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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Lol in what way are they "putting the squeeze" on developers aside from the 30% cut?

Also your prior comment that valve does nothing else is hilarious, the steam deck, steamOS, Proton, the valve index.

They do SO MUCH more.

Automatic save cloud syncing, steam remote play, steam link, the community forums, steam workshop.

Get your head out of your ass, no other platform comes close to feature parity and putting back into improving pc gaming.

Also steam DRM is laughably easy to circumvent and they haven't shown any interest in over a decade of doing anything about it.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of other platforms spend more money on the platform than Steam. Definitely. Easy.

I mean, for one thing the console manufacturers are shipping a TON more hardware, often with very low margins. And they are all bigger than Steam and have as much of a software upkeep. They are spending more money on game development than Steam, too.

Steam Deck, Steam OS, the Index and Proton are at most on par with what Sony does just for the PS5 platform.

Oh, and to your first question, Steam does very much tell developers what they want them to do. They are a first party, and have their own preferences an policies. They are currently in court for banning developers from offering games cheaper on any other competing service, for instance.