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Steam doesn't have a monopoly, other platforms are just shit.
Missing features, badly made features, fucking spyware, some barely working at all (I am looking at you, ubisoft)
Perhaps if the other platforms tried a little bit, they would actually be a competition.
The position makes a monopoly, not the reason...
Such a monopoly that plenty of other games exist entirely independent of steam and do perfectly well
Other games aren't a competition for a platform like Steam, that's a different market. Steam has a monopoly because they have a extremely dominant position without real competition in their sector, they don't have to engage in anti-competitive practices against games outside of steam to have that...
And what sector are you claiming steam has a monopoly in if it isn't game sales/distribution?
Fuck, this is so stupid it's hard to even responde... Steam has a monopoly on game distribution but Minecraft isn't a Steam competitor just like Fortnite isn't a Play Store competitor! I am done with this thread, it's frustrating to try and explain so many people such basic things if they don't want to hear them!
Yeah, acting like a total fucking retard must be exhausting for you
A monopoly is defined as a single seller or producer that excludes competition from providing the same product
By this definition, Epic games would be a monopoly with its exclusives.
That's not at all what a monopoly is, it's simply the absence of competition aka the market position. You don't have to engage in anti-competitive practices to havw a monopoly, I don't get why that's so hard to understand for many here...
Steam has competion, and it's market position is not 100% of the market.
By your own defintion (of a pure monopoly), steam is not a monopoly.