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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

No, I'm just tired of chuds parroting astroturfed bullshit from epic game's massive PR campaign against valve that they did instead of improving their service.

Valve did not invent 'you don't own your games', nor did they invent DRM. The entire reason it took off was that it was one of the first PC game DRMs that didn't suck ass.

Valve did not create the gambling systems, they created a trading system and a marketplace that third parties abused to create gambling sites. If they didn't have it, you would complain that you cant trade cards or items or hats.

Steam is hilariously far from "the greediest monopoly" lmao. It's like you've never heard of ma bell, meta, or alphabet lol.