and steam needs data centers and servers and power and all the stuff to keep those running. ultimately though it didn’t matter. if steam thinks that their ecosystem is worth charging that much, then it’s up to the dev to decide if what steam provides is worth it to them
WraithGear
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you could try answering, but conceding works just as well
and why would gamers not buy their game elsewhere?
sounds like YOU don’t know what a monopoly is
if it’s not justifiable, then the game devs can go elsewere.
that seems like an issue that the makers of games can decide. they are not under any gun to choose steam. if the devs don’t see value in steam then they can go elsewhere. for me as a buyer it’s steam, or it’s the developers own website. i will not buy from another store front
in this case what is questionable for the goose is much preferable for the gander
by the time someone tells you directly they are annoyed by something you have done, it’s gone past the “ i don’t like it but i’m going to just deal with it” stage.
i did look into it more, and my statement is over generalizing (aka wrong).
biden had paused a single shipment of bombs, trump released it. But notable is that biden did not stop the sale.
trump removed the cap on how much arms could be sold, and that is a direct escalation, vs biden metered expansion of sales
there was the dismantling of UNRWA, which biden just started the process of doing
and the sale of bulldozers for the purpose of destroying the homes of palestinians to create an illegal pro israel “security zone”.
so you are right, while the biden admin were working to do these things, trump seems to be speed running their end game which is directly worse.
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market dominance is not a monopoly. market dominance is a label given to the most successful product. and the product is successful because they offer a service that none else seems to be able to or wish to fulfill.
devs can choose to sell their game on steam, or windows live, or gog, epic game store, playstation, nintendo online, android app store, ios app store, on their own site, eb games, or the back of their car, what ever.
are all of these equally effective? nope. when you put your game on steam you get, the vast user base cultivated by valve, server space to host your game, massive server upload speeds, a built in store front, the discussion boards, steam game cloud, the stream overlays and stream input, steam workshop, community hubs, steam achievements, global money processing, themed sales, two special discovery windows. blah blah blah.
again, it’s up to the dev to decide if they want to pay 30% for these things.
to put it in perspective, when epic game store has a sale, steam makes a profit.