What monopoly? If I have to choose between GOG, Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Rockstar, EA, and others I am going with the least user-hostile, and the one that has Linux support.

Steam is the only one that actually cares about the quality of a service, so maybe look at that instead of crying monopoly.

[–] quams69@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They literally don't know what a monopoly is, they just asked for Steam to be "broken up"

[–] hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I can see why Steam seems to have a monopoly on PC gaming. Pretty much everybody uses Steam as a launcher and store, and Valve has seen success with the Steam Deck so thats the hardware field also covered. They even managed to upset Nintendo when the Switch emulator was showcased lol.

A good size of the fanbase are also massive Valve fanboys, so there is a lot of brand loyalty, making the service have a larger presence than others.

At the end of the day, the fact remains is that there are other storefronts, launchers, and Valve has even opened up the Steam Deck's specs and OS. Theres like, no monopoly there. I hope the parent commenter can eventually see that.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one is stopping EA or Ubisoft from developing better launcher though. People use Steam because alternatives are garbage.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Someone dose seem to stopp EA from doing it though, as they somehow managed to develop a worse launcher then their old one.

But I really don't think that someone was Steam.