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"

• nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’re not going to answer the question?

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    • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Because it’s enriching millionaires and billionaires for not doing shit, at the expense of gamers who are overpaying, and/or game developers who are losing out on revenue they can use to pay the people actually making games.

        And because gamers act like billionaire-Gabe is a saint, and billionaire-Sweeney is the devil, when Gabe has ripped everyone off for decades, and Tim Sweeney just paid developers for exclusive game rights to try and launch a competitor store.

        Tim Sweeney has also risked a significant chunk of Epic’s Fortnite fortune on lawsuits that have fundamentally changed and broken the app store monopoly, and he’s spent much of his personal fortune on buying up land for nature conservation.

        The idea that Gabe and Valve are saints and Tim and Epic are the devil is fucking dumb.

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