• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Thank you. It’s crazy how many people support a monopoly until it does something they don’t like. Then it’s “where’s the competition? What are my options?” But they killed them and they did it gladly, thinking the monopoly wouldn’t turn on them.

    Where are the alternatives to Windows? To Chrome? To Android? Or to Steam?

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      6 days ago

      I’m not aware of any monopolistic behaviors from Valve? Can’t fault them for being successful I guess

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          5 days ago

          GoG has a very limited selection, and their lack of regional pricing makes them an absolute non-starter for most of the world.

          Epic is a joke. It took them what, 3 years to implement a shopping cart? Followed by them having to scrap their entire system for a full rebuild because they did such a bad job. I don’t even bother collecting their free games, that’s how little I trust their shit. There’s a non-trivial chance they’ll just close the storefront at some point in the medium future, there’s no way they’re turning a profit on it.

          So no, there’s no real alternative.