• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But when the EU recently announced service gatekeepers, Valve was not among them. Microsoft is.

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      1 year ago

      *Because they don’t meat the minimum financial and monthly user criterias to be taken into consideration when analyzing the monopoly status of their platform

      You forgot to add that part 👍

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        Because they don’t meat the minimum financial and monthly user criterias to be taken into consideration when analyzing the monopoly status of their platform

        So Steam does not meet / meat🥩 the financial and monthly user numbers to count as a monopoly? So Steam is not a monopoly then. Great.

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          No, the PC videogame market is too small for the European Union to analyse it.

          If the local hardware store is the only one selling screws for 100km around and it doesn’t show up on their list, does it means they don’t have a monopoly or it simply means that they don’t bother checking that because the hardware store doesn’t:

          Make 6.5B a year/doesn’t have a market capitalization of 65B

          Doesn’t have 45m monthly users in the union AND 10k business users in the union

          Meets those criterias three years in a row

          Because these are the criterias required for the EU to take the time to analyze a companies’ position in their market.

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            No, the PC videogame market is too small for the European Union to analyse it.

            Then please provide ANY form of facts-based analysis that Steam is a monopoly and no “Trust me, bro” isn’t that.

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              The European Union considers some companies to be a monopoly with a smaller market presence than Steam has in the PC video games sales market. That comes from your own source buddy.

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                That comes from your own source buddy.

                You continue to deflect that you have no proof that Steam is a monopoly.

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                  1 year ago

                  You have no proof that it isn’t either 🤷

                  Outside of your bad interpretation of the DMA because you couldn’t be bothered to check the criterias for companies to get scrutinized I mean…

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                    You have no proof that it isn’t either 🤷

                    The proof, that I already mentioned, is the fact that no antitrust agency anywhere convicted Valve of anything related to monopoly.