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Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
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Price parity is pro consumer. This is what consumer cares about. What they shouldn't care about is developers' revenue split because it doesn't affect them.
No one would be selling on Epic for a lower "discount-like" price, even if it would be allowed. This notion was never about "hey dev, get your users a cheaper price", it was always about "hey dev, get yourself more revenue if you choose our platform" (a lie too though since Epic is simply not a good selling platform). Else, you would have seen cheaper games amongst those Epic exclusives that never hit other stores.
Price parity is anti competitive, the fuck you're talking about???
When I buy something, I don't want to be stressed about whether or not it is available elsewhere cheaper. The only case where I think price parity is meaningless is worldwide, but that's only because regional pricing should be a thing, so that's a different matter.
So you're anti competition and anti consumer in a capitalist system.
I'm pro competition. However a lot of people are deceived into thinking Epic is a competitor to Valve. They do not deliver similar levels of value and service.
Price competition is silly in digital marketplace, where you know any product can go on sale randomly at a very high discount. Thinking "I'll buy it here now because it's 30% cheaper, cool" sounds like a recipe for selling your loyalty, for cheap. Though in reality it would never really be 30%, so you're aiming to sell yourself even cheaper.
That's some Mickey mouse logic is I've ever seen it