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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] Nfntordr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only because EGS is trying to take market share, not because of the goodness of their own hearts.

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what? That's also the only reason valve supports Linux.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And thereby fighting the Windows monopoly.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Which they don't do out of the goodness of their own hearts either.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Until we have proof that they increase their share of the profit when they reach a certain market share then that's pure speculation on your part.