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"

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How many people did it take to make Baldur’s Gate?

  Do you think it took Valve 30% of that number to maintain steam during that time?

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  • nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a completely irrelevant number.

    I have no idea how many devs worked on BG3 and that number has 0 impact on my enjoyment of the game. Given the number of hours I spent playing BG3, the price made it one of the cheapest forms of entertainment available.

    And, as a developer, I really don’t care how much companies pay to marketing vendors. Developer pay is generally negotiated when you’re hired. I haven’t worked in B2C but, as I understand it, they usually pay bonuses on sales volume rather than profits.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Whoosh.

      You seem to have completely missed the point that Valve does not deserve 1/3 of all gaming revenue for running an automated digital store.

      And, as a developer, I really don’t care how much companies pay to marketing vendors. Developer pay is generally negotiated when you’re hired. I haven’t worked in B2C but, as I understand it, they usually pay bonuses on sales volume rather than profits.

      Honestly what are you even trying to say here? That because you write B2B software on a salaried basis, that that means that an indie game dev doesn’t care whether or not Valve takes 30% of all of their revenue?

      Like no shit sherlock, thats a matter of you being a salaried employee. If you owned your own company you would very much care about a middle making taking 1/3 off the top.

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      • nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So you don’t care that Larian isn’t harmed, you don’t care that the dev’s aren’t harmed, you don’t care that the consumer isn’t harmed.

        You just feel bad for Epic?

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  • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If Larian has no problem, why do you?

    Also pcgamer.com/…/in-response-to-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney…

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you’re not going to answer the question?

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      • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Like seriously what do you care? Why does it matter to you how much cut Steam or Epic take?

        Personally I just don’t give a shit. I am supporting Linux gaming development, that’s all I care about.

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