In this case Steam is indeed a monopoly as you must have the Steam client in order to run the game, even offline.
Unlike, say, ArmA II where you can purchase the game on Steam, or not, and anyone can play online in any server they choose, no matter how they purchased it.
And I'm really starting to think that there a a lot of shills on both forums now promoting Steam as if there life depended on it.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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