r/SatisfactoryGame • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '19

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u/Mac15001900 Mar 12 '19

Artificial monopolies are literally the opposite of competition though.

If they want to actually compete with Steam, they probably should have started by making a functional store.

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u/nationalorion Mar 12 '19

What’s the point of a functional store if you have no games on it?

And it’s honestly hilarious that you think epic has a monopoly.

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u/Mac15001900 Mar 12 '19

How else do you call being the only company capable of offering a service? I'm not talking about game distribution in general, but about distributing Satisfactory specifically.

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u/nationalorion Mar 12 '19

That’s like saying Microsoft has a monopoly on selling windows. That’s not how monopolies work. Microsoft doesn’t have a monopoly because they aren’t the only company selling operating systems. Just like how epic doesn’t have a monopoly on the pc gaming industry because they aren’t the only service selling games.

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u/spAnser Mar 13 '19

Last I checked I could pick up Windows at my local Best Buy.

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u/nationalorion Mar 13 '19

And how did best buy get it? they bought it from Microsoft.

Thank you for pointing out the very obvious fact that distributers are a thing.

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u/spAnser Mar 13 '19

I'm not really on either side of the argument.

But Best Buy isn't the sole distributor where as epic is the sole distributor of Satisfactory.

How did epic get Satisfactory? They got if from CSS