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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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- masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Try clicking past the firstcreudlt next time you “research” something to prove ho unbiased you are:
  
  upptic.com/valve-structure-employment-numbers-rev…
  
  Also, stop dick riding corporations.
  
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  - Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Revenue per employee is not that employee’s salary. Pick your jaw up from your keyboard the next time you are insulting me.
    
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    masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Wolfire estimated that Valve had roughly 360 employees (a number likely sourced from Valve itself in 2016) and that per-employee profit was around $15 million per year.
    
    Even if that $15 million number isn’t exactly right, Valve, in its public employee handbook, says that “our profitability per employee is higher than that of Google or Amazon or Microsoft.” A document from the Wolfire lawsuit revealed Valve employees discussing just how much higher — though the specific number for Valve employees is redacted.
    
    theverge.com/…/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-p…
    
    If you don’t want to be insulted than don’t blindly dick ride a corporation.
    
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