The truth is nobody really made a good effort to compete with them early on. Epic seems to be the only one making a serious effort at this point. Also services

The truth is nobody really made a good effort to compete with them early on. Epic seems to be the only one making a serious effort at this point. Also services like steam are naturally sticky/monopolistic because there's a network effect with the games. Consumers don't want to have multiple services that do the same thing, so if you have a handful of games on steam, may as well use it for all. There really needs to be protocols for ownership etc, such that the UI is decoupled from the ownership aspect. otherwise network effect makes it monopoly-esque. It's a principle that promotes greater competition across many types of businesses