The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: “Gamers use Windows because of its’ user experience not our de facto monopoly.”

Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a “Out of Business” sign. Subtitle: “30 minutes after SteamOS is released”

Edit: Yo, I’m not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew’s UX sucks ass.

  • CileTheSaneEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Steam is a monopoly because if devs try to sell on other stores, they will make less money.

    That doesn’t describe a monopoly at all. That just describes the free market.

    Epic actually tried to get around this by offering very lucrative exclusivity deals to devs. That still didn’t work.

    I refuse to touch Epic because of their exclusivity deals. So in my case the exclusivity is actually harmful for sales…

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      21·
      3 hours ago

      That doesn’t describe a monopoly at all. That just describes the free market.

      Libertarian much? The free market can and does create monopolies all the time. Libertarian philosophy doesn’t believe it because it’s an obvious flaw.

      • CileTheSaneEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        None of that explains how “devs make more money selling on Steam” makes Steam a monopoly. Especially when as you’ve already said Epic has tried to pay devs directly for exclusivity as well give them a larger % of sales.

        • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
          11·
          1 hour ago

          Devs make more money selling in Steam because all the customers are there. I know that accepting this means accepting libertarian philosophy is deeply flawed, but it isn’t that complicated.

          • CileTheSaneEnglish
            1·
            42 minutes ago

            None of that explains how “devs make more money selling on Steam” makes Steam a monopoly.

            Your attempts at Ad Hominin in no way argues that Steam is a monopoly.

            “People shop at Store A instead of Store B” does not necessitate that Store A is a monopoly. Maybe Store B is shit.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          1 hour ago

          And what did the horrible fanboys do? Boycott any dev who dared to accept an Epic deal.

          So developers were forced to ditch Epic or lose sales.

          • CileTheSaneEnglish
            1·
            45 minutes ago

            Crying “fanboys” does not make Steam a monopoly.