Neoliberalism and its consequences
Neoliberalism and its consequences
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Monopolies do have objective advantages, which is why a publicly-owned enterprise monopoly on things like public transports would be amazing. A private monopoly is bad because it's private. I'm not even sure the classical law of market competition isn't a complete myth at this point so maybe monopolies aren't even bad idk
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gog monopoly would be a good thing, as they don't have drm (
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While I've never really had any issues running GOG games through Lutris, they also provide basically 0 Linux support and don't really care about that audience.
Which like, it's small so fair. But Valve up streams Linux stuff all the time and the Steamdeck opened things wide for people to give it a shot, even if their overall contributions get oversold.
So I'm split.
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Valve only strongly supports Linux because Gabe has like a personal vendetta against Microsoft. Not complaining. I think it's great that Steam has broken the Windows lockdown on gaming. It's just funny.
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anyone who actively helps us get away from microsoft is good in my book
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Some of their stuff does :( But they're still 90% better in that regard
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Nationalize steam
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As soon as Gabe dies or retires, Valve is going to be an EA-like company. Mark my words.
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No for-profit company is immune to enshittification. It might happen before Gaben passes, it might happen after, but don't think it's not a very real possibility. Hopefully if it does, they're not so entrenched as the "default" that we end up with another Microsoft situation, simply because most of our games are on Steam and it's what most people use...
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Valve is also kid gambling central
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That's money laundering erasure
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to be fair thats not only tied to gaben, but holds true for basically most free to play games, be it made in the U.S, Japan Korea, China or elsewhere.
its the main reason why for example mobile game companies are trying their hardest to avoid the 17+ rating on their respective playstores (target more kids) the same way hollywood tries to avoid getting the rated R rating.
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I am gonna be honest, I prefer a steam monopoly over having to have 3-4 separate apps to buy and play games.
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steamfront
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