Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
Grimy@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoSteam makes a shit load of money. The server fees are basically a joke and they have 80 employees in the steam division.
The only things that is being invested in is Gabens fleet of mega yatchs, worth an estimated 1 billion, and costing between 75 and 100 million annually to maintain.
Valve has been fined in the EU for anti-consumer practices and received an F from the better business bureau. They are currently in the middle of an other lawsuit.
30% is way too high and it’s a joke to see actual consumers defend it.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This is likely 100% misinformation. Only EU lawsuit i found was clone about geo blocking games. Which is a game developer/publisher decision not valves.
From there we can extrapolate the rest of their comment is nonsense.
Grimy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Geo blocking is anti-consumer. It was a 16 million euro fine if I remember well.
BBB giving them an F (granted, this one is old) : kotaku.com/valve-is-not-psyched-they-got-an-f-in-…
Billion dollar yatch fleet and maintenance : luxurylaunches.com/…/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.ph…
80 employees (only came out because of an other lawsuit against them) : lavegagames.com/steam-is-run-by-fewer-than-80-sta…
Gaben isn’t your friend and probably mocks you during his high seas coke parties.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
oh no, a person at the head of a company that has created a great environment has profited from it! the horror.
Gabe’s wealth isnt a problem. if you dislike his yach the problem is in the taxation system of the country not the individuals wealth.
BBB hasnt been relavant for decades its a dead ratings system that was bought out years ago by corpo interests. citing them is like citing donald trump on medical treatments for covid.
oh no! 80 employees? the horror. thats literally what software is about. its economics of scale are insane. you dont need more than a couple dozen people if they’re competent.
finally: geoblocking is a feature developers enable. they don’t have to. steam doesnt force them to. if you dont like it don’t by those games. I promise you there are plenty of games you can buy that dont have it.
really if this is all you have as complaints thats pretty small time. compared to google/apple/microsoft/EA/nabisco mistreatment of their employees, funding of fascist politicians, etc. quite frankly I have bigger concerns than gabe being wealthy.
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now do Musk and Bezos!!
All billionaire wealth is stolen wealth. All billionaires are bad. If you stopped bootlicking for a second, you would realize defending Gaben is defending the system. The fact that he can legally exploit it to steal from consumers and developers doesn’t absolve him from doing it.