From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • Thirdborne@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Listen. Some of us have our life savings in our Steam library. If competition ever drives Steam bankrupt, we go down with the ship! We take Steam’s health personally and very seriously. Your mumbo jumbo about competition doesn’t factor into it.

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      10 months ago

      No one wants Steam bankrupt, they just want more than one videogame vendor on PC to be viable.

      “Mumbo jumbo about competition” I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or are just legitimately a braindead moron.

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        10 months ago

        There are exceptions to the notion that competition is good. If we attempt to map out all the exceptions, we will be left with mumbo jumbo. Economic libertarianism is the true death of the brain. Some monopolies are good and any threat to the monopoly is a threat to the consumer.