keys.
But that’s exactly what you’re doing though. You’re in front of a company that controls 70% of the market, meaning they can do whatever the fuck they want regarding pricing and you’re defending them because you don’t see any issue with that.
So yeah, let’s wait until they start truly acting like shit before thinking “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t have let them get such a hold on the market…”
If they hiked prices above what other stores offered, consumers would leave. If they lowered prices to be untenable for developers, developers would leave, and consumers would follow (they’d probably grumble, but they’d go where the games are). There isn’t a lock in for future sales on either side. So do you think they can do whatever they want with prices with no consequences?
If you’re big enough and people are dependent on your product then no they won’t simply leave.
It’s not like owning a DVD deciding your next DVD player won’t be a Sony because you don’t like them. The products that you “own” are dependent on Steam, of you’ve got thousands of games on there you can’t just leave and bring your library with you to another platform.
You’re either a troll, extremely young, naive, and/or uneducated if you think my comment above is in defense of billionaires. I literally have comments in my history to the absolute opposite*. What I’m “defending” is the definition of a monopoly when it comes to business practices; of which Valve has exuded none of the behavior of.
You think any business doing well, providing quality goods and services, not being anti-consumer, and being the most trusted platform for gaming as a result is the definition of a monopoly. Again, you use fallacy to try and argue a point.
Wait… Are you that dickhead from Epic who pays for exclusivity rights, steaks user data from Steam files, or something? I could see that guy being pissed at Steam for seemingly no reason.
* one such comment, if I recall, is about how much I hated Steam when it first came out for killing LAN parties by locking down CD keys.
But that’s exactly what you’re doing though. You’re in front of a company that controls 70% of the market, meaning they can do whatever the fuck they want regarding pricing and you’re defending them because you don’t see any issue with that.
So yeah, let’s wait until they start truly acting like shit before thinking “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t have let them get such a hold on the market…”
If they hiked prices above what other stores offered, consumers would leave. If they lowered prices to be untenable for developers, developers would leave, and consumers would follow (they’d probably grumble, but they’d go where the games are). There isn’t a lock in for future sales on either side. So do you think they can do whatever they want with prices with no consequences?
If you’re big enough and people are dependent on your product then no they won’t simply leave.
It’s not like owning a DVD deciding your next DVD player won’t be a Sony because you don’t like them. The products that you “own” are dependent on Steam, of you’ve got thousands of games on there you can’t just leave and bring your library with you to another platform.