All this talk with valve being a “good” monopoly are such horse shit. Valve WILL enshittify, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, buts it’s coming and people are acting like it won’t happen.
At the same time, people drastically overestimate how big of a deal it would be…
Someone could always just stop buying games on there.
And if it did “go away” and people lost their games, they think how much they’ve spent on games over decades, and not how much it would cost to replace what they still play.
Out of all the real life horrible shit going on, very few people have the longevity of Valve as a priority.
It’s not 100% safe but at this point it’s more likely to be here in 20 years than the country it’s based in.
But besides all that, I don’t think you know what the word “monopoly” means if you think steam is one.
All this talk with valve being a “good” monopoly are such horse shit. Valve WILL enshittify, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, buts it’s coming and people are acting like it won’t happen.
At the same time, people drastically overestimate how big of a deal it would be…
Someone could always just stop buying games on there.
And if it did “go away” and people lost their games, they think how much they’ve spent on games over decades, and not how much it would cost to replace what they still play.
Out of all the real life horrible shit going on, very few people have the longevity of Valve as a priority.
It’s not 100% safe but at this point it’s more likely to be here in 20 years than the country it’s based in.
But besides all that, I don’t think you know what the word “monopoly” means if you think steam is one.
Imagine thinking valve isn’t an absolute monopoly in PC video game industry
I mean, it’s not. GOG is pretty decent too, at the very least.
– Frost