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"I never told you to shut up you are good at putting words in peoples mouths I have noticed." I mean look back your comments.
Again, I'm talking about 30% is high, and you say it's not. Fine, then instead of looking into the details, you are trying to convincing me with what's competitors doing, which I don't care at all, with swears (not this time though).
I can't get what you meant at 4th paragraph.
"not charging the fees isn’t going to lower prices" No, Steam is heavily competitive market, which means lowering fees lowers price to compete. Even so, publishers and dev take excess sounds nice to me. Yes sir please develop more games. And... why I should care about exposures? I'm just a customer.
Ok I looked back at my comments and never did say that. Can you point out where I did?
And yes, 30% is what every competitor in that market that is making money charges which is why I say its strange and unwarranted that you only call Steam out for this. This is an industry standard.
And these publishers and developers can set the price to whatever they want. They could do 30% over the fees on just the steam store and less on other platforms like itch.io if they wanted to. They don't owe anything to steam and they don't have to use it, GOG, PlayStation or Xbox if they don't want to. They could host and do all the payment processing on their own shiny website. There's a reason they don't do that.
You care that they get charged an industry standard fee but font care about how much exposure their games get? You made an argument like you cared about games and their developers/publishers? Is that not the case? If you're "just a consumer" why do you care about the fee the game developers are being charged on (every, BTW) store front in the first place?
Ever notice how Epic charges half the fees any others do (and has lost $450million USD so far by doing that) and the price for the games is the same as on other platforms? You're misinformed if you think that they wouldn't do the same on Steam or Xbox or PlayStation if they lowered fees. There's your evidence right there.
Also, you're an adult right? You should probably stay off message boards and any publicly used websites with comments if swear words hurt you so much. No one is forcing you to be here or engage just like no one is forcing you to use steam or put games on there.
Also the fees you're talking about during checkout are taxes my dude. Jesus... Lol
So because it's an industry standard, my opinion is wrong (with lots of swears)? Not because it's actual details, but because standard? huh. Ok then, there is nothing to talk about here.
"Pub/Devs love lowering Steam fee" and "Steam has high exposure" are irrelevant.
I don't hate your opinion in single time (except swears), I just don't like your zealous mindset. Like what the hell is this a logic behind this: "... they don’t have to use it, GOG, PlayStation or Xbox if they don’t want to" We are talking about Steam's fee and saying like this means you're forcing to finish conversation.
"Also, you’re an adult right? You should probably stay off message boards and any publicly used websites with comments if swear words hurt you so much. No one is forcing you to be here or engage just like no one is forcing you to use steam or put games on there." Then I can report your swear comments ...right? Lemmy is quite different from the place like reddit you might not imagine. I suggest you to visit there if you like things what you've said.
Nope your opinion can be whatever you want it to be but why not hold the same opinion for the whole industry standard instead of one storefront that's a part of it? Why single one out and ignore the rest?
Again I notice you didn't say anything about how Epic charges less than half the fees any of the others do and yet the games are magically the same price as they are everywhere else. Is that not evidence that you're wrong with your statement that lowering the fee that everyone else that makes money uses isn't going to make the games cheaper? I mean bro the evidence is right there.
And yes you can report whatever you want I wouldn't expect anything less from someone who'd doesn't even understand how taxes on a storefront checkout work and who can't read something someone says without completely twisting it into something they didn't say like saying I said not to argue and saying I said to shut up which never happened.
You seem like the type of reactionary person that would do that when proved wrong. I'm not gonna cry about it. No where in any of my comments did I attack you, simply said your arguments are shit and they are.
You never proven me to wrong what are you talking. You failed to explain the detail of 30% and you run away to industry standard and Epic. Sure. Steam is the best option currently available, that's no doubt. It's better that if they lower 30% fee, that's I said. You'll answer industry standard and Epic with provocations. Which is reasonable in a way but not what I'm talking about.
End of conversation. I don't want to talk to you anymore, felt so exhausted.
you said that if they lowered their fee developers and publishers would make their games lower pricing. They dotn do that on epic which charges less than half of what steam charges. How is that wrong?