Lowering fees would have resulted in everyone liking them even more.

You’re thinking of revenue, not profit. Profit is revenue minus costs.

So is your solution to have Valve hire more people and be less profitable? That would justify their fees?

No, they should have charged lower fees.

You talk like a shill.

You’re literally defending a billionaire who made his money overcharging gamers for decades.

Because per employee, Valve is one of the most profitable tech companies ever. That means they charged far higher fees than their costs.

Oh yeah, let’s all repeat the playbook of GoG, first you just have to spend a decade establishing yourself as the only publisher able to get former Soviet gamers to pay for games rather than pirate them, then turn that trust that you built with two third party developers into a storefront selling their classic titles for them for 6 years, then use your established customer base and goodwill to try and transition into being a proper AAA storefront.

Totally viable business strategy /s

Another thread where gamers praise Valve for ripping them off for years, and think Tim Sweeney is the devil for trying to break into the market.

Valve never had to because they established a monopoly so developers did that on their own without Valve paying them. Meanwhile Valve has ripped off the entire gaming industry for its entire existence, charging absurd fees to gamers and developers and you guys are all so bought into their monopoly that you blindly praise them for it.

Gabe Newell is a billionaire. No billionaire earned their money. Every billionaire exploited people for it.

The epic launcher is exact as spyware filled as the steam launcher.

And Algonquin Park would never have existed, and or been completely developed over.

Lmfao, says the guy who immediately devolved the discussion to ‘youre defending a pedophile’, when I suggested that a world wide conspiracy might not exist.

Keep insisting that a cabal is putting you down specifically, I’m sure it’s easier to accept than you just kind of sucking as a person.

Oh wow, an edge lord on the internet called me a pedophile billionaire apologist, how original, what keen intellect, what honest discussion.

Quote the exact words where I called children prostitutes. Don’t worry, reading comprehension is a learned skill, but we can get there.

Please quote where I said it was ok.

Oh, you’re from lemmy.ml, I shouldn’t have bothered engaging in the first place, that makes sense.

Lmao, enjoy trying to navigate life thinking that saying the magic words “WEF, Epstein Island, Microsoft”, counts as overwhelming evidence, or even counts as a coherent logical train of thought.

Lol no it fucking doesn’t. My fucking god, you people are fucking conspiracy theory crazy.

Literally all of his actions can be explained by him simply acting out if self interest at each decision point. None of it implies a larger plot in any way shape or form.

Honestly, you sound like religious who people who desperately need their to be some larger machinations at work and can’t just accept that most things happen due to random chance.

Also, weird you call children “prostitutes”.

No, it’s weird that you think that every girl Epstein had on his island was underage. Or maybe you didn’t read actual reporting, just internet conspiracy theories.

No man, I mean for the rich too.

It is depressing to travel around the US and see crumbling infrastructure, poverty, crime etc. and that makes you feel much less safe overall.

At the same time it’s also true and provable that uncle Bill spends his money lobbying various domestic and international organizations to further his and by proxy the owner class’es interest.

It’s provable that he seems to do it to further his own interests, but it’s also entirely possible (if I personally think unlikely), that he lobbied for that path because he thought it was the more practical path that was more likely to succeed or gain traction for whatever reason.

Or he may have done it because he has a vested interested in maintaining IP law, or maybe he has friends who do who convinced him it was important, and he did it because he wanted to please his friends.

Or maybe he did it because he was really conniving and constantly thinking specifically about class principles and how to fuck the lower classes. But I suspect the reality is simpler.

But it doesn’t take a mastermind, nor imply a larger world ending plot.

Lol, the idea that a billionaire liked to go to his friend’s party Island and fuck prostitutes automatically means he’s also part of an intentionally world ending cabal is flat out tin foil hat level conspiracy theory.

Occams razor would suggest that Epstein was popular because people like to fuck, not because he was an evil mastermind.