Seems like buying games to remove them from your competitor is a scummier thing to do.

    • kinsnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      I don’t know if valve are or aren’t abusing their monopolistic position. I am not a lawyer and i don’t have a horse in the race.

      I was just answering to someone who said “if you don’t like valve policies, dont publish your games there”, which would be true for a normal business, but specifically not true of a monopoly, which steam is, unquestionably

      Epic can do things much more freely, because they dont hold a monopoly on pc games

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      hey, I’m going to give you a $5 Million exclusivity deal

      This isn’t something they need to.do, as they have a monopoly.