• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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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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      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

      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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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            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.