A new Dutch class action has been filed against Valve Corporation, the company behind Steam. The case is brought by the Stichting Consumenten Competition Claims (CCC), which has launched the proceedings under the name GameClaim. The foundation acts on behalf of all Dutch PC gamers who have purchased games through Steam or other PC distribution platforms since 2013, IGN Benelux reports.
No need to put monopoly in quotes. Owning 85% of the market is a monopoly. Do you want them to reach 100% for you to go “yep, now it’s a monopoly, now we should do something”?
A monopoly doesn’t need monopolistic behaviour to be a monopoly. The monopolistic behaviour Steam has is what’s being targeted. If Steam were impeding competition in other ways, those would have to be dealt with too.
Just because you have a favourite friend, doesn’t mean they can’t do wrong.
well, i guess if they stop them from being monopoly it lowers the risk of valve going bad. if they went bad it would be a nightmare scenario for games. At the very least for me since proton is only way i can even play stuff easily on linux.
Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn’t the goal here. If it were, I don’t even know how they would approach it, because from what I can tell, Valve owns the market so much because it simply is good.
But yeah, Valve going bad would be a catastrophe for gaming.
only way to stop them from being monopoly would require anti-consumer actions, penalizing them for providing better service than others (which is what i assume is the goal of the “competitors” such as epic so they dont have to provide good service to compete).
Imo, these things should always be done user interests first, companies will manage always anyway. In the worst case the ceo can buy few yacts less.
And no one will do anything to stop it—just hoping and praying that Gabe doesn’t die or turns ‘evil’ to them.
Well, I’m not buying Steam games anymore, so I’m doing my part 🤷