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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Man, Epic must be patting themselves on the back for all the money they paid getting people to believe 30% was outrageous, because it's paying massive dividends.

It may shock you to know that before Steam, your options were to fuck off or offer your product in a store where you would only get 30% of the profit, with the rest going to the publisher, the retailer, licensing, etc. These days it's closer to 50% for physical copies, and Apple/Nintendo/Sony/etc all standardized with Steam on you getting 70% for digital.

Don't like it? Pull a Valve and make your own alternative that's better. If you build it, they will come... which is why nobody uses EGS.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

EGS has become free games store.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

EGS is like walking around a grocery store offering free samples and leaving without buying anything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sort of. Except all the shelves have weird lips on them to keep you from grabbing the product easily, you kinda have to wrangle each item. Also it's layout and design is archaic and super hard to navigate. And on every aisle there's these little 3 inch steps that you have to go up and down and constantly trip on, or your cart gets stuck on them and you have to lift it up or drop it down. And then if you do manage to buy things, their support is terrible; at the other store if you need help cooking they have a 24 hour recipe hotline to help you out, but this one promises the same, but you actually wind up on hold for hours half the times you call.

So they got tons of free samples, but all their products are kinda a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~Don't forget that each of their checkout lanes say "1 item or fewer"~~

Apparently they have a cart now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They actually have a cart now. Took them many years but they finally managed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don’t believe if you build it they will come anymore. People are fucking lazy and will put up with whatever the fuck is happening with Twitter for convenience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

They posted on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they say on the platform that exploded because Reddit decided to Spez.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I’m here, but none of my friends are here or on mastodon.