• echo64@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sure. But what if Gabe newel decided to sell tomorrow. Just wants to retire maybe he’s pretty old. What if Microsoft buys it and you’re left with a monopoly you don’t like. That’s the eventuality of every unhealthy industry.

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      Well it will be a sad day and Ubisoft, Microsoft and Epic competition won’t fix anything if steam goes to shit. Steam is basically the unicorn and once it becomes extinct we won’t get anything half decent to replace it with. Publicly traded companies are the bedrock of unhealthy industries.

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        Competition in the marketplace is the only thing that has any chance of saving you when that day comes.

        You are in lucky days today. Tomorrow won’t be so good, but you can choose to support an industry controlled by a monopoly, or you can support an industry with healthy competition.

        I would hope that Gamers aren’t so near sighted, but I’ve been proven wrong over and over again.

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          “Supporting competition” is not a good enough reason to use a shitty service. If I start a service that charges twice as much as Steam and has none of the features would you use it in order to “support competition”?

          If the only reason to purchase from Epic is “they exist” that’s not good enough.

          I will happily avoid Epic’s attempts to be a monopoly now over worrying that Steam might be shitty in the future.

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            It’s super weird to me that you guys think epic is trying to be a monopoly. Epic had 0.00001% of the market. In their wildest dreams they might expect to get ten percent.

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              Epic had 0.00001% of the market.

              The numbers for Fortnite, available on EGS but not Steam, tell otherwise.

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              Just because they aren’t good at it doesn’t mean they aren’t trying very hard to do so, and will clearly be very shitty if they ever achieve it.

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          When steam shuts down and we have Ubisoft and Epic to replace it with I’m just moving to itch.io and probably torrenting my steam library if it comes to the worst. Also I might actually stop playing games since steam is pushing proton development forward and without them I have no reason to play or buy anything new. Epic’s shitty CEO has made toxic remarks against linux before and Ubisoft just couldn’t care less. I’ll support a company that supports my interests, epic doesn’t so I don’t simple as.

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          That would be helpful if they actually tried to be competitive on the same level.

          Unfortunately they’re only competing for profit, not as a service. Which is why they’re failing.

          Competition bettering service only works if people want to compete to create a better service. That clearly isn’t the case.

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      Then we’d go back to sailing the high seas, until a better alternative shows up; as Gabe said, piracy is a service problem.