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and your point? its still a better policy than both GOG and EA origins provided. and the regulators where in a country steam likely gave 0 thoughts about. and then applied the change everywhere for everyone.

this is literally a non-issue now. so anything more recent than 2013 that any reasonable person would give a shit about?

context for everyone else:

• origins as the underdog identifies a weak point in steam's userbase loyalty and tries to leverage it.
• an australian government agency notifies steam they're in violation and legal action would follow if steam doesn't comply with australian return regulations.
• steam says 'my b.' and updates their policy everywhere instead of implementing a region based policy.
• the update undercuts EA and improves the situation for all their users.

or anything relevant to any of the points I made or you just going to keep tossing out decade old information as if its relevant.

but no, steam has maintained its 30% cut since its inception do you know the rate publishers like EA demand? 50%. EA is just pissed valve is a better and more reasonable publisher than they are.

so long as EA and other publishers exist and are taking a bigger cut than valve. I'm happy to give valve a pass atm at the better option.

the issue at hand atm is gamers won't tolerate price increases and inflation has cut into the original profit margin. and so publishers are running around screaming about valve's 30% cut when they demand a larger cut.

some day you twits will figure your shit out and stop electing trash like harris and biden. until then shrug. reminder: the democrats just let critical portions of the clean air act reversed via legislation without so much as a single fillibuster. seriously you twits need to stop defending and electing these pieces of trash.

and no one is sabotaging you but you.

Valve hasnt increased their %age since steams inception. you can argue its too high. but its certainly not a squeeze which requires an unnecessary and increasing rate that is detrimental to the developers.

its hilarious how well the publishers propaganda arm has influenced you to your own detriment. do you know much EA and other publishers demand as their cut? 50%. valve as a publisher is actually a fucking discount.

you're upset people are supporting a cause you support. got it. fuck you're a moron.

anyways; yes, trump taking power was a bad thing for them. just as harris and biden were empirically a bad thing for them.

Ms. 'I wouldn't do a thing different' would have continued enabling the genocide just as trump has. objectively neither candidate mattered on the issue.

The reason moron harris courted republican's is because she didnt have a damn policy supported by the left wing electorate. in fact her entire campaign was designed precisely to piss us off.

Are you happy with how that worked out? no? oh. well maybe you shouldn't support fucking corporate genocidal enabling candidates. now kindly fuck off and enjoy your state mandated fascism. you morons certainly earned it.

you're so uninformed its hilarious. PS5 is a single hardware platform that almost certainly (if they continue as they historically have) on top of free bsd. their software stack is almost certainly an open source base with some small additions for developer friendliness on top. its small time compared to what steam does: multiple OS support with massive and varied hardware support.

Nor does sony contribute much back to the open source ecosystems they leech off of. meanwhile steam has been funding linux gaming improvements for over a decade now and are a huge reason that its as amazing as it is today.

the idea that sony spending a higher $ value vs steam is probably the most retarded thing i've heard all day. the $ value isnt what matters. its the impact/$. and steam leaves sony in the dust on this. again linux gaming wouldn't be anywhere near where it is without steam. meanwhile sony barely contributes anything.

Valve literally has funded the compatibility layer to bring DX games to linux. point to a single thing sony has done that's comparable.

Never mind all the benefits valve has ensure for gamers. a strong return policy. ongoing predictable sales. easy of use and cross platform support.

Never mind all the tooling they provide to developers of games.

Valve has very much earned the loyalty from gamers it has and i have no problem with them profitting off that fact. long as they keep up the good work we'll keep using and supporting their platform.

oh no, a person at the head of a company that has created a great environment has profited from it! the horror.

Gabe's wealth isnt a problem. if you dislike his yach the problem is in the taxation system of the country not the individuals wealth.

BBB hasnt been relavant for decades its a dead ratings system that was bought out years ago by corpo interests. citing them is like citing donald trump on medical treatments for covid.

oh no! 80 employees? the horror. thats literally what software is about. its economics of scale are insane. you dont need more than a couple dozen people if they're competent.

finally: geoblocking is a feature developers enable. they don't have to. steam doesnt force them to. if you dont like it don't by those games. I promise you there are plenty of games you can buy that dont have it.

really if this is all you have as complaints thats pretty small time. compared to google/apple/microsoft/EA/nabisco mistreatment of their employees, funding of fascist politicians, etc. quite frankly I have bigger concerns than gabe being wealthy.

in this case you can.

even if they do become pro-consumer you shouldn't spend there. because it'd be a temporary affair and soon as they win market share from steam it'll disappear.

This is likely 100% misinformation. Only EU lawsuit i found was about geo blocking games. Which is a game developer/publisher decision not valves.

From there we can extrapolate the rest of their comment is nonsense.

What valve produces is a user friendly platform. That's their value proposition and its worth many times its weight in gold

Thats worth 30% of the sale to me as a user. And is something epic and other publishers are completely unable to replicate. (I.e. no one in their right mind would ever trust epic to maintain such a position)

Na you're just incredibly dense and slow. The people of gaza died in September, you're just catching up to this fact now and thinking you're somehow insightful.

So in a month when they start digging the graves and you think you have some undeniable evidence that you were somehow correct in choosing genocidal asshole A over genocidal asshole B dont waste your breath you'll be as moronic then as you are now.

Harris ran the most idiotic and fucking misguided campaign i have ever seen and now we're all paying for it and you blindly keep supporting her run after she literally had the worst results in modern history.

Itd be funny if it wasn't so sad. Now we're entering the the terrorism stage of a collapsing democracy. Enjoy.