• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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    8 months ago

    It’s not a monopoly. Monopolies are when a single company controls a market AND prevents others from competing. Nothing stops EA or UbiSoft from supporting Linux or making their client not shit. Yet they don’t.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      Yup. Epic tossed huge amounts of money into their Steam competitor, and it’s still flailing around. Valve’s market position is based on customer trust, and it took a long time to get there. There are a couple of other companies that could throw money at it like Epic did, but they can’t buy their way into customer trust.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        8 months ago

        and it took a long time to get there

        True. I don’t think many people here had to deal with Steam pre 2010, when game updates could fail for no apparent reason, so you had to redownload everything.