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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

... Am I still on lemmy?
The whole thread is a corporate talk and ~~Apple~~ Steam fan mix. Your first paragraph...

We're discussing a monopoly, and all I am reading is how good a product they're making.

Shouldn't the discussion also be about their costs, margins?
Is the market difficult to enter by its nature? How much would the users and developers benefit from more competition?

And I still dont know their cut.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Steam isn't blocking anyone from competing as far as I'm aware. It's just that most customers don't to switch to a new platform because none of the competition is better than they are and we don't want to have to juggle multiple launchers. If Steam started being assholes to the customers or developers stopped putting games on there we'd look at other options.

Supposing Steam is a monopoly what remedy do propose that wouldn't make the user experience worse for their customers?