alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days agoCan anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossiblewww.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square298linkfedilinkarrow-up1697arrow-down16
arrow-up1691arrow-down1external-linkCan anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossiblewww.gamesradar.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square298linkfedilink
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoTheir assholery isn’t customer-facing, but it ABSOLUTELY impacts customers.
minus-squareSleeplessCityLights@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSo you are saying that the devs don’t like using the steam platform?
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThey don’t like the largest expense on their books being Steam’s cut of the sales. After overhead, marketing, locensing, etc the actual dev teams making the games probably make less than Gabe personally does on the same game.
minus-squaremad_lentil@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYeah they could be 10x cooler by just being slightly less greedy, but they want lots and lots of money, so
Their assholery isn’t customer-facing, but it ABSOLUTELY impacts customers.
So you are saying that the devs don’t like using the steam platform?
They don’t like the largest expense on their books being Steam’s cut of the sales. After overhead, marketing, locensing, etc the actual dev teams making the games probably make less than Gabe personally does on the same game.
Yeah they could be 10x cooler by just being slightly less greedy, but they want lots and lots of money, so