• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’m reading, Steam takes 30% cut, offer practically nothing but a download system, store front and crappy forum instances per game. Largely unchanged since 2012 Basically, they’re just taking the money and running, almost pure rent.

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      2 months ago

      Thor from Pirate Software has a great video breaking down how Steam works and the lawsuit that claims they are ripping off consumers. It’s very educational.

      Of course, there is no requirement to use Steam. Game makes can publish their game themselves without a platform at all, which very few do. If you say they actually need a platform, there is the value they are getting for that 30%. If they weren’t getting anything of value, then they could do it themselves and benefit instead, which most do not.

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          1 month ago

          Thor

          You certainly did call him out exactly as he is. An obvious industry shill “we can’t make non-live service games anymore because licensing boohoo”

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      2 months ago

      Who each will need a couple of consultants from McKinsey, PWC, you name it, to do their jobs!

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          2 months ago

          Ok… let’s walk through that together! This is my comment if your guesses were correct:

          “Who each will need a couple of consultants from a type of cheese, a firearms company, you name it, to do their jobs!”

          See how that a) doesn’t make any sense b) is not funny and c) is grammatically dubious at least?

          You could probably do better punch-up if you tried, right?