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It is a kind of a bad thing from the perspective of monopolistic practices. As a game developer I'm hoping for a better deal than a 30% cut, but then I see the
by oreally 4y ago
It is a kind of a bad thing from the perspective of monopolistic practices. As a game developer I'm hoping for a better deal than a 30% cut, but then I see the other stores and there's not much viable choices. Also if steam decides to cut out my genre like it does through algorithms changes, etc, I'm hosed.
Such is the price of a winner take all industry. My hopium is that it changes in the future so that the customers win, and the small guys win before the big platform does.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoi get it. 30% is not good, that is daylight robbery and i am against that in principle but they aren't like the rest. apple/google all do the same and they are nowhere customer focussed as steam. steam is the ultimate monopolistic goodguy and unless they do something stupidly bad, they are there. Sure, if apple/google switch to 5%, steam will have to follow suit but for now, with steam deck for example, they are actually using those profits to help the dev community reach more customers. Its not the best position but its way better than what apple/google does imo