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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Says the guy that won't support Linux. Fuck the completely off.

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 16 points 23 hours ago

Suck me off, epic

[–] xtools@programming.dev 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tim Sweeney can gargle my ballsack

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[–] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Switch to Gog :)

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 67 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Steam is the last company that has held out against enshittification.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 day ago

That’s why they are getting sued.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago

It feels like all the other corpos are mad and want to sue Valve to force them into enshittification.

I'm all for holding companies accountable - when legal pressure forced Valve into creating a return policy, I was happy for that. But this is a $900 Million nothing burger imo. Publishers are mad they can't get the exposure and sales numbers on a cheaper platform. Cheaper platforms are mad that they still can't get people to switch to them by significantly under-cutting Steam. That's (publishers) customers mad they have to pay a 'premium' (basically the 'market rate' for the service before epic decided to start under-cutting btw) for a better service and the competition mad that a LOT of (publishers) customers are willing to pay that 'premium'.

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[–] stupor_fly@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they charge what they do because it works for everyone steam has more users and does more for them so it costs more to maintain everything which is fine for devs because people actually buy things on steam

the only time anyone ever talks about epic is to shit on them ,talk about the current free game there giving away and .... well thats it at least in my experience

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

All right at the same fucking thing just came up that Apple is going to start charging creators 30% on fees. So does that mean that that argument is the same as valve charging 30%?

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