• @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      22 years ago

      *Because they don’t meat the minimum financial and monthly user criterias to be taken into consideration when analyzing the monopoly status of their platform

      You forgot to add that part 👍

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        Because they don’t meat the minimum financial and monthly user criterias to be taken into consideration when analyzing the monopoly status of their platform

        So Steam does not meet / meat🥩 the financial and monthly user numbers to count as a monopoly? So Steam is not a monopoly then. Great.

        • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          22 years ago

          No, the PC videogame market is too small for the European Union to analyse it.

          If the local hardware store is the only one selling screws for 100km around and it doesn’t show up on their list, does it means they don’t have a monopoly or it simply means that they don’t bother checking that because the hardware store doesn’t:

          Make 6.5B a year/doesn’t have a market capitalization of 65B

          Doesn’t have 45m monthly users in the union AND 10k business users in the union

          Meets those criterias three years in a row

          Because these are the criterias required for the EU to take the time to analyze a companies’ position in their market.