Valve wouldn't do that. They're not THAT greedy.

I doubt Valve is so bad and the money to be made is so little when especially Japanese devs start to release so many of their games on Steam. In the past they didn't give a damn about PC gaming.

I also love the fact that I can easily give a game back if I try it for an hour and see that it isn't for me. 

Sure, there are some things not perfect and that is something you will find with every bigger company on this planet. Sony, Microsoft and soon Nintendo want money from us to pay for online, money many especially younger people have less to spend on games they would like to buy and so on...

There is no "company X is so great for everyone, let's just condemn the other ones"

Monopolies are not naturally a bad thing. Only when they start charging really expensive prices are they bad, and steam is known for how CHEAP their games are, so I'm not really sure what the op is getting at?

Not surprised OP misses the point. Corporations are not your friend. You are shilling for your beloved Sony, Microsoft, Steam, Nintendo, Blizzard, Respawn (Turkish) for free. Actually not free, taking precious time out of your life to do it.

As long as one is self aware, which Turkish never is. As for steam, i don't need an article to tell me that.

Valve is nowhere near the problem or a monopoly on PC. If anything Steam is the solution and is very helpful. PC gamings biggest and most exploitive monopoly is Microsoft and it has been this way for decades. Windows says hello. 

And that puts things in perspective. Knowing Polygon's reputation with Microsoft makes me question the intentions of this article. 

Lul polygon. Of course the people who are so disconnected would make an article like this

^This^

It's not surprising to see the article being thumbed up from a guy who isn't that much into the platform, let alone the different ecosystems.

The last thing I want is someone who ins't into the platform, dictating how I game, the prices as well as the modding community. No thank you.

Also the competition with the likes of EA and Ubisoft, as well as Bethesda are all lazy in their own right, especially with their own clients and sales.

And those disconnected with the platform in general are likely to pass it around  

I wonder when the next article putting Steam or PC in a bad light will surface.

Either way Steam is here to stay, just like all the other companies that have their own bad clients, that are all also out to get your money.

Of course steam is evil, they won't allow uncensored eroge.