LogFAQs > #945166057

azuarc posted...

Explain to me how a game being pulled from one platform so it can be exclusively on another is competition rather than a monopoly?

I feel like you don't want a real answer but i'll go ahead anyways.

Steam basically has a monopoly market share and has for a long time. Epic is trying to enter the market. There are a ton of people that think like you that they would rather just have one launcher making them entering the market very difficult, despite their better cut for developers and giving away free games.

They are trying multiple approaches to garner a bigger market share including exclusives, incentivizing developers with better cuts and free stuff. While exclusives may not be an ideal its an unfortunate necessity. The amount of inertia steam has is insane, but if egs manages to event make a 20% dent in the market it would be a good thing.

To give an example that might explain why exclusives, while not ideal, aren't really a monopolistic practice. Why doesn't Burger King sell big macs? Why doesn't Mcdonalds sell Whoppers? They are both fast food restaurants that sell burgers (similar to how steam and egs are both places that sell pc video games). It's because they are both markets that want to entice customers instead of their competitors. But at the end of the day they are both selling burgers, just maybe not the one you want, incentivizing you to go to the other.

And yes I know some people don't care and still don't like it. But those same people don't give 2 shits about all the valve games that aren't on egs because it simply doesn't inconvience them.

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