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Cake day: June 24th, 2020

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  • Well, yes? According to Merriam-Webster:

    1: exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action

    2: exclusive possession or control <no country has a monopoly on morality or truth—Helen M. Lynd>

    3: a commodity controlled by one party <had a monopoly on flint from their quarries—Barbara A. Leitch>

    4: one that has a monopoly < The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.:>

    I’m not arguing that Steam doesn’t have overwhelming market power, it most certainly does. But key words here are “exclusive” and “one party” and Steam does not control the PC market exclusively, nor are they the only party on the market.


  • 72% of devs have no clue what the word monopoly means. That would mean that Steam is the only store selling PC games on the market, but that’s not the case. Hell, the article itself mentions several:

    However, it also noted that developers have started utilising other platforms including the Epic Game Store and the Xbox PC Games store.

    Almost half of those surveyed (48%) have distributed a title to both stores, while 10% have used GOG and 8% have used Itch.io.

    So, a monopoly? Most definitely not. A market leader or holder of a vast majority? Yes.








  • Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?

    Yes, that. As far as my circle of friends and acquaintances who are running Win10 are concerned, I’ve made the effort to advise them to switch to something newer for security reasons. They will probably switch to Windows 11, but that is their concern.