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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8678687" data-attributes="member: 16814">The relevant question is why.  It's not because the sales service, but rather the advertising one.  And that's only because the structure of paying for the advertising is convenient and relatively inexpensive compared to other options.  You don't have a monopoly because you have a big megaphone to advertise with.  OBS/DTRPG is not using their megaphone to silence competitors or your products not on their site, they're using it to promote their customers.  This is not what a monopoly looks like.  Neither is the ease and lower cost of using their sales service.  Taking advantage of economies of scale to offer a service at a good price is also not a monopoly.  OBS is not engaged in any of the classic monopolistic behaviors, they are just the big fish in the small pond.Otherwise, we really need to go after WotC for their monopoly on the RPG market, and how they won't let me put whatever I want into D&D or on DM's Guild.  They're silencing me with their monopoly.</blockquote>