Comment on Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly

Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This and the paid exclusives mean I haven’t, and won’t use EGS out of pure spite.

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  • phx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve picked up a ton of their free games. I’ve yet to actually install their client and actually play one

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I could always get one of those games off the high seas and pay the same amount. I’m not going to give Epic the engagement numbers to get investors with.

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      • YeastInspection@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I believe these Indy devs get paid when you boot a game you got for free, so I’m happy to install stuff and boot it once just to support gaming in general

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    • zeekzag@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just install a FOSS alternative to their launcher like Heroic

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe it used to be illegal to sell things at less than cost because the original monopolists did this too. Why did we make that legal again?

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  • neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It isn’t (at least over here) but the “cost” for a game is really iffy to define because if you want to be pedantic the distribution cost for a digital game are cents and that only if you actually factor in infrastructure costs. So technically they can just price them however they want because technically a single game download has 0 cost.

    Technically because we all know that the production costs have to be regained somehow, just that with enough lawyer bs you can ignore that as a product cost on paper (for example if you label the entire production a learning experience or smth)

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