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WTF is this comments section here? I don't give a rat's fuck (if that is a thing), about what Tim Sweeney thinks about Valve, or if Valve is a good company or not.
Charging 30% of revenue for a digital store is clearly nit justifiable and Valve makes insane amount of profits just by having a near monopoly on PC game sales. They don't need that much and it's still just digital feudalism regardless if who does it.
You guys are just stuck in the good guy/ bad guy mentality and honestly, it's kind of embarrassing to get this defensive over a company.
Having a 21 year old Steam account and having bought quite some games makes it hard to stay subjective about this for me. I don't disagree with you but I see Valve as the best monopoly if I could choose. And I don't see Epic performing the same services while tryharding tremendously to be the monoply themselves by giving away free games.
agreed, i feel like Valve is using their monopolization for good then bad, look at Valve's competitors using their monopolization stance for bad.
and i feel like Valve has monopoly cause they do less mistakes then their competitors(compare Steam with like Epic Games and GOG)
am not defending valve here,am not saying Valve is a saint.
They aren't a monopoly, they are simply better than all their competitors in every feature that matters. They aren't anti-competitive, and Epic is free to try making a decent product instead of the pile of garbage they currently have.
ok i get the full picture now