Every time I see a post with this specific claim, targeted at Valve, i just can’t help but laugh.

Yes. They take a cut.

Yes. Everyone else takes the same cut, so you’re biased, if you don’t understand this.

Yes. They are an undisputed leader in the market, but no, that’s not called a monopoly.

The difference is that Valve, while taking this cut, and being as big as they are, are consistently investing that money into improvement of the platform, AND also paying people to directly contribute to OSS, that affects everyone else in the market too.

This isn’t even a bogus claim, but just a waste of everyone’s time

If there is nothing wrong then the investigation will show this. But the claims argue that they use their undisputed market dominance (your words) to do stuff that is anti competitive.

The fact there are alternatives does not matter if the dominant player abuses their position to stiffle competition.

A prosecutor has to make their case, Valve gets to rebuke the claims.

I’d say, welcome investigation into large corporations. There should be more. The fact that mega corps like the Petro industry where and still are not properly monitored is bad for everyone. A corporation is not a human being, and it’s feelings cannot be hurt, but it can do a lot of bad things.

If it turns out there is Merrit to the claims, it is good for everyone. Why the urge to defend a multi billion dollar company? I’m not saying everyone should dust off the pitchforks either. Let the law do its thing.

Steam will not be better than it is now. I have been using it for years and not much has changed. There is no reason for it to improve for the consumers when it’s the top dog.