Sure, because they don’t have any budget themselves…

Maybe NASA would have bothered if its funding hadn’t been cut again and again and again…

Eh… I was just showing that you don’t actually own your games as access to them can be taken from you, that’s all.

As to why I dont mind the fee as a consumer; valve invests its earnings into linux gaming and does cool shit like that.

You’re also talking like they wouldn’t have as many customers if they reduced their cut which is completely ridiculous. More profit would go to the people actually doing the work or prices would go down.

Stop defending the billionaire, you’re making a fool of yourself.

There’s a difference between dealing with it and defending it, you’re doing the latter by saying 30% is ok because reasons.

So they’re not DRM free then if you need Steam to download them. You also need to be connected to the internet at least once to confirm ownership, so even if you download it once and think that you can now just transfer the game from one PC to another without an internet connection or without Steam, you can’t.

DRM free and actual ownership means physical. The closest you’ll get to that with digital games is through GOG or Itch.io or anything similar where you can download the actual install files and you don’t need any launcher at all.

They can still delete your account and cut you off from your games.

Again, they can afford their R&D while paying their employees more than the industry average and while making the owner a multibillionaire, they 100% could afford to lower their cut without any negative impact on everyone but Gabe Newell.

The lower % starts if a game sells enough copies to make 10m$, Valve has made 3m$ at that point.

Stop defending the people that make you poorer, they’re not your friends, all billionaires exist at the expense of our wealth. All. Of. Them. Are. Evil.

“Ubisoft take note”

Ubisoft is nothing compared to Valve… You don’t own anything you purchase on Steam and it’s the biggest store by a huge margin, don’t know why Ubisoft is mentioned specifically…

I’ve had this conversation so many times and some people just can’t imagine that they might be paying more than they need to just so Gabe can collect yachts… People feel they’re getting their money’s worth because everything they’ve ever bought is priced based on the fact that there’s multimillionaires and billionaires higher up the chain…

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

Preach brother, fuck all billionaires!

You could create the best launcher in the world and people would ignore it because they don’t want multiple launchers and their library is already centralized on Steam.

A big part is going to buying yachts as well so Valve and Newell could 100% afford to charge a lot less than 30% and still do just as much r&d

To the downvoters: I hurt your feelings by saying that multibillionaire bad? :( Their money comes from your pockets, wake the fuck up.

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

Did it once back in the day, I just asked the teacher if it was ok to send everything at once, but that was in paper form though so they just sent everything in a package

Toys r Us is still going strong in Canada

Oh so tracking cookies should be the same, find the settings menu to opt out since the majority of the population just clicks to accept everything.

I mean that it’s desertifying because of the deforestation, even if it stopped the forest wouldn’t regenerate

The Amazon is doing the opposite and depends on dust from the Sahara being carried by air currents across the ocean so… It’s not good.

8x5 + 4x3

Checkmate!