nave@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoHere’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkHere’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employswww.theverge.comnave@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareerwan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI love Steam and I love Gabe, but the system we have that let Steam extract so much money out of the gaming industry is broken. And that’s true for software or online services in general, and I’m saying that as someone who benefit from that system as a software engineer.
minus-squareit_depends_man@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIt is broken in the sense that it’s absolutely insane that they can take 30% and nobody can build a competing product that only takes 20%. It is not broken in the sense that they keep doing what they are doing and developers and customers consistently choose their offer. It’s not a monopoly because they exploit their position. It’s a monopoly because nobody else is trying hard enough.
minus-squareTier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoWhat do you suggest, when the alternatives like epic or Ubisoft are exponentially worse?
I love Steam and I love Gabe, but the system we have that let Steam extract so much money out of the gaming industry is broken.
And that’s true for software or online services in general, and I’m saying that as someone who benefit from that system as a software engineer.
It is broken in the sense that it’s absolutely insane that they can take 30% and nobody can build a competing product that only takes 20%.
It is not broken in the sense that they keep doing what they are doing and developers and customers consistently choose their offer.
It’s not a monopoly because they exploit their position.
It’s a monopoly because nobody else is trying hard enough.
What do you suggest, when the alternatives like epic or Ubisoft are exponentially worse?