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    1. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic Feb 26
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      Copyright grants every creator a monopoly right on their creative works. How they choose to use that right is up to them; they can give it away, or sell it on one store, or sell it on many stores. There would be no economy supporting game development if this weren’t the case.

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    2. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 26
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      So it's ok when YOU have a monopoly, but not when others have one. Your solution to a Steam "Monopoly" is an actual monopoly, but it's totally ok bc your monopoly pays marginally better? Totally Cool. You are why there has been a resurgence in games piracy. Congrats.

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    3. Alex Hadzaman‏ @Gunmoku Feb 27
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      Replying to @bloodscales19 @TimSweeneyEpic and

      Steam has been closer to a monopoly on the PC platform for years now. All Epic is doing is offering alternative publishing outlets that happen to pay people better dividends than the competition. So...you're basically saying competition = Monopolies?pic.twitter.com/eZbEbQ5I0d

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    4. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      Replying to @Gunmoku @TimSweeneyEpic and

      Now stay with me for this and give me a chance to get all this out because I have a point to make. Competition. You say they are just competing. McDonald's, BK and Wendy's are all the big 3 major fast food competitors. We can all agree on that no? 1/x

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    5. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      They all basically sell the same thing: burgers and Fries. We can agree on this. They compete by offering different deals, prices, qualities, etc. None of them have a monopoly because they all sell the same basic thing. So if BK somehow bought out the producers of meat 2/x

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    6. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      In an area, would they not then have a monopoly on Hamburgers since I wouldn't be able to buy a burger from Wendy's or McDonalds? Now let's say like a small town only has a McDonald's as a fast food restaurant. McDonald's has a monopoly of circumstance. 3/x

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    7. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      It isn't McDonalds fault, and they haven't done anything wrong, they haven't done anything to prevent competition. It isn't steam's fault that they were basically the first to offer a digital storefront for PC games, 4/x

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    8. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      and they did nothing to prevent others from making their own. They didn't do anything to prevent battlenet, origin, uplay, GOG or Epic from setting their shops up and selling. But yeah for a while steam had a monopoly of circumstance. 5/x

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    9. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      and they did nothing to prevent others from making their own. So that isn't a true monopoly. But now let's go ahead and look at what epic is doing and why I call it a monopoly. Borderlands 3, let's use this as our test case. 6/x

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    10. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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      Borderlands 3 is our burgers in our earlier example. Epic bought a 6 month exclusivity. They didn't fund the development of this game from an in house developer, they went to the publisher (2K) and handed them a metaphorical bag of money for exclusivity. 7/x

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      Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic Feb 27
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      Replying to @bloodscales19 @Gunmoku and

      Interesting analogy. Personally I don’t see Borderlands as burgers but as a Double Whopper. It’s fine for the creator of a branded product to choose where to sell it, and that’s a very different situation than a restaurant trying to corner the world market for beef.

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        2. Mortiel‏ @Mortiel Feb 27
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @bloodscales19 and

          The economical analogy actually holds in his example. Brand != Supply. Exclusivity is about blocking supply from competitors so consumers have to go through you as the distributor. Different brands of burger is all the same ingredients, whereas different games are not.

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        3. Vampire Knight‏ @PleaseCapcom Feb 27
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          Replying to @Mortiel @TimSweeneyEpic and

          I also can't make my own Borderlands 3 when I can make my own burgers and there are MANY substitute burgers.

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        2. Edward‏ @EdwardWebbTV Feb 27
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @bloodscales19 and

          1/idk Here’s the thing, I use GOG galaxy 2.0 making the epic launcher less than a icon, just a place where my games are stored. In the end, as a normal consumer, the location of a games file doesn’t matter to me. But here’s the thing.

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        3. Edward‏ @EdwardWebbTV Feb 27
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          2/idk Eating at Jersey Mike’s because of the rewards program, doesn’t mean they have a monopoly over subway. And SW having better cookies doesn’t mean they have a monopoly over JM.

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        1. Balasar‏ @bloodscales19 Feb 27
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          Cool the way you twisted my analogy doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny, but if it makes you feel better about your scummy business practices... cool

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