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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by Qahlel on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:15AM (#26168039)
> Do gamers like the current culture of having to have Origin, Steam, UPlay, Epic, GOGs, Blizzard Store, for no other reason than large middlemen playing Civ with marketshare and exclusives?

I don't like my game library is fragmented. But what if Steam was the only store for PC and I wasn't able to buy/play any Epic or EA games because of that? That would be worse.

Or what if the game prices had to be higher than current prices since the only place I can buy a game was steam and there was no competition?

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by Spivak on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:43AM (#26168379)
> But what if Steam was the only store for PC and I wasn't able to buy/play any Epic or EA games because of that? That would be worse.

I guess but if Steam was genuinely the only place where people bought games then Epic and EA games would have no choice but to list on Steam which makes you better off, no?

> Or what if the game prices had to be higher than current prices since the only place I can buy a game was steam and there was no competition?

This I think is the meat of the argument but I think it falls down because competition gets weird with software and copyrighted properties. There's no competition between Steam and Origin for games that are only on Origin. If Microsoft Word is only available on the Windows Store for iOS then there's nothing to compete over for a user that needs Word.

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