• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    You forced it on people by demanding it for a must-have game… which came on discs. To some extent, even now, fuck you.

    Other comments talk about great sale prices, which is often an anticompetitive practice called “dumping.”

    I’d be less blunt if people could admit it’s a monopoly. ‘Oh I never even consider other stores.’ Uh-huh. ‘I mean there’s competitors, but they hardly matter. Even billion-dollar companies can’t make theirs relevant.’ You don’t say. ‘Valve can even afford to let devs sell keys wherever, and the customers still get their ecosystem!’ Yeah, wow. We have a word for that. ‘How dare you.’