What are “shadowbans”? I’ve seen this term used multiple times by reddit people and have no idea what to imagine.
You ban a shadow? But what’s a shadow?
You’re banned from a community and then shadowed / followed by the moderator?
You’re banned and everybody who responded to you too? (Everybody in your shadow).
So lost.
On mbin, following is easy too. Dunno about lemmy.
Well, I’m not buying Steam games anymore, so I’m doing my part 🤷
Need money for the war machine now, don’cha?
Shareholder benefit on the other hand…
All those stores just sell the game on steam, so we’re back to steam being the cheapest. This is why the lawsuit exists.
I looked at the examples you gave and in all of them, Steam has the lowest price . I added an example of Doom Eternal
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.
Could you share an example of a deal that is less than on Steam? I couldn’t find one.
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.
One can only hope that they actually see the light, but my bet is it would be way too expensive (in terms of money and willingness to retrain) to switch to Linux and they’ll just shrug and continue. Hopefully I’m wrong.
Used both, never will again unless forced to.
Infect everybody in the manosphere and watch them deal with it.
Typical beta behavior.
Grandfather of another child picks up the wrong child, turns around gets the right child: time to completely freak out 🙄
People in the comments are vehemently supporting a monopolist because the monopolist is currently good. No wonder people are so easy to control. If you keep them distracted for long enough, you can take everything they own and they’ll only notice once the lights go off and the chair stolen from underneath their fat asses.
We deserve Trump and every single politician we get because we’re such a bunch of idiots.
Maybe if you read the goddamn article you’d know of one?
The foundation claims that Valve holds a dominant position in the market, estimated at around 85%, and is breaching competition law through so-called Most-Favoured Nation clauses. According to the complaint, these terms prevent developers from selling games more cheaply on rival platforms like the Epic Games Store than on Steam. This, they argue, keeps prices across the PC gaming market artificially elevated.
Fuck these people. They have to be forced to do the right thing. We should be voting to tax the wealth of these fucks.
What am I missing? Corporate IT will stop using Windows?
Tax those fuckers. Tax their wealth, FFS.