Rose @ Rose @lemmy.world

[Moved to lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/u/Rose). May not respond here timely

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Depends on the day.

They use the Signal protocol for e2ee.

It's the logic of the comment I responded to. The existence of this upcoming trial alone is proof that the mere presence of alternatives is not enough to claim there's no monopoly in the relevant market.

How's In the Valley of Gods doing?

So they are still not absolute in that the users still get to buy a PC or an Android phone or get satellite connectivity via a global ISP, which boils the issue down to inconvenience/cost/hardship, not the absence of alternatives.

Can you provide a real-world example of what constitutes a monopoly in your eyes?

One can appreciate Valve's contributions to Linux gaming without idealizing them. The likely reason they went for Linux is that they would have to pay Microsoft to use Windows.

They're heathens, obviously.

According to a Valve quote from the complaint (p. 55), it applies to everything:

In response to one inquiry from a game publisher, in another example, Valve explained: “We basically see any selling of the game on PC, Steam key or not, as a part of the same shared PC market- so even if you weren’t using Steam keys, we’d just choose to stop selling a game if it was always running discounts of 75% off on one store but 50% off on ours. . . .”

Sure, but Valve essentially reserve the right to no longer sell your game if it's offered cheaper elsewhere. See the quotes on pages 54 through 56 of the complaint.

You can read the complaint in full here.

Edit: Updated with a more recent version.

That's like saying racism doesn't exist because there are black people in power.

Fixed! I think it was the only exception, though the better way to title my post would have been to say "older". Even a 2022 game isn't old.

Perhaps like many here, I haven't played enough 2023 games to make a confident choice in every category of the Steam Awards, so I looked for games from the prior years, released in 2023 on Steam.

While I don't agree with the idea of a 2019 game being named the game of the year in 2024, the choice is there and we might as well use it and remind Valve that their system is flawed.

There are multiple factors that make this trial different. Most importantly, it's a jury trial. There are also internal conversations and memos between Google employees that might paint them in a worse light compared to Apple, though you never know. One thing that might work in Google's favor is indeed the trial against Apple that was mentioned in this case. The jury might have been instructed not to read about it to know its outcome (though pending appeals), but they don't live in total isolation or necessarily stick to every instruction.

Must have learned that from his role model, Putin.

So what's the benefit of this over blending in each time?

Not from the perspective of someone whose only strength in the war in Ukraine is the number of people.