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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

Valves business strategy is called something close to a monopoly.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

These kinds of comments are just silly. Explain how Valve has a monopoly.

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

Nowadays pretty much every game is only available on Steam.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If a game isn't sold on Steam, It isn't going to sell well.

Because of the huge amount of Valve fanboys who only buy games if they are on Steam.

Games on other stores might as well not exist.

And more, if a game even dares to launch on a different store, it would garner unfavour of all those Valve fanboys and hurt their sales even if afterwards it does launch on Steam.

It is a user enforced monopoly.

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