Steam Has 70% Of Digital Distribution

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Scoobes said:

Ail said:

Scoobes said:
Valve has a monopoly on PC game downloads then? They must be swimming in cash!

Not quite.

They actually don't distribute the biggest selling PC game of the last 5 years ( world of warcraft) and won't distribute the best selling game of 2009 ( Starcraft 2).

No, but they have 70% share of all PC digital downloads, so in that respect, they have a monopoly on digital downloads (assuming Starcraft 2 is disc based).

Monopoly means exclusive or 100%.  However, I understand that some people use it as slang for 90%+.  You are likely looking for different slang as you are just referring to an estimation of 70% market share.  That same estimation includes another company as having 10%, which completely destroys your monopoly theory.