Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    What position are they taking advantage of? If they ask for a smaller cut than 30 percent they get botched at for being anti competitive and being too cheap to try and compete against. They ask for more than 30% and they’re price gouging. Sure, everyone who works there is happy and sleeps in piles of money, but they can’t do anything about it without turning into more of a monopoly. As it stands they at least blow money on potentially cool things in R&D like the steam controller, steam box, and Steam Deck.

    What do you actually want Gabe to do? He’s already far and wide the industry leader in employee compensation, and he can’t take a smaller cut without becoming a monopoly. Yeah, he could donate loads of money to charity, but his giant stack of cash also keeps his private company lush with funds to continue paying his employees if anything dire does happen, instead of doing like everyone else and laying off people.

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      2 days ago

      You’re defending the owner of a yacht collection and saying his money is used to keep his business lush… Get real.

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          2 days ago

          Because such a ridiculous take doesn’t warrant a response.

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              1 day ago

              From the get go you start by saying that if they try to lower their cut people will accuse them of trying to become a monopoly, which is completely idiotic considering they’re already in a monopolistic position. Then you act like rich people have no power over the fact that they’re accumulating wealth while the majority of the world is struggling to live.

              I have zero respect for people who defend those who take advantage of the majority.

              Off to the block list with you.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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        2 days ago

        No no, you don’t understand!

        He’s one of the good billionaires!

        (/s for some of you, and for others perhaps you should reconsider why you feel the need to defend a billionaire, regardless of your opinion on video game platforms)