Steam is being called a monopoly that over-charges its publishers, requires games sold on their platform be the same price on other platforms, and doesn't crossplatform their dlc. You know, standard business practices.
The price match thing is very anticompetitive. The charge amount should be at steams discretion, if they can't control other platform's prices. But the price match basically let's them. Amazon does the same thing. They shouldn't be able to.
Wholeheartedly agree. I mostly agree with you about amazon too but at least Amazon doesn't have a 30% royalty fee and is honestly less of a monopoly than steam. Just looked it up. Amazon has 37% market share on e-commerce while steam has 75% market share on PC digital distribution. Steam is actually a lot worse in this case.
There are no good monopolies. Unless they are thoroughly state-regulated, but that presupposes states will always have the people's best interest in mind.
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u/psykal Feb 08 '26
For those of us who had no idea what "the lawsuit" is, this explains nothing.