Valve's Steam platform smashes records again, hitting a new all-time peak of over 43.5 million concurrent players and 14.4 million in-game users.
  • NekoBeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    Valve just offers such a good service with Steam.

    I first check Steam before buying a game anywhere else.

    GOG is a close runner-up though.

    • One2many@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 hours

      Same, then I load the game I bought on GOG in steam for convenience.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2 days

    You’d think they could afford to knock that 30% cut down a little by now.

    • BlackAura@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      They already do. I forget the numbers but once you’ve sold X copies it drops maybe to 20%? Then once you’ve sold Y copies (where Y > X) it drops even further, say like 10%?

    • bigbangdangler@reddthat.comEnglish
      10 hours

      I legitimately don’t understand this argument.

      Can you elaborate why Steam is singled out for this? Something beyond “Steam bad”?

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3 hours

        Because Steam is the company under discussion here. I don’t think Steam is bad.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9 hours

        Pretty sure both apple and google have been targetted for this as well, in court cases brought by epic iirc.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      17 hours

      That’s not how capitalism works. If anything, they should be increasing their prices because they have a stranglehold on the market.

    • arudesalad@piefed.caEnglish
      14 hours

      He bought the yacht company, what’s next? The sea? At least his money isn’t as dirty as most tech ceo’s money is (although it isn’t completely clean)