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Other games aren't a competition for a platform like Steam, that's a different market. Steam has a monopoly because they have a extremely dominant position without real competition in their sector, they don't have to engage in anti-competitive practices against games outside of steam to have that...

That's not at all what a monopoly is, it's simply the absence of competition aka the market position. You don't have to engage in anti-competitive practices to havw a monopoly, I don't get why that's so hard to understand for many here...

Abother user made a very good comment about this under my post, might be worth checking out!

Not even going to click on that, the domain tells me everything I need to know considering the topic we talk about!

Never ask them where VW produces cars!

Well, the game was stuck on 1.8 longer than any other version especially if you also consider all the servers that refused to switch for years because Mojang didn't do a especially good job with the new combat system!

A monopoly refers to the market position, you don't have to abuse your monopoly to have one...

I bet they make a shit ton of money but they certainly seem to reinvest enough of it too. There is a interesting concept called purpose companies here in Europe but it's not especially wide spread or planned by regulators so the transition is extremly complicated and expensive. The search engine Ecosia is a relatively well known one, it's basically a company in self ownership where no one from outside can become CEO and no one can sell or go public, they are obligated to their chosen purpose and that's where their profits go (in the case of Ecosia that's planting trees), not sure how it works exactly or if it's doable in the USA at all tho.

Well, what makes a monopoly is the position in the market, without the obligation to infinite growth that doesn't have to involve anti-competitive prectices.

Everyone likes to shit on Epic so it's probably not a very unpopular opinion ether but there is a big difference between the App and Play store and Steam, only one of them doesn't use anti-competiive practices and the other two also force their payment provider which is rather shitty!

I wish something like that existed, once you go public you are obligated to grow and that has limits so you always end up squeezing your users! :/

It wasn't, it works for Nvidia, people just don't want to pay for their games twice and that broke Stadias neck...

Not directly related but this Gabe quote still seems somewhat fitting: "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

The position makes a monopoly so I would say they are but they remain the good guys because they don't engage in anti-competitive practices, you can have a monopoly wven if you don't abuse it.

The position makes a monopoly, not the reason...

I hate DRM but really like Steam, they put in a shit ton of work to achive that! It's certainly a monopoly but I think one of the biggest differences is that it's not a publically tradet company so they don't have to chase that infinite growth many very influencial idiots don't see any issue with and there for aren't willing to destroy everything for short term gains.

I think Minecraft launchers have their own setting for Java versions but I have no clue which one they select and I am almost certain Java 8 (which as far as I remember was the version for that Minecraft version) won't be the Arch Linux default.

If I had to guess I would blaim that on Java, maybe try to reinstall Java 8 and make sure it's actually selected in the launcher rather than a newer version!

Fuck, it's still rare but at times I do feel kind of old!

A shame Opera is a privacy nightmare sending data directly to China!