They charge 30% because they have a soft monopoly, it's basically robbery and it is affecting the indie scene and the quality and amount of games we receive.

Gaben has 6 mega yatchs and a number of submarines. The yatchs alone are worth around 1 billion and cost an estimated 75 to 100 million per year just to maintain.

This is from my first post, I've repeated myself 4 times now (over two threads because you have answered mutiple different comments). I won't be answering anymore of your comments, all you are spitting in my face is childish rhetoric.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Oh look, another boring block of text so you can avoid replying to the commentor who proved you're either dumb or just lying.

We get it, your point can be dumbed down to a mouth-breathing "capitalism bad".

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And, to be clear, Capitalism is bad. I'm on board. But riding Gaben's dick, or the dick of any boring dystopian billionaire instead of the people actively fighting to maintain the system is just grossly missing the point

Not all evils are equal, and any perceived slight by Steam is honestly smoke for the thousands of disgustingly rich venture capitalists constantly abusing the system that exists and lobbying the shit out of any attempt to fix it. I don't blame Gaben for owning more yacht's than anyone needs, because, at the end of the day, he's providing a quality service through an unfair system. He's not the one fighting to provide shittier and shittier systems, demanding fatter and fatter paychecks and encouraging us to blame each other for the state of the world while he runs off with the largest slice of the cake.

Should he have the wealth he has access to? Fuck no. But, again, the dishonest and disgustingly simplified argument that homie is making is only idiofying the cause. Target the problems, not the lucky guys who are providing halfway reasonable services through our broken-ass system.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well said.

It's not that what he's saying is out-and-out wrong -- it's just not useful or interesting in the context of the discussion.

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