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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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[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

The only two storefronts that don't charge 30% base cut are EGS and Microsoft Store.

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 week ago

And egs operates at a loss to capture market share while MS wants both vendor lock in and to sell the user data.

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