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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" (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If Larian has no problem, why do you?

Also https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/in-response-to-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-waging-war-on-steam-larians-publishing-lead-says-giving-everyone-everything-for-free-might-bump-numbers-but-doesnt-create-a-viable-storefront/

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

So you're not going to answer the question?

You're just going to link to an unrelated article?

Literally all that says is that the Larian Publishing Lead doesn't like Epic buying exclusive game rights. It says literally nothing about their thoughts on Steam's 30% of revenue fee.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Like seriously what do you care? Why does it matter to you how much cut Steam or Epic take?

Personally I just don't give a shit. I am supporting Linux gaming development, that's all I care about.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Because it's enriching millionaires and billionaires for not doing shit, at the expense of gamers who are overpaying, and/or game developers who are losing out on revenue they can use to pay the people actually making games.

Every single indie dev who spent 5 years of their life crafting a game, suddenly has to give 30% of all of their revenue to Valve for maintaining a largely automated storefront. That's fucked.

And it extra pisses me off because gamers act like billionaire-Gabe is a saint, and billionaire-Sweeney is the devil, when Gabe has ripped everyone off for decades, and Tim Sweeney just paid developers for exclusive game rights to try and launch a competitor store. Like omg so evil of them to offer to pay for development of a game in a situation where the developer has zero obligation or pressure to take the deal. What monsters.

Tim Sweeney has also risked a significant chunk of Epic's Fortnite fortune on lawsuits that have fundamentally changed and broken the app store monopolies, and he's spent much of his personal fortune on buying up land for nature conservation.

The idea that Gabe and Valve are saints and Tim and Epic are the devil is fucking dumb.