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Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

But it does abuse its market position. By setting very high developer/publisher fees and forcing everyone to pay them. Don’t forget that from Steam perspective, developers and publisher are their consumers, not you. Their business is similar to supermarkets. Supermarkets don’t see stuff to you, they provide selling services to produce manufacturers.

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derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
But those fees are counteracted by large user base, which is large due to the fact the platform is great and provides it’s users good features that aren’t elsewhere. A s large user base means large buying power, which directly translates to higher sales and thus higher profits.

If a supermarket gives the customers a nice place to stay, and provides extra features others don’t, the extra cost for having your store in there (in Steam terms higher commissions, although I personally think it’s adequate, but I digress) is offset by having bigger profit overall.

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- Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That doesn’t mean Steam doesn’t abuse its power. Because they sure do.
  
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  - derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How? By being a good company? Look at the Google Play Store lawsuit, and why were they sued, any why they lost. Steam is not abusing it’s position. And if you think they do, gimme an example or two please.
    
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    Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Steam has several lawsuits and class actions over their head:
    
    Wolfire Games VS Valve
    
    The Bucher Law class action suit (probably a scam as most CLAs, but comes with a huge PDF with all the allegations)
    
    And if you go to dockets.justia.com you will find a lot of action against Valve.
    
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