We're talking about a store than can't even get a cart set up, that leaves the question of cloud saves up in the air on a game by game basis, whose entire existence is backed by revenue from one of the most popular games of all time and most certainly is not paying for itself.
A race to the bottom seems like a great way to ruin the industry.
I'm trying my hardest but I can't even imagine Gaben giving enough fucks for that
Steam Proton, Steam Input, Steam Link, SteamVR, Steam Workshop, Steam Labs, Free Multiplayer API, etc.
And also the fact they produce the hardware their players play on. It can be very risky and we've seen with past consoles being very costly on the manufacturers.
Proton/Steam Play, Steam Input, a huge amount of investment into VR, Steam Workshop, a huge amount of investment into a wide variety of FOSS projects ranging from SDL2 to the Mesa project, their free cross platform multiplayer API which is now allowing games like Divinity OS2 to share saves with the Switch version, etc.
They are not tho.
What kind of writing is this? Why don't they just say "five"?
Because you're inherently ruining the platforms they're sold and consumed through.
Clients also cost money to maintain.
If "more money to devs" means more money to a small fraction of selected devs whose games are chosen based on their popularity on pre-order lists of other platforms, maybe you have a point. EGS is giving more money to a few devs and forbidding everyone else from using their storefront. Devs aren't welcome to release on EGS without exclusivity, and only a tiny fraction of devs even get that opportunity.
In what way is this new % ruining Steam, or EGS itself?
The reality of EGS though is that it gives more to developers by cutting deals with select studios to pay for their games to be on the platform. A direct comparison between Steam isn't really possible because there's no way for a small dev to just hop on EGS and start taking their 88%.
Eh, retailers aren't really mass sending back product that doesn't sell well, they clearance it, don't order more, and move on.
So the worry here is that if steam feels the pressure (pun intended) and drop their percentage, the support for all this you listed will disappear from steam and EGS will feel no need to introduce these functionalities for parity with steam to try and secure more customers?
Control was gonna flop regardless. At least, they got money upfront for it.
