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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are a monopoly because they.....provide the best most fair platform. Also why would linux users support ubisoft or epic.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most fair? πŸ€” Epic's cut on the sale is lower than Valve's...

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And yet they charge the same amount...

Seems they use that as a way to get developers to join them, then guilt consumers into using their less useful platform.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironically this is actually an example of Valve using its dominant marketshare to suppress rivals - Steam's ToS require devs to have equivalent pricing across all storefronts if they want to sell on Steam at all, so making it harder for cheaper storefront cuts to translate to lower prices to consumers, who might otherwise move to a different storefront.

Devs aren't going to drop Steam as a store, so they're stuck.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have a source for that claim that doesn’t reference the sale of Steam keys specifically?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

The reason it's the same price on Steam and Epic is that Steam prevents the sale on their platform if the game is sold for cheaper on other platforms...

I would also gladly increase the developer's profit instead of the platform's profit if the price is the same on both as I don't use all the extra crap that Steam comes with...