• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    If the majority of developers gave a shit about the difference between Valve’s 30% and EGS’s 10 or 15% cut, you’d think they’d actually be going over there. But they’re not. If anything, they put their game out everywhere. So clearly the 30% cut thing isn’t a problem. The only devs they are coaxing over to EGS over Steam are the ones they strike up exclusivity deals with, which is anti-competitive bullshit.

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      2 days ago

      Sounds like a long winded way to say you don’t understand network effects or monopolies

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          How does it feel not grasping what it means to be an antimonopolist? I imagine it’s kind of expensive.

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              Who is defending Epic? You seem to be conflating legitimate criticism of Valve (which everyone should do) with defending the douchebag Tim Sweeney (which no one should do). But it’s a false choice to think you have to support one team or the other; both companies can be bad, and criticism of app store fees (whether Apple’s or Valve’s) has nothing to do with supporting Epic, that’s just a false equivalence.

              • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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                You literally are spouting out the same nonesense Sweeny does multiple places in this post. To say you’re not defending him or his platform is a blatant lie anyone with eyeballs reading this thread can see.

                Good day, sir or madam.

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                  Let’s say Donald Trump says corporate landlords shouldn’t be able to own houses. If someone else makes the same argument, that doesn’t make them a Trump supporter. You get that, right?