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What's up with Epic Games?
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Steam as a game store has a monopoly, just like Google as a search engine has a monopoly, other options exist but their reach is small enough that Valve and Alphabet can decide what happens with the market.
"They have a very limited presence in Asia"... Yeah, just like Google, we're not talking about Asia.
EGS is perfectly fine and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks it's Steam that's bloated and has a load of useless stuff that's only there to monetize whales (cards, tradeable items...)
Of course we are talking about Asia, lmao. Why would we just arbitrarily leave them out, because it makes your argument look bad? Their money is just as green as any other place. And considering the multitude of extremely profitable Asian PC gaming platforms, no: Steam as a game store does not have a monopoly. Not even close. They are not even the market leader! The Riot launcher is also a PC gaming store/platform, and has higher MAU than Steam. Just calling Steam a monoply over and over again doesn't just magically make it true.
Well then no monopolies exist if we look on a global scale for everything, thank you for fixing all of the world's market!
You only have a single option for an internet provider where you live? Well they don't have a monopoly because in the next town over they have another option!
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