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[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's only a monopoly in that it's so much more popular than everything else that's come along, and the main reason for that is because it's better than competitors. Most others are just publisher stores, and almost all have functionality that users disagree with.

In the OP article, the game distribution platform Rokky is also apparently a publisher store, having recently bought the rights to distribute Chinese games in the west.

[–] thenose@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree. There are other stores you can get your games from, that never got mentioned in this piece. I personally love GOG for that purpose. There aren’t many new games in there but there are big and day one releases

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago

Yes if GOG is an option I go for that.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I avoided signing up for years because I thought it would lead to us only owning a revokable digital license to every new game. Oh how the turn tables.

[–] a_person@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

*Oh, how the turn tables turn.