imetators comments on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Steam provides much more than just a store. Having to print, burn, deliver and sell physical CDs is not cheap. Nor is the service Steam provides that physical discs wont. Also, did you pass over the fact that PS, Xbox, Nintendo, Apple and Google also have charged 30% for their online stores?

Anyone can go get free games at Epic and be happy they save 100% cash on their games. and that is why Epic's user base grew 173% withing last 6 years but with 1.6% revenue growth. If this doesn't make you realize that we pay for a good service, then nothing will.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

PlayStation and Xbox subsidize the cost of the console.

Apple and Google have been having their 30% fees (and the monopolies that allow them) struck down by courts and competition regulators around the world.

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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

PlayStation and Xbox subsidize the cost of the console.

Valve is subsidizing their services that they provide to gamers.

Apple and Google have been having their 30% fees (and the monopolies that allow them) struck down by courts and competition regulators around the world.

They have 15% since 2020 or so. As far as I understood, Apple got sued, then changed the cut% and Google followed shortly after to avoid getting sued. Once app earns more than $1 million, it gets 30% cut again.

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