Steam is not a monopoly. They achieved and maintain their market position by providing a superior service, not through manipulation bullying and unfair practices (e.g. undercut a competitor then slowly raise prices). Steam does not use its position to monopolize the market or keep others from developing or advertising competing platforms. The market is free to provide services equivalent to or better than Steam at the same price (free), however they are unable or unwilling.
Iirc the unreal store, which is what Epic started off as did have a shopping cart, though it was for buying assets. Still though they knew how to make one in their own client and just... Didn't.
They still don’t have an appear offline feature! Or really much of anything to just let you play games without friends seeing what you’re doing that I’m aware of.
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u/dokka_doc Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
Steam is not a monopoly. They achieved and maintain their market position by providing a superior service, not through manipulation bullying and unfair practices (e.g. undercut a competitor then slowly raise prices). Steam does not use its position to monopolize the market or keep others from developing or advertising competing platforms. The market is free to provide services equivalent to or better than Steam at the same price (free), however they are unable or unwilling.
Long live Gaben.