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Whataboutism. The fact that someone is a POS doesn't justify you being one. But if you really want to compare, they all have major studios under their wing and thousands of employees (sub 300 for steam). Epic also only takes 12%, and GOG let's you actually own your games, DRM free (your steam library dies with you). I'm not defending any of these stores, just pointing out that steam isn't the good guy gamers think they are. They care about profit, that's it, yet any critisism is met with an army of gamers ready to give their life for capitalist selfish business.
That is not a whataboutism. The claim was "30% is a huge cut for a virtual storefront". The only way to qualify that comparison is to look at other virtual storefronts for games. If you have other cases of comparison to give apart from Sony, MS, and Nintendo, I'm open to look at them. Epic, so far, is a bit of a standout with its pricing.
Yeah let's ignore Epic, just because .
And let's also ignore the kid gambling epidemic created by Valve.
And let's ignore the fact that you don't own your steam games, but send death treath to Ubisoft if they say the same.
BTW, Sony, MS and Nintendo all suck, but at least they create jobs for devs.
Epic made it very clear from the start they were trying to undercut Steam, not by being better, but by paying out developers to create exclusive games for the Epic store, something extremely hated on PC. Even on Steam you can still sell your games elsewhere too.
Steam also controls the larger markets share of PC gaming. Of course they're going to have to price themselves competitively. Because why would you pay more for a platform that has way less users and a bad reputation?
You can actually just pay an almost 0% cut by delivering directly to your customers, but that's exactly why you use a storefront to sell your game. You go where the customers are, and they are at Steam.
Let's ask actual developers.
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You're link doesn't make any sens. It doesn't change anything, they all have massive studios with thousand of employees, while steam has sub 300 employees.
BTW I ACTUALLY worked with 3 studios in Montreal over the past 15 years. One had a quite successful game but they had to close anyway because they couldn't secure funding for the following project. Meanwhile steam made hundreds of thousand of the game.
But I get it, you dont care really about games and devs, you care about convenience. Expect a major enshitification of games because IA shit will soon be the only way to make this industry profitable.