Pretty sure I've never bought a game for Steam from anywhere BUT Steam. If I got a Steam key from somewhere other than Steam it was something like Humble Bundle and was basically free, so they're still screwed.
At the same time you just admitted to arguing in bad faith when you spout nonsense about "supporting the devs" and then backtracking to "supporting the publishers, at least someone else gets the money instead of Valve". Also, please don't spread lies to further your (barely existing) arguments. Valve has not been "sitting on their ass", they funneled money and manpower into Linux gaming a lot in these past months, but I guess that doesn't fit your agenda of just trolling.
Not trolling, just my opinion. Sad that an opinion you don't agree with is automatically trolling.
True, but can you show me sales statistics to back up your claim that these free keys are making up a significant chunk of overall sales? I cannot find statistics regarding sales period with a cursory search.
You've gotta be kidding me, right?
The storefront improved, and opening the floodgates was good. What a shitpost.
All the trading garbage, achievements, forums, and basically anything that's not immediately related to the purchasing and playing of games. They couldn't even manage game reviews properly until recently.
Yeah opening the floodgates for any clown with enough time, asset flips and upload fee was working fuckimg great. Love seeing pages of trash hog the front page spotlight.
20+ games are released on the eShop alone most weeks and many weeks are far more than 20. This doesn't even include retail releases as well. It's just not filled with things you want.
And for only 12% instead of 30% and in a fraction of the time...I don't know how they can manage to afford that...
Gotta make hyperbolic statements to sound legit. Plus suggestions exist, so if you only see asset flips then that's probably cause you look into loads of them.
I call you out on trolling because you use superficial arguments, when others point them out and just move the goalposts and anyone not agreeing with you is a despicable human being because we don't "want" the devs to get their due. Hey I don't have a problem with actual devs trying to get more money, but so far all we've seen are publishers cutting deals with Epic with rumors that the respective devs are not happy with that decision and many other devs openly opioning the exact opposite of doing business with Epic.
Already forgotten about the cut "influencers" get for playing the games on stream?
For a storefront, no they're not necessary. Forums are going to exist elsewhere, so it would be better to focus time and effort on managing your actual store rather than provide a place for people to be their worst selves.
That's a developer/publisher relationship issue. They don't like how their publisher is dealing, they need to deal with the publisher.
That's a choice. Nobody is forced to do that, but it might work out for some people. That's for individual developers and publishers to decide.
There's what...12 options that require payment processor fees?
It happens for a select few and it does indeed suck, but most of the processors which aren't covered by Epic have alternatives that are covered by Epic.
Eh, of all of Valves issues I don't mind the forums for games and troubleshooting. I found some good solutions to compatibility problems on there. Everything else is a moderation issue.
So basically Tim Sweeney is a liar that is fine with shady business practices and cutting out choice as long as he and his friends from Tencent get their sweet dollar.
