• Harvey656@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    This is a conversation about steam, the platform not Gabe. Yes, he is a billionaire, yes that makes him shitty, but guess what? Steam is a fantastic service for the end user, and that’s what matters.

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      30 days ago

      If they charged less.fpr the platform, they’d still be raking in more than they can spend while also not taking an extra 20% out of game development budgets versus the competition.

      Bad companies can make good products.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        30 days ago

        I don’t know where you got lost with:

        As a consumer I’m more concerned about Epic’s anti-consumer practices than what they are paying devs.

        Talking about how much they could charge devs does not change my experience as a consumer. It does not provide a compelling argument for me to use a service that does noticeably make things worse for the consumer.