Cowboy Moment
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Valve doesn't have a sales monopoly though, you can buy Steam keys from many different stores and competition seems very healthy in that space. Think Microsoft would do the same, when the whole purpose of this Windows Store push is to take a cut of all Windows software sales?What the actual fuck is that guy even talking about? Valve has PC market practically on lockdown, you have to go through them unless you are one of the big three. If you're not on Steam you might as well not exist. It's practically a functional monopoly by all possible definitions, but this weirdo seems not too even notice the actual fucking monopoly going on, but instead he keeps ranting about the deadly threat of Microsoft having their own distribution platform, that's currently being used by two people.
What the shit.
Frankly, I'd welcome serious competitors to Steam in principle, but Microsoft's position as the OS vendor would give them way too much power when combined with a dominant software marketplace, as can be seen on Android for example.