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steam is a monopoly
they're engaging in price fixing, which is pretty much by definition monopolistic activity, by denying publishers the ability to price games lower on other distribution platforms
if ea, the otherwise second largest distributor on the platform, can't compete without crawling its way back to steam, then it's pretty clearly a monopoly
The price fixing is only for steam keys which is completely reasonable.
The mere existence of the Epic shop, let alone Humble, Itch, hell, the ifcomp.org and /usr/ports/games exposes your wild hyperbole.
"exposes your wild hyperbole" lmao
your argument is that all these organisations are successively: setting up shop, attempting to compete with steam, and then failing, should be all the proof you need that steam has a monopoly on the PC market
comcast doesn't have less of a monopoly on internet just because google fiber exists in one city somewhere