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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually earned profit too

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've despised steam ever since they forced it on me to play HL2.

I hate the store page that pops up whenever I want to play a game.

I hate the friends list.

I miss when I would just install a game and it was just an icon on my desktop. Now they think they should own my gaming experience and they're so powerful I can't say no.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That last para is missing the fact that you'd have to go to a store and buy a CD and come back home and play vs downloading in a few minutes in today's time plus get insane discounts. Not to mention easily conquer compatibility issues. Also use controllers very easily including dualshocks. You can still have desktop icons, you can ignore the friends list, and disable notifications/pop-ups.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok boomer

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean that's great but still multiple orders of magnitude less than Apple in profits...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Fair point, however everyone (just about) has either an android or apple phone. Not everyone plays computer games.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Apple charges 15-30% fee to sell games built on their platform: 🤮greedy bastards 🤮

Stream charges 30% to sell games on their platform: 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍

Edit: Downvotes without rebuttal prove my point.

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