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Ultimately, yes, everything they do is entirely for their own benefit. But, they’re also free to focus on their long-term growth and returns. As long as the leadership doesn’t get changed to a bunch of shit-for-brains golden parachute MBAs, they’re going to want to keep their customers happy. It’s good for them, and it’s not terrible for us. Everybody wins

No, they don’t. Literally every single gamer across the world pays 15% more on every single game purchase, for literally no reason except to make the 1% at Valve even richer.

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pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

No, they don’t. Literally every single gamer across the world pays 15% more on every single game purchase, for literally no reason except to make the 1% at Valve even richer.

Do you seriously believe that if a developer pays 15% less in platform fees to Valve, that savings will be passed on to us? Epic Games tried that. Guess what: games still cost us the same there as every other platform.

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- masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It literally either goes back to the consumer or back to the game developer.
  
  Why are you defending it going to Valve for no reason?
  
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  - pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Or, more likely, the publisher. But, that’s beside the point.
    
    The average Joe Gamer doesn’t benefit from the developer paying less in sales fees.
    
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    masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    As it has been demonstrated when Epic tried the “developers pay less fees here” approach, the average Joe Gamer doesn’t benefit in any way whatsoever. Your premise of the savings being passed down doesn’t exactly pan out.
    
    Oh really? Please do point me to the study you did where you gave 15% more revenue back to developers and then assessed their output quality.
    
    Claiming that having the store take 15% less cut of revenue will have no effect is a quite frankly flat out absurd claim to make.
    
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