I’m neither simping for Gabe nor am I glazing anything I like. In fact, I often don’t like Steam, the client, at least. Why I say Gabe is because he (or his staff) commonly make consumer-friendly decisions for the platform. Check out a YT channel called Bellular News and search Steam. It’s full of good-news pieces of things Gabe or Steam have done in the last year alone. Compared to all of the bad-news pieces always being about pretty much every other company, hearing about Steam is a breath of fresh air.
Till it goes public or his son decides to shit all over it for profit.
This risks being true for any and every successful company and is a genuine concern, but this is why I only named Gabe in my comment. Being a private company and him as CEO, based on statements from him in the past, pro-consumer practices are his directive. What-aboutisms have nothing to do with it.
I don’t disagree with the 30% being too much. That said, Steam often provides more than just a sales pages for the fee, they always provide server access for multiplayer and cloud saving. That has to get covered somehow. I also believe in celebrating the good things going and there really aren’t many of those in the gaming market these days, certainly not in the AAA-money tier. I’m going to enjoy the wins we get. If you don’t want to do that, enjoy being miserable, I guess.
More entrenching of their services as a monopoly.
Without a doubt the cost of a sales page and servers would be less than 30% of a lot of games sales. It’s a cost they are willing to pay if it means keeping their walled garden and 30% flat rate. (Like Sony selling consoles at a loss)
Any open source Linux contributions from steam (proton) are welcome because it’s not tied into their monopoly and people can use them freely.
You can enjoy the small victories while also being aware of future outcomes from these corporate giants.
Funny thing about 30% is that lowering it would probably kill off competition completely so that if that is one of the few selling points of alternatives it evaporates. Sort of like how it is hard to compete with the economies of scale of AWS.
GOG for example is 30%. If Valve were to lower it might make it even tougher to convince publishers to release there, and GOG even with the 30% had a period where they struggled to generate a profit.
And Epic games has been unprofitable with their 12% rate, so if they lose even that selling point then it’ll continue to be an unprofitable venture if there’s less of a reason to release there and hurt their hopes of being able to grow their market share enough to be profitable some day.
They just sold games on the Windows platform to PC gamers. A platform called dead by companies like Epic for years. Windows never bothering to even consider pc gaming and fixating on consoles.
Not like anything unusual happened other than every other company thinking consoles were the future. Same things happening with Linux. All the other companies thinking Linux isn’t worth the effort and its all about Windows.
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He certainly deserves it. Between Ross and Gabe, we gamers actually stand a chance in this capitalist dystopia we call reality.
Gabe? As in the billionaire from steam Gabe?
Bewahahahahahstop simping a billionaire just because they made a thing you like.
He’s just as much on table one we eat the rich!!
Ross is the hero we truly needed.
I’m neither simping for Gabe nor am I glazing anything I like. In fact, I often don’t like Steam, the client, at least. Why I say Gabe is because he (or his staff) commonly make consumer-friendly decisions for the platform. Check out a YT channel called Bellular News and search Steam. It’s full of good-news pieces of things Gabe or Steam have done in the last year alone. Compared to all of the bad-news pieces always being about pretty much every other company, hearing about Steam is a breath of fresh air.
Till it goes public or his son decides to shit all over it for profit.
Credit to the people making the Linux software not the wealthy oligarch that happens to allow it.
This risks being true for any and every successful company and is a genuine concern, but this is why I only named Gabe in my comment. Being a private company and him as CEO, based on statements from him in the past, pro-consumer practices are his directive. What-aboutisms have nothing to do with it.
And yet he still charges 30% to list on steam…
He could move it all to a non profit like blender and charge creators a reasonable price if he cared about the industry or players.
He’s just as profit minded as any billionaire. He’s just using Linux contributions to solidify their monopoly on pc gaming.
I don’t disagree with the 30% being too much. That said, Steam often provides more than just a sales pages for the fee, they always provide server access for multiplayer and cloud saving. That has to get covered somehow. I also believe in celebrating the good things going and there really aren’t many of those in the gaming market these days, certainly not in the AAA-money tier. I’m going to enjoy the wins we get. If you don’t want to do that, enjoy being miserable, I guess.
More entrenching of their services as a monopoly. Without a doubt the cost of a sales page and servers would be less than 30% of a lot of games sales. It’s a cost they are willing to pay if it means keeping their walled garden and 30% flat rate. (Like Sony selling consoles at a loss)
Any open source Linux contributions from steam (proton) are welcome because it’s not tied into their monopoly and people can use them freely.
You can enjoy the small victories while also being aware of future outcomes from these corporate giants.
Funny thing about 30% is that lowering it would probably kill off competition completely so that if that is one of the few selling points of alternatives it evaporates. Sort of like how it is hard to compete with the economies of scale of AWS.
GOG for example is 30%. If Valve were to lower it might make it even tougher to convince publishers to release there, and GOG even with the 30% had a period where they struggled to generate a profit.
And Epic games has been unprofitable with their 12% rate, so if they lose even that selling point then it’ll continue to be an unprofitable venture if there’s less of a reason to release there and hurt their hopes of being able to grow their market share enough to be profitable some day.
Yeah their monopoly already has fucked the whole gaming industry to the point of there being virtual no competition.
That fucking toxic shit needs to burn with the rest of the corporate shitheads.
A previously stated, eat the rich won’t make any exceptions for any oligarch let alone one running a monopoly.
They just sold games on the Windows platform to PC gamers. A platform called dead by companies like Epic for years. Windows never bothering to even consider pc gaming and fixating on consoles.
Not like anything unusual happened other than every other company thinking consoles were the future. Same things happening with Linux. All the other companies thinking Linux isn’t worth the effort and its all about Windows.