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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

When you buy something at the store, did you know that in most cases the company selling probably saw less than half of what you paid? What if they don't have it in stock?

steam provides a ton of benefits at scale that would have probably eaten up more than 30% of the price for the game company, with the ability to instantly scale with no limitation if it picks up in popularity.

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  • [+] -16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I buy a single player game, more than likely, valve is making entirely profit on that 30%. The cost of the download is below a penny to valve. Yet they still get s third of that companies revenue.

    Charge them for the services if you want. They aren't doing thst, they are taking 30% of an industries revenue for doing nearly nothing.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And Valve has other bills to pay, servers to run, employees to pay. Software to develop, did you think all of these great features Steam has were free to develop? Incidentally, remember when Valve released their in house animation software for free when people asked to buy it?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You pay for the game once, whether you download it once or a million times. Valve gets the 30% once, because if you don't pay again, 30% of 0 is still 0. At least that's how percentages worked back in the day, who knows how it works now 🤣🤣

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