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Yeah M$ fucked up their chances at the steam monopoly. Still doesn’t mean we need it to be a monopoly at all. Going from one billionaire conglomerate to another owning the monopoly, still leaves you with a monopoly. Neither option is good, you are still stuck in a monopoly that will enshittify.
It wouldn't have been just a Steam monopoly. It would have been PC gaming gated behind Microsoft, and with Microsoft having zero incentive and total control with it being heavily integrated into their OS with no need for openness. A consolified PC gaming space would be what they would have loved. Not just to make piracy more difficult, but to get the trust of publishers who had all gone towards consoles because of the perceived benefits of a closed ecosystem.
Yes so now there is the operating system monopoly by the two giants and the gaming monopoly on pc with steam and the consoles being locked down ecosystems run by two corporations. None of that is good competition or a positive for creators or players.
It’s still a fucking monopoly we are stuck in and steam like every damn oligarch tech company needs to be chopped up.
Go on, lick that boot as hard as you can