You’re drinking all the tech bro Kool-Aid that the lawyers and paid bots/shills have thrown out there on the internet. Valve has threatened the market dominance of large tech companies and there’s been a ton of negative press pushed for them lately.

There’s lots of platforms to release your game online Minecraft famously didn’t go on steam and it’s one of the largest games of all time.

You can self-publish as a solo Dev and make one of the largest games of all time without steam. Tell me how that’s a monopoly.

You got fortnite out here on the epic game store. Also one of the largest games of all time no steam, no valve. Tell me that’s a monopoly.

You’ve got itch.io, Gog, Microsoft game store, epic game store, and there’s always the option to skip the PC market and go straight to consoles if you wanted. You have choices as a developer. Steam is just simply the best fucking one.

Both. Steam is already the market leader in its industry. You just keep doing what you’re doing and you win.

Not to mention all the heavy metals that plants extract to grow and then we concentrate that in one place means that the lead concentration is out of safe daily levels for most servings of plant protein…

I did, still poor. I get half my meals for free (food service) still poor. I split rent with 4 other people to the point where my bills are the lowest they’ve ever been in my life, still poor. Still poor, still poor and not making enough and everything keeps getting more expensive.

Haven’t pirated a game in over a decade