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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Replying to @bloodscales19 @Gunmoku and
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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Replying to @bloodscales19 @Gunmoku and
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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Replying to @bloodscales19 @Gunmoku and
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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Replying to @bloodscales19 @Gunmoku and
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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Replying to @bloodscales19 @Gunmoku and
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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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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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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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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Replying to @PleaseCapcom @TimSweeneyEpic and
Economically it's like this: Any Burger 1 = Game 1, Any Cheeseburger = Game 1 deluxe edition; Any Fries = Game 2, Any Chili Fries = Game 2 with DLC. It makes sense that Tim would muddle this analogy. Otherwise, he'd be admitting that Epic doesn't have the moral high ground.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @PleaseCapcom and
Or, better formed: A Whopper, as Tim mentioned, would be more like Fortnite for Epic. Epic made it, it's their own unique product. Borderlands 3 is the generic cheeseburger that is also on BK's menu. It's pretty much the same from all other sources. BK just markets Whoppers.
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Replying to @Mortiel @TimSweeneyEpic and
Again, making Borderlands 3 exclusive would be making generic cheeseburgers exclusive to only BK. Not just Whoppers. That's the analogy here.
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