PROOF: VALVE IS RIPPING EVERY PC GAMER OFF
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  • HessiaNerd@lemmy.world
    9·
    17 hours ago

    The anticompetitive practice is, sell for the same price here or we won’t sell your game? They don’t want to be undercut, can’t blame them for that.

    If they forced exclusivity deals, sure that is anti competitive. If they dictated prices, that would be anticompetitive. If they forced users to buy bundles to get certain games, if they forced a subscription to access games, if they gobbled up every other game seller and closed them down…

    We have seen a lot of bullshit in corpo land. I’m not saying valve is perfect, or I love and trust them, but this is pretty weak in terms of objections. I’d rather deal with valve than Microsoft. Then again I was saying that about Google 15 years ago, now a lot less so.

  • Marighost@lemm.ee
    42·
    15 hours ago

    Every time I see this opinion being shared I just imagine a tiny, angry Tim Sweeney throwing a tantrum because Valve bad. Why? Because… Because I said so, okay?!

    • 101@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      132·
      1 day ago

      I just want to say that I support your right to be wrong, no matter how much evidence is proving you wrong.

      • shani66@ani.social
        31·
        16 hours ago

        Funny how you ignore all the comments calling out your crap in depth, i suppose you know you’ve got a load of nothing here.

  • eacapesamsara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    273·
    1 day ago

    Valve provides unlimited bandwidth for the rest of eternity for your game in exchange for a refundable $100 deposit and 30% of sales, with exceedingly few rules regarding what you put on the store, all without ads, optional additional FREE revenue streams in trading cards and marketplace items, and free unlimited bandwidth for mods via workshop integration; not to mention free Multiplayer matchmaking and unlimited free steam keys you can give out or even sell on secondary markets with very few restrictions. Neither itch nor gamejolt can financially offer half of those features, and no other publishing platforms comes close to offering all of these features, much less all of these features at such a ridiculously low cut as valve takes.

    • Senshi@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 minutes ago

      Just a minor correction: the 100$ one time deposit cannot be reclaimed manually. Instead, it gets automatically returned once your game hits 1000$ in sales.

      https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/appfee

      The purpose of this fee is to block low effort automated scam games from misusing the shop.

      Many successful indie devs have voiced that the 30% is actually impossible to beat for them if they tried other distribution approaches. Some even closed down their existing alternatives including self hosted shops which would grant them 100%, simply because the overhead costs ruin the percentage for them, plus a whole lot of time and effort that have to go into maintaining that.

      Yes, steam has a very strong monopoly position on the games distribution market. That is problematic for all the usual reasons with monopolies. What makes steam unique is that the company behind it, Valve, has demonstrated in all their efforts that maximizing short term profits is not necessarily their prime directive. This can obviously change at any time, so being wary is always good, but convenience is simply extremely attractive to everyone involved, devs and customers alike.