The amount of money Valve rakes in with Steam is insane. If itch had even 0.1% of that it would be much bigger. Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number compared to Steam is less than 0.01%. People who want DRM free games generally go to GOG, hell a lot of DRM free indie/AAA/retro games don’t even get listed on itch, so they get only the tiniest portion of the pie.
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Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh wow. Itch is also involved even though I would assume they have less than 1% of Steam’s gross revenues.
Gibibit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load.
That sounds rough. I follow a few devs/projects on Itch, but I don’t really use their discovery features.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s why they’re first going after such cases. In Hungary we named this tactic the “goose liver method”. Goose liver is often created by overfeeding geese, which is abuse. A lot of smaller political party, instead of regulating farming, decided to campaign on banning goose liver entirely, while bashing the food item as a “luxury only the rich can afford”.
vamo@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I guess they can’t push back like steam can, they’re much smaller. But if they could, would they?
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 day ago
Neither can Steam. Visa and Mastercard make up 90% of all online purchases outside China. If they cut off Steam then Steam is effectively dead.
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
Just add SEPA payments from Europe and I won’t touch Visa or MC ever again.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Steam didn’t push back at all though…
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Steam has no power. They are beholden to a very particular monopoly that can get away with anything it wants and is currently being manipulated by unethical evangelical fascists.