this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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Unless the consumer has principles and wants to give more money to the people that are the most like them, i.e. the devs, instead of giving it to a billionaire.
In my case Valve definitely deserves a cut, as I'm only buying the game because steam makes it really easy to play it on linux.
Their work on drivers and proton is what makes me buy the games, because if I have to tinker just to play on my preferred OS, I'll tinker with pirated versions instead.
They could afford to do all of that and take a smaller cut if Gaben didn't collect yachts.
That's true, and I completely despise both billionaires and yachts, but still I'll only buy games through stores that tread my preferred OS as a first party, and currently only steam does that.