• hannes3120
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    -539 months ago

    Steam is just perfect at keeping the gamers behind them as they are only assholes behind doors to the Devs on their platform.

    30% is an absurd cut for a store that has such a monopoly that if you don’t release there your game is pretty much cancelled even if you release at your own store without DRM and with additional goodies (Looking at GOG and The Witcher - they released the Gwent standalone like a year later on steam because it didn’t sell at all on GOG and then it apparently outsold the GOG version without a week)

    People are just too lazy and Steam is keeping them happy enough to not bother looking another way.

    Epic isn’t a good guy in any case but the exclusive deals on AAA Games they do is probably the only way to get someone to buy the game there instead of Steam

    • topperharlie
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      359 months ago

      I know we happen to be a minority, but given how much valve has done for linux gaming, I’m happy to vote and support them with my wallet.

      For reference, before they started giving a good linux experience I didn’t buy games for more than 15 years, so is not like the game developers were going to get 100% of the money I’m paying for games now, the choice is to get 70% or nothing because I wouldn’t play their games. Not only that, if the proton compatibility layer fails, I’m very confident that steam’s refund policy has my back, again, without this policy I wouldn’t buy games.

      Remember, not everyone is you, and not everyone plays games the way you do.

      • @FooBarrington
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        149 months ago

        I recently moved my main desktop to Linux (everything else has been for a long time), and - aside from some problems with Wayland (due to NVidia) - everything has just worked. Every game I’ve played has been working flawlessly. They’ve been doing an amazing job with Proton.

      • @PlasticExistence
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        99 months ago

        This is me too. I’d moved away from PC gaming completely when I dropped Windows from my PCs back during the XP era. The Steam Deck has brought me back though. I really like the experience, and I get a kickass Linux handheld PC for a great price.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        I’ve stayed with Windows just because of that, but I can’t think of any games I regularly play that haven’t worked on my steam deck.

    • @[email protected]
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      309 months ago

      The epic games store user experience is awful. Exclusives are awful. I have zero reason to ever use it except for if I’d been taking advantage of the countless free games they’ve been giving away.

      Steam offers a service, hosting downloads and all the backend for friends/multiplayer connectivity/etc isn’t free. If you’re big enough to not need that(minecraft), good for you! Otherwise, it’s clearly difficult to make a launcher/game platform that doesn’t suck ass(uplay/origin/etc) - sorry that steam is just better than any alternative right now.

    • @[email protected]
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      299 months ago

      30% is the cut only if the sale happens on Steam itself. Devs can sell keys through other means and Valve gets 0%.

    • @[email protected]
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      249 months ago

      People are just too lazy and Steam is keeping them happy enough to not bother looking another way.

      You say that like we are making any kind of sacrifice by using steam. I used Epic and Xbox Gamepass or whatever on PC for like a year or two but stopped using either because the steam experience is just better and the exclusives weren’t worth changing.

    • warm
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      209 months ago

      I will buy from other storefronts if the deal is good, I have bought plenty from GOG. Epic are just anti-consumer and I refuse to support that store.

      Steam just offers peace of mind with refunds and the feature set they provide is next to none, I haven’t been given a reason to look elsewhere primarily.

    • @Zess
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      189 months ago

      30% is an absurd cut for a store that has such a monopoly that if you don’t release there your game is pretty much cancelled

      That’s exactly why they take 30%. Because having your game on Steam is a huge deal. Because Steam is very popular and lucrative. Because it’s well-made and useful. Little Timmy wants to skip to having a popular and lucrative platform without first doing the step of making it well-made and useful.

    • @bouh
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      169 months ago

      The exclusive on epic game store is a cancer that should not exist. And epic should remove their parody of launcher from existence because they somehow managed to make this a cancer too.

    • @rdri
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      69 months ago

      It seems you think some of that is valve’s fault.