@alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca • 4 months agoIn 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out therewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square225fedilinkarrow-up1807cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1807external-linkIn 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out therewww.pcgamer.com@alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca • 4 months agomessage-square225fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
minus-square@3volver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink16•3 months agoLast time I checked, Epic Games has plenty of money to compete. Monopoly implies competition is actively being stopped. Valve hasn’t done much to stop competition other than making a good product that people use.
minus-square@kaffiene@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•3 months agoNo it doesn’t. Anticompetittive behaviour is a seperate issue. One often imployed by monopolists, but seperate nonetheless.
minus-square@NotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilink1•3 months agoEpic Games also takes 5% of all games that use the Unreal engine, unless you use the Epic store.
Last time I checked, Epic Games has plenty of money to compete. Monopoly implies competition is actively being stopped. Valve hasn’t done much to stop competition other than making a good product that people use.
No it doesn’t. Anticompetittive behaviour is a seperate issue. One often imployed by monopolists, but seperate nonetheless.
Epic Games also takes 5% of all games that use the Unreal engine, unless you use the Epic store.