Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours agoBy that logic valve would be justified with even 95% cut if network efect was even stronger. That’s stupid logic that only thinks in terms of working with what you have. Valve already takes a cut and not a hard value. It’s in their very business to increase sales and they shouldn’t be additionally rewarded for such because by increased sales they already get the money.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Fair enough - I was thinking in terms of choice rather than justification. A better question, then, would be: what is a fair percentage given Steam’s services both developer-side and player-side (more satisfied players are also a perk for developers)?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Plus, their investment into Linux gaming and FOSS in general are preventing PC gaming from being locked down to a singled OS that becomes a walled garden.