Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Only if you are selling a steam key elsewhere, they ask you to treat them equivalently but that doesn't mean you can't do sales for your products on other platforms. It's a little weird cause it would be like buying an apple app on android to use on apple but apple doesn't get the 30% anymore so they ask you to at least price it about the same so people don't avoid buying from them completely.

Sure but it means there is no other competition though. That could be price collusion but epic takes a completely different cut amount and other stores have different prices for games. Just because other definitions exist doesn't answer the question, it avoids it by saying something else entirely. Is Steam a monopoly?

You are insistent on not changing your perspective on it being a monopoly because you want it to be one. It's not like your scenario. Other people have figured it out. Epic game store is right there and so is GOG and others. People do buy from them and some prefer them. The problem is that you want it to be a monopoly as an excuse for why people are using the service more than others. That is simply not the case. You ignore that people do shop around sometimes and others don't cause it's easy and not everyone is how you think of them. You are Don Quixote yelling at the windmills thinking it's gonna save the country. Have an actual alternative you want instead of just being upset how things are.

Right but that's an ease of purchase thing. They could buy elsewhere. The option exists, there is no lack of viable options and people still take it. Not by definition a monopoly. So you are angry that people are lazy and don't shop around too much. Your issue is with the consumer so you want someone to step in and force them different because you don't like their actions?

But they could release their own installer like CD project Red and other studios do. They don't want to miss out on the ease of the installer that enables a larger market share. That's not a monopoly. Literally.

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That's most likely just cause they enjoy the auto downloader, patch tools and antichrist software that they can bundle in. GOG has installers for AAA games like Witcher and Baldurs Gate 3 because the developers were better about giving the option. Heck lots of AAA games on epic. We don't complain about PlayStation and Nintendo exclusives. Blame the developers for liking the easy features to only be on Steam. Ask them to change not Valve.

Is there a monopoly though? Other store fronts exist. They are usable and often sell the same games. It's not Nestle owning half the food options in every food store, this is whole foods, vs all the other grocery stores. You can get game pass and stream your games and never own them past your subscription lasts. Or the Microsoft game store which isn't great but exists. GOG gives you installers and has big games on it. Fanatical, GMG, Humble Bundle, are all store fronts. You could even consider Nintendo and PlayStation to have their own game storefronts while needing their hardware. Is Steam a monopoly?

I was really interested in VR after trying it a bunch of times and when Microsoft did their whole partnered VR headsets thing they failed so miserably I managed to get one for like $60 brand new. And then I realized it works well for like an hour tech demo and playing around in short bursts but otherwise is just a TV strapped to your face, hot and sweaty and kinda uncomfortable and your eyes kinda hurt after a while and the games kinda all sucked since no one had a sense of hardware capabilities... It's hyper niche and isn't really for everyone but how could companies argue against a TV strapped to your face.

Can I be completely honest? The libertarian contested definition aside the thing that made me realize you were being purposefully obstinate and contrarian for your own giggles was; > While I appreciate USB-C port at the top so you can rest your Switch on your legs and charge it at the same time, that’s not exactly convenient. Literally the definition of convenient is it being more accommodating or more comfortable or easy to do. Having 2 ports on either side that charge and do data is incredibly convenient and much better than a singular since charging is a constant of all wireless electronics and this makes that process more convenient. And then the person you were chatting to responded practically that and you bailed the conversation cause you couldn't be contrarian. You are purposefully stubborn and acting in a way that doesn't make you even different it's just a similar as always level of self righteous.

No I don't care about that. I don't fit in either but actively being rude is not just not fitting in but being purposefully rude. There is a difference and your refusal to acknowledge that is so that you can avoid having to look at yourself and your actions critically. You don't have to change but there are repercussions from the existence of others seeing your actions and if you don't care about them do not expect others to care about you.

You are not exposing stuff. You are acting like a childish jerk who stubbornly ignores other people for your own sense of righteousness. Doubling down and refusing to listen to others does not make you a better person in the long run.

In so happy for Inner/Outersloth. I really hope they end up like a new Annapurna with just some banger indie titles that's good for the industry instead of a rich brats ego.

I'm now replacing this game with Clockwork Revolution to keep an eye on since it's the producer of the first 2 fallout games.

I also do not understand people's desire to be part of the group so much they buy things that aren't what they want and just play it anyways. I think it's just all forms of addiction.

That and the completely garbage inventory with no good filter and sort. That first game felt like a demo with lot of polish but didn't feel like a precursor for an $80 game. And already cost me $30 for the first time of meh.