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[โ€“] Don_alForno@feddit.org 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People don't want their library split on multiple stores. There's always going to be a monopoly because of that,

Nah. We could introduce regulation mandating that libraries have to be interoperable.

[โ€“] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

They already could do it. They just do it in a very shitty way. What do you think EA launcher and Ubisoft game is doing on steam? They NEED their own launcher/store for the game to run when you purchase it FROM STEAM.