Stir some shit, hope to get valve in legal issues so that they're legally forced to become less competitive and therefore creating a chance for these other platforms?

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Of course it is.

All those large online action/claim sites are commercial in underlying nature. When you saw all the small farmers protest in Germany it was primarily driven as an action by about 5 large farming conglomerates because they are the ones getting ~85% of the grant money that was being cut. The whole point of the cut was to not funnel money that was supposed to go to small farmers to large megacorps after all. Who in turn instrumentalized the small farmers to protest it.

Probably what's going on here, too. You can bet somewhere deep deep down, this is something Tim Sweeney cooked up.

[–] BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org 7 points 6 months ago

Of course it is. There is a similar case in the US right now, or was, by the dude behind the fighting rabbits game and parts of the humble bundle that was being bankrolled in his lawsuit by epic games.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 6 months ago

This of course. Any reduction in fee would not go the people. Studios would raise their prices.