Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Valve has ripped off every single game purchase to the tune of billions and billions of dollars (taking an objective 15% more than they need to from the total cost of every single game), for the past 20 years.

  But let’s thank them for that! Thanks Valve for making every single working class gamer poorer. We all love the fact that every single Valve employee is a multimillionaire, at the expense of literally every single game maker and developer. What kind generosity! /S

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At the expense of literally every single game player

    How is it at the expense of the game player? Even if they paid less, the publisher and developers aren’t going to pass the savings on to the consumer. That’s wishful thinking in the same vain as hoping Starbucks would make their drinks cheaper because their rent went down.

    If anything, one can argue that the 30% fee shelled out by the publisher pays for the various nice-to-haves that players get on Steam, like: a functional review system, free cloud save syncing, the workshop, game discussion forum, game streaming, Steam input (which is a godsend for accessibility), etc.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How is it at the expense of the game player? Even if they paid less, the publisher and developers aren’t going to pass the savings on to the consumer. That’s wishful thinking in the same vain as hoping Starbucks would make their drinks cheaper because their rent went down.

      This is the most dumbass asinine defense. So now you’re pro landlord rent gouging?

      Jesus fucking Christ how are people upvoting this flat out landlord simping crap.

      It does not fucking matter if Ubisoft remains greedy. Every single independent self publishing dev gets 15% more money.

      The fucking fact that you brought up landlords rent seeking as a non issue is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Steam has what nobody else does and the only thing I pay for are games that are mostly on sale or from a keys site. It seems you have an extremely biased view, it seems om average Valve employees make about 107k or something close to that. They’re certainly far from a terrible company like Nestle.

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• index@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You don’t seem to have idea of how much a billion is and how much money is valve making. Enjoy your icecream while it’s cold because you can’t afford too much of it.

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