• ysjet@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Oh please, Sony, Nintendo, Apple, etc all take 30%+. Epic is flailing horribly while running EGS at a deficit held up solely by Fortnige skins and gambling (but it’s ok when they do it right?)

    Physical publishers take 60%+.

    Humble bundle is getting discounted keys because it’s for charity.

    Steam is a publisher. They’ll also finance your game with interest-free loans, you don’t even need to publish your game on Steam.

    More to the point, Steam offers massive value for that 30%- forums, hosting, security, patching services, hosting, matchmaking, dlc options, the list goes on and on… And more importantly, steam doesnt care if you use those services even while selling keys elsewhere. that means that steam doesn’t even get 30% of the take from those keys.

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      3 hours ago

      Dude will rip his shirt to protect a billionaire lol. Kind of remind me of a certain cult…

      I’ll just leave this here and wait for your cognitive dissonance to explain me why it’s perfectly ok:

      • Steam literally invented the “you don’t own you games” model. But let’s just pretend Ubisoft did.

      • Valve’s have create an ecosystem for underage gambling. The main innovation they ever created is making kids addicted to lootbox and shit. In 2023, they made 1 billion fromthat system, it’s FUCKING DISGUSTING. But let’s pretend it’s just Epic and Ubisoft right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eiDhuvM6Y

      I don’t care for any of the business you mentioned, they are all dirty, capitalist and soulless but the fact is that steam is almost a monopoly, and the greediest one. It’s literally it the most profitable company per employee in the United States, fact. So to see an army of dudes willing to do anything to suck a billionaire’s dick is beyond pathetic.