Well you have ever more expensive hardware that uses ever more reolsources to run ever more expensive games that are ever more buggy and ever deeper into the uncanney valley.
Mobile gaming on the other hand is filled with shitty addictive games filled with ads and micro transactions to scam children and the elderly out of their money. Not that desktop/console games don't also have addictive micro transactions either.
If this doesn't feel stupid to you I don't know what does.
Digital terminals are a huge source of pollution for pure luxury, and gaming is a very good representation of the stupidity of the overconsumption society.
My desktop is set to light mode. Changing the preferred mode in the devtools doesn't change anything. On mobile changing the theme of the whole site doesn't work (but it does for other sites).
I'm on Firefox, Arch Linux and Android, but it also happens in a Chrome-based browser I tried.
The steam documentation mentions for keys that while it is OK to run sales on different platforms at different times, the steam store must have similar sales within a reasonable time period, and he base price must not be higher on steam.
But looking mosre closely than I did previously this is based on:
An contract that is apparently not public
A 1 time example that Valve denies
So I don't really know, but if what valve says is true (which looks like it is), then I don't see any monopoly abuse indeed.
They do have a monopoly, but it's in large part for providing a better service. As a Linux user, I prefer Valve 100% over Epic that buys Rocket league and discontinues linux support. I do prefer Itch and GOG for the possibility of no-DRM games, but I've got to say it's overall a worse experience (no auto updates, no social features etc...)
I made my initial comment after watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOEG5qmMQas which suggested that Steam applied the MFN for non steam - enabled games too, but was done prior to Valve's response.
They don't have a client but both allow you to just download the game and run it from a .sh that installs it in the local folder. That's enough for me but I agree it may not be for everyone.
Not even Cyberpunk or the Witcher could sell more on gog than on steam even though you knew that there the developers got 100% of the money spent.
Most gamers don't know and/or don't care, so they will take the least resistance path, which is Steam.
Steam has a "most favoured nation clause" which prevents companies from actually selling for cheaper on other platform. This is how steam maintains its monopoly. If it were possible for CD Projekt Red to sell it cheaper outside of steam it would force steam to actually charge developers less.
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And it's not just r/askreddit all subreddits I tried show a similar drop, including the ones that still seem relatively active.