Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that pushed up prices U.S. households paid by more than $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission detailed in a new court filing on Thursday.
I’m sure the fact that that happened at the same time as Microsoft pushing their Game-Pass and their own Store is just by chance…
don’t kid yourself and think that they did that just for the benefit of the users and not to be able to get games and users away from Microsoft if that’s necessary…
It’s as if you didn’t read what I wrote.
Doesn’t matter whose benefit it was for. It’s here now. I can use proton without Steam if I want to. If Valve goes full satan tomorrow, they still enabled viable PC gaming platforms where before there were none, and someone else can take the source and run with it.
Lots of us refused to run Windows just for games even before the MS store. We made do with what we could get. Now we (mostly) don’t have to. Plus, people who were staying with Win solely due to gaming have a better chance of being able to ditch MS. Given where MS is headed in recent years, that’s a win for personal freedom.
You are arguing with a point I haven’t made.