this is the reason why i dont like Consoles, If you ignore Video Game choices.
(if you want to know Video Game choice: TF2 Is not on Console for example, ik it used to be but not anymore,but its one of my favorite multiplayer game, no multiplayer video game i found is like it.)

It’s still a monopoly though.

No, it is not. You and the other commentators need to stop repeating that propaganda lie by the true monopolists of PC gaming (Epic, Microsoft,…).

All of Steam combined makes up a fifth of the PC gaming revenue. A fifth! That's a very good percentage but a fifth of anything is not a monopoly and that's not even including mobile and consoles where Valve isn't even competing at the moment.

Fortnite, Rocket League, Valorant, League of Legends, Minecraft, still World of Warcraft, Roblox,… are where all that PC gaming revenue is concentrated but a few mid-tier games sell best on Steam (because the same priced copy on EGS offers worse value) and suddenly everybody keeps repeating the lie of the true monopolists that the company that isn't classified in the EU as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act is a monopoly (but Microsoft is).

The meme I hate is "Valve wins by doing nothing". You cannot be any further from the truth. Valve has won so far by doing many things right, they keep doing many things right. It's like IT or maintenance work, or being God, your work is invisible until everyone dies.

People call Valve a monopoly, and they are right but... is it a monopoly because they wanted to become one? Or because the competitors are completely clueless about what do the customers want? Can we blame Valve on becoming a monopoly when they simply are listening to the customers while the competitors (like Epic) keep ignoring users demands?

EA, Ubisoft, Microslop... they all tried to make their own launchers to move away from Steam and they all failed. Why? Because they wanted to make those launchers their way, while actively telling the users to shut up about their demands on what would make the launchers great.

Epic... Epic keeps throwing fortnite money to EGS launcher but keeps ignoring the most basic user demands.

Like, dude? I'm telling you that, for buying your product, it must have A, B and C. But, instead of offering me that, you make a product that lacks specifically A, B and C. And you expect me to buy it?

It is a monopoly, but because nobody else is even trying. And that pisses me off.

an arm handheld

Yes, that's usually what the hand is at the end of.

Did you see the leg football match last night?

There's no such thing as a good billionaire. Some are less bad than others, but none are good.

I can get wanting to have enough money to live comfortably. But that line is crossed way before the "billionaire" mark.

They have more money than they could ever hope to spend in 10 lifetimes. So it is a conscious decision they make, to say "Instead of putting everything I don't need to a good cause, I'm going to hoard it and buy a few more yachts instead."

Steam is a shitty business. They run a gambling scheme for children, they take a huge cut from devs (blabla industry standard blablabla), they make billions and basically employ less people than an indie studio. The fact that so many gamers would take a bullet to protect this billionaire dude is beyond me. Of course the guy is super right wing, you don't run that type of business without being.

There's also Sunshine/Moonlight and you don't have to buy your games at all.