Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford predicted that the Epic Games Store would kill off Steam 5 years ago, now the internet is mocking him as Borderlands 4 comes crawling back
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The lesson? Never tweet.

It’s almost as if the real money is where the customers are at, and not in little Timmy’s wallet.

  • AwesomeLowlanderEnglish
    3•27 days ago

    See my other comment. You appear to have confused a monopoly with a dominant market position.

    • @LizardqueenEnglish
      2•27 days ago

      Oh yes I see it now. You posted it right after my response. And I do agree with what you say there. I however do believe that the destinction between a true monopoly and a dominant market position such as steam has is essentially irrelevant in this context. In a market economy you would expect very few (or even no ? ) true monopolies except those run by the state. And not being a true monopoly doesn’t stop dominant firms from being able exploit monopolistic powers.

      However my point is that steam doesn’t exploit it’s market position while it could definitely choose to. On that we seem to agree I think