>Epic bad
Epic bad
Elijah Perry
Gavin Lopez
They don't have Halo MCC so yeah epic is shit
Joseph Reyes
>supporting chinks
Michael Nelson
epic bad unironically
Michael Hernandez
>Epic shills: You're just mad Steam's monopoly is being broken!
>meanwhile Epic is literally trying to strongarm a monopoly by buying up exclusivity deals with their piles of vbucks, despite having a vastly inferior platform for the consumer base they're trying to force over to them
Epic shills would be funny if they weren't so sad.
Landon Williams
>>Epic shills: You're just mad Steam's monopoly is being broken!
Except this is true
Andrew Ross
Look up what a monopoly actually is and you'll understand why Valve doesn't, and never had one with Steam.
Protip: simply being the biggest and most appealing outlet for a product doesn't make you a monopoly.
Levi Rivera
>Protip: simply being the biggest and most appealing outlet for a product doesn't make you a monopoly.
investopedia.com
>On May 18, 1998, the Department of Justice filed antitrust charges against Microsoft (MSFT). The charges were brought to determine whether Microsoft's bundling of additional programs into its operating system constituted monopolistic actions. The suit was brought following the browser wars that led to the collapse of Microsoft's top competitor, Netscape, which occurred when Microsoft began giving away its browser software for free.
What a monopoly is or isn't is really up in the air
And in my opinion? Steam is a monopoly
Juan Jackson
But it isn't. What does steam have a monopoly on? Every dev on steam willingly puts their games on there.
Samuel Ross
Because what else would they release their game on? Only thing you can effectively do on PC is release the game with your own DRM launcher
Levi Cooper
Ever heard of a drm free game, zoom zoom? You don't need these launchers.
Xavier Walker
Or GoG, or their own launcher, or a physical copy sold on various physical stores or online retailers.
Steam isn't forcing anyone's hand other than being the best service with the most features.
Eli Campbell
Lucas Thompson
Are you one of those retards who thinks monopoly = 100% control?
>inb4 hurr it has mono in it! mono means one!
Believe it or not terms need to have a practical use. The literal definition would be invalidated by a lemonade stand.
Parker Lewis
>Rage 2
>A good thing
Typical Steam cucks scrambling for any sort of win
Xavier Garcia
whats wrong with it?
Joshua Rivera
epic is the xbox of the launchers
steam has the japs on their side, which is important since most of this site is into jap games
Parker Stewart
Isn't Rage 2 a Bethesda Launcher exclusive? Doom probably will be as well.
Joshua Robinson
Steam hasn't had a monopoly for years.
Ayden Phillips
Being the only launcher worth using doesn't make it a monopoly, it makes it competitive. What about Steam makes it a monopoly that Epic hasn't replicated?
Landon Miller
Now they don't thanks to Epic
GOG has been in business for 10 years and did nothing to stop Steam.
Matthew Clark
no bethesda is putting doom eternal, rage, the wolfenstein mini games, fallout 76 etc. all on steam. they might go on epic too but they haven't said anything yet
Jacob Ortiz
nope, both are confirmed to be on steam
Noah Bell
>in order to be a monopoly you have to have competitors looking to be a monopoly
What the fuck?
Jaxson Phillips
>GOG has been in business for 10 years and did nothing to stop Steam.
and why would they? most publishers don't do drm free games. vtmb 2 is about the only major title to launch drm free since witcher 3.
Brody Foster
I'm sorry which platform has blizzard partnered with
Adam Gomez
Yes? Imagine if it was just Coke. Or just Pepsi.
Jace Butler
That is correct, yes.
Asher Anderson
Bethesda confirmed that all their upcoming games and also fallout 76 would come to both the Bethesda launcher and steam.
Colton White
Fuck off American shill.
Jackson Campbell
Why are people on Yea Forums so retarded that they don't know the definitions to words like monopoly?
Kevin Hall
>people freaking out over nothing
Josiah Brooks
Bethesda gave up after F76 and saw the chance to take a shot at Epic
Logan Stewart
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Taiwan #1
John Jenkins
>people on Yea Forums
Don't you mean chink shills?
Asher Barnes
But it isn't. And there's other brands of cola. Just like game launchers.
What's your point? Just because a service is more popular doesn't make it a monopoly. Steam had GoG, the Discord store, uPlay, Origin, actual physical boxes, humble bundle and now Epic. It's never been a monopoly.
Take an econ 001 class my dude.
Lucas Torres
No, people have been retarded for years and have said Steam's monopoly, not just people from the 100 acre forest
boards.fireden.net
Connor Lewis
the people who don't know the definition are today's gaming audience. epic is forcing the same false narrative because the current generation is literally too lazy to fact check or think for themselves and takes everything at face value.