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30% is too much! Clearly Steam doesn't need that much to operate (the percentage of each sale that go to Valve)
What's with this obsession over Valve making profit? Should they never expand or develop new things? BTW tell your boss I want Unreal back
Oh I didn't realize they were developing $500M yachts donations...
That's Gabes money, not Valve's and you know it
I don't know what that's supposed to mean. Gabe owns Valve. It's the same money.
The point is a very small percentage of that 30% is being reinvested in the company and the vast majority is going into Gabe's pocket.
Brother, go back and read the OP. You cannot claim that 30% is fair while the man camps on an Armada of yachts worth over a billion dollars. This is not a distraction, this is the problem. There's just no way that makes any sense.
LEt me be clear: It absolutely does. I can't think of a better indicator.
It's not separate at all. It's very simple: if it was a good value, he wouldn't have all of that money. The fact that he's absurdly wealthy is a direct indicator that it's a poor value.
I'd rather see the developers of the game profit before the storefront
Yes and before Steam the Publisher kept 60%, 30% is fine
That's like arguing the guy who beats his wife isn't so bad because he used to cut on her too, but stopped. It should be 10% max for a store. And publishers all take too big a cut as well
What math are you basing 10% off of? Because that's grossly undervalues the service Valve provides between a store, community hub, unintrusive optional DRM, modding platform and more
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Yeah, I want such giants (that are basically core infrastructure of a sector) to be regulated.
Just whip up a law saying their margins can't be over 5% of a game's sale price (the reason is to boost smal devs & market competition). Worst case 10 ppl don't get richer.
(It's a bit like capping the price of a medicine, but for cultural reasons instead of healthcare reasons.)
What, are they gonna quit the business bcs making only 100 million a year in net profit just isn't worth it & would rather go do manual labour in the mines instead?
(Same logic as with taxes - if there was a 90% tax over 10 million ppl would still do the same things they do anyway, we were just taught to believe that someone earning 1bn per year would say 'no, it's not worth it for those 100m after taxes, I quit and now you can't buy my good overpriced phones anymore so you lose'. It would never happen. The only difference would be in their wealth concentration, ie in their power over government/lobbies/public media.)