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Tim Sweeney: "Besides taking 30%, they’re [Valve] also taking a potentially even larger fraction of developers’ revenue and livelihood by undermining their business with these AI hate campaigns." (archive.ph)

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[–] myyass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is that the case? I didn't really ask much about it since it becomes a heated discussion.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 21 points 1 week ago

YES

Also your friends should figure out how much it costs to host and distribute themselves with infinite scaling in case their game catches on.

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[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Only restriction I know for this scheme is you can't sell the keys outside steam for less than you sell on Steam. Otherwise you can just undercut them while still using their services

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[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

But easy to get around by discounting it for less than the listed price. Isthereanydeals and gg.deals is a great source for historical price trends across multiple storefronts from official to approved key selling stores.

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