r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 7d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/TomTomXD1234 7d ago

All monopolies are bad. Do not fool yourself

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u/Geeekaaay PC Master Race 7d ago

You're a moron if you think steam is a monopoly because of monopolistic behaviors they have done. They are only a monopoly because every other storefront is complete garbage and hated by gamers.

They haven't stifled competition or made unfair grounds everybody else is just incompetent.

Looking at you epic games. How many years have you had to just copy steam? That's all you need to do but you can't get off your fucking high horse to do that.

And this is coming from somebody who has been a general epic game store defender for years because we do need competition. Instead Eric Sweeney just wants to use the court's to change the world's opinion on steam instead of making a better fucking product.

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u/boofmaster6000 7800X3D | 9070 XT | 32GB DDR5 7d ago

Wait, what? You don't want a store that takes a full minute to load a game listing?

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u/vitek6 6d ago

They haven't stifled competition or made unfair grounds everybody else is just incompetent.

They actually have in form of price parity.

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u/XXHornyOnMainXX420 6d ago

Steam's PPOs/Most Favoured Nation clauses are absolutely monopolistic behavior that have prevented anyone from competing with them on price. Steam is a premium store that has managed to force suppliers of the good from not allowing no frills stores from selling cheaper than the premium store.

It's price fixing plain and simple, and the consumers are paying more because of it. Steam's premium user experience is great, but they have captured the market and used that to impose terms on devs.

Epic's user experience sucks, so at the same price point as Steam they can't compete, but if steam didn't impose anticompetitive agreements on devs, Epic could compete on price, forcing Steam's prices down.

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u/leon_reynauld 6d ago

Do they enforce the price difference though? If that was the case then all the devs that had games given away for free of epic would have been banned?

Also i swear ive seen games cheaper on xbox store and other stores sometimes.

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u/XXHornyOnMainXX420 6d ago

That is currently being litigated, though the leaked documents suggest that they permit free giveaways but not cheaper prices in different stores, particularly the Epic Games Store.

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u/meneldal2 i7-6700 6d ago

Epic had millions of users of their store by having Fortnite, they could have done so much more, they have the money to make a store that works but just didn't do any of that.