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Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

jim3692@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Out of all the services that Valve offers, you decided to compare their checkout page?

Valve offers to devs, completely free of charge, full access to their matchmaking network, across any platform
Valve has vastly improved Windows games compatibility on Linux, by developing Proton. Epic locks users to Windows, because of their anti-cheat.
Valve revolutionized handheld gaming, by bringing desktop games to portable devices
Valve requires devs to show in the games’ store page whether it contains AI slop. Epic is a supporter of AI slop

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ulterno@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes, because the checkout page gets revenue ⇒ the bottom line.

The points you say are the things Valve is doing extra to provide value to the customer.
The point I am saying, is the first thing that anyone working for money needs to care about.

steampowered checkout page:

loads in a reasonable time

has the same colour theme as the rest of the website

Epic checkout page:

even the in-app checkout page is slower than the Steam web checkout page

is slow not only before loading but also after clicking the ‘place order’ button

White colour on dark theme website/app
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