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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Their assholery isn't customer-facing, but it ABSOLUTELY impacts customers.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you are saying that the devs don't like using the steam platform?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah they could be 10x cooler by just being slightly less greedy, but they want lots and lots of money, so