You post the same data now with article that doesn’t even have word “steam” in it. Your various sources weren’t linked. I think that clears why your source is “nonsense”.

Yes my words are changed because, you somehow read me saying multiple times of steam being monopoly in single use of phrase, steam behaves like a monopoly. I repeat, not liking one store doesn’t make me a fan of another, they both are horrible.

As for examples of anti-competitive behaviour, price matching that is being discussed in comments here is a big one, don’t you think?

So much this

Your “source” is an image that doesn’t even differentiate between various stores and lists everything as blue, with text that says “steam revenue is probabaly x billion”. I couldn’t find anything except other similar images when looking up Pelham Smithers reports. In reports from previous years steam is not mentioned. I will rephrase it then if you dislike the word I am using: Steam has a dominant position in the pc gaming market and uses it to their benefit which doesn’t (in my opinion) coincide with consumer benefit, also their app is shit.

P.S.: I’ve used the word monopoly once

It came out okay-ish, no real game-breaking bugs, after patches it is even better.

As evidenced by this post, they are not a monopoly. So what does this statement actually mean?

This post gives evidence of the contrary, game that dared not to be published on platform that has 70-80% of pc market share ( https://www.geekwire.com/2024/gaming-giant-valve-hit-with-another-antitrust-lawsuit-alleging-anticompetitive-practices/ ) shouldn’t even exist and even stating otherwise is a blasphemy, lol. As for more anecdotical examples, games that are published on steam only, are majority most don’t even list other platforms on their web sites, in cases when they can be bought elsewhere. Even more, updates and patches often do not reach other marketplaces. So yeah steam is a shitty marketplace with horrible ui and captured fanatical clients.

Ok, sorry I was wrong. So I can filter out drmed games on steam, right?

Steamcmd looks unrelated, why would I need to use it? Also the wiki page only confirms my earlier thought about steam ui being horrible, whole article is avout how to install it and what kinds of problems exist, not telling how to do some basic things with it.

There is nothing especially sad about it, all religions are equally good/bad.

Yeah after two biggest security fuck ups ever in one year on Azure (that were hushed) microsoft are the ones to sell the story about open-source bad cause unmaintained.

Both are horrible mess, I don’t really understand this deepthroating of steam their ui is horrible, they do behave like a monopoly, games by them have drm by default. Same can be said about epic.

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There is no alah, friend. muslim religion just wasn’t as strong and oppresive on indiginous people back in 12-13 centuries.

Ironically I asked in good faith, you on the other hand are being defencieve for no reason surely there are plenty world known philosophers and scientists that are muslem in the last centuries.

Care to name a few of these people from the last 300 years?

russians of course! Haven’t you heard that not giving your country to russia is nazi-imperialism?

So you assume that other people think that you are an asshole doesn’t actually mean that you think that you are an asshole? It isn’t cherry-picking when discussion started with you generalizing about “men” being not_good by default. There is little that is understandable about such a position, have you tried not to have negative assumptions about yourself and other people that you don’t know?

as a man I’m probably an asshole too

Are you going to try to weasel out of your own words by saing that probably here means that you aren’t actually an asshole and you don’t believe you are?

Unless you are an asshole, why would you say that you are asshole, if you aren’t sure you can ask. Statements like ‘I don’t hate myself, but actually I think that I’m an asshole because someone else is’ are somewhat conflicting.

No, “men” aren’t harmful any more than “women” are, unless you are completely delusional. People don’t assume that random “men” are going to hurt them unless they have serious problems, or living in the active war zone. This over-dramatization doesn’t help anyone and isolates you from absolute majority if you really think that way. You can isolate yourself, just don’t act like it’s normal in any way.

Yes, I’ve even tried to date someone. Everything started great but moved into ‘what am I doing’ territory fast. Ended on awkward note where you say sorry I’m not actually interested after leading another person on for some time.

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