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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

In this thread a bunch of monopolists tell epic to fuck off so they can keep feeding a monopoly that licenses drm keys to them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am against monopolistic competition practices and that includes exclusivity deals and predatory pricing.

And as far as I know, Epic does this more than Valve or GOG. Granted, Valve doesn't need to, because they are already the main player, but they also mostly avoided enshittyfication for now.

Granted it is hard to enter a market that is already dominated by another company, but instead of doing those business practices they could offer a better service.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Steam is a monopoly because it is the only one of these platforms to actually be good.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Epic can even beat them if they just improved their store, but they would rather fight other stores so that it would be worse for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's more than the store they need to improve.

They're not just playing catch-up either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

no, it's because they had about a 15 year head start. you think steam started the way it is now? it started as a launcher for steam games and it was worse than ubisoft's launcher.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, folks fucking hated it at the jump. Whats wild to me is that Epic could factor in all the lessons Steam learned over near two decades resulting in a relatively equal product, but instead... doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't tell me that if epic somehow wins this war that they won't immediately enshittify the platform. Valve has my trust.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

epic can have a seat at the table when they actually start competing with valve in terms of features and customer service.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

so they can keep feeding a monopoly that licenses drm keys to them.

I guess I don't understand Epic's model. How is Epic different from Steam in this regard?