This reminds me of malicious compliance at my work. There was a dude who was always early to work, but that actually allowed the company to be more productive since he was a manufacturing operator whose machinery took around 20-30 minutes of preparation and warmup time, and by the time he was ready, rest of the personnel that works down the line was ready to work too and didn't have to wait around. He sometimes clocked out few minutes early and got written up.
After that, he was always at work at exactly 6:00, not 5:30. The company sure saved those 5 minutes
because of the anti-competitive price restrictions that Valve often imposes on game developers and producers (the Price Parity Obligations). This means a publisher or developer would not be able to list a game on another platform as well as Steam, unless the prices offered on Steam is the same or lower. This applies to games on all other distribution stores (including online and physical stores) not just those distributed by Steam Keys
Textbook anti-trust lawsuit. Different from what Epic does, I doubt they impose such rules on developers.
Depends if you're a big developer or some indie one. Big developers commonly don't pay fees or have special deals (Uber, etc.). Smaller ones pay 15% up to 1 million downloads, then it's 30%. So if you want to pay less, get really rich first.
That being said, this is on top of the VAT, not part of it. Still charging 30% in 2026 feels criminal and greedy. This applies to nearly all big corporations, including Valve Corporation with Gabe's fleet of yachts and company making more money per employee than any other company. It made more sense to take 30% cut when 100Gb of HDD costed thousand dollars, internet was metered in megabytes and the whole infrastructure was just not there yet, but this "industry standart" tax never changed even tho for them distributing apps has become far, far cheaper than it used to.
So people are concerned that Chinese cameras pointing at the Magna Carta will be used to... What?...
The obvious - make a list of people that are threatening CCP regime. If those people do anything else, then.. well, we know what happens with Chinese speaking out against CCP
Again, you start your first sentence with "America". America this. America that, America here, America there. As if existence of America is an argument for China to do bad. This is very, VERY stupid logic. Stop using shitty countries as an example or argument for shitty behaviour already.
because you know they support the USA, wrongfully
They support anyone that supports them, instead of beating into submission. I know for bullies and imperialists this is hard to understand, just like how Ukrainians look up to Europeans or US instead of Russia. Start actually thinking and this all will make sense to you. https://www.hongkongwatch.org/political-prisoners-database
The USA government should
How about this - if you start your sentence with America or USA, I stop reading because you keep reflecting as if existence of one fascist state excuses existence of another.
Make more sense than huffing large volumes of unknown chemicals from Chinese factories that are completely unregulated or tested.
What's with these weird wild assumptions? You clearly have an agenda. Who tf buys sketchy Chinese vapes and why is this even your argument? What goes into your vape, is actually regulated in both EU and US and regulations actively follow science. Ie. It was found that a compound diatecyl harms users and is found in some vapes. Regulations quickly banned that shit and it's no longer found in vapes.
This reminds me of malicious compliance at my work. There was a dude who was always early to work, but that actually allowed the company to be more productive since he was a manufacturing operator whose machinery took around 20-30 minutes of preparation and warmup time, and by the time he was ready, rest of the personnel that works down the line was ready to work too and didn't have to wait around. He sometimes clocked out few minutes early and got written up.
After that, he was always at work at exactly 6:00, not 5:30. The company sure saved those 5 minutes