Everything you say has been debunked and is straight up misinformation.

https://youtu.be/pLmJjwPu66w?is=Ds2E04JJiLY1STix

No one is saying you can’t use Steam.

Listen, they meet the market definition of a monopoly with 75%. That is higher than Microsoft, another well known monopoly.

I really don’t care what the courts say. There are numerous testimonials proving without a doubt they have engaged in price fixing. Specifically, they request that any game that is listed on Steam cannot be listed somewhere else for a lower regular price.

This is classic monopoly behavior and your feelings really don’t matter.

Thanks for bringing up their other unbelievably shitty practices though. Did you know they used to not offer refunds? Yeah, a court smacked them down which lead to their stellar return policy.

Stop pretending they are anything but a corporation.

You mean Steam… the monopolistic company that is using price fixing on the entire PC game industry?

Not exactly what I was thinking to be honest. It is certainly standard hardware on Linux that is supported by a community though, so it isn’t all bad.

It could be as simple as that. But I was thinking a nonprofit with standardized hardware and a team to integrate it with Linux properly. All the games can be open source and community supported.

We could call it the Playtendobox.

Looks like it is time to build a platform for the people. A commoners console if you will. It is clear we have to move beyond these corporations for gaming now. They bought up all the studious and now they are killing them all so they can deliver us AI slop instead.

“tried every approach”

Oh Lord that is rich coming from the PR department.