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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I’m not saying the 30% fee is fair, but every single company charges 30% except Epic and the Microsoft PC store which north charge 12%.

https://www.1d3.com/blog/platform-fees

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 50 minutes ago

And both of those are terrible

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 hours ago

I am pretty sure they only do in attempt to attract devs. Once Epic were to get a majority position in the market they would quickly raise it to 30% too. None of these companies are “good guys” or actually care about the end consumer.