I believe thats what apnews/reuters do and a lot of newpapers piggy back off them for national/international news but add their own spin to it.

Id upboat this but that might be used as evidence of libel.

Lol thanks for that, i stopped watching after minute 5.

That is a dynamic rate by definition, not saying its perfect. But its available to any dev whos game hits those numbers.

So is valves. Shrug. Simply using the publicly available information.

Thought i responded to this, but oh well will do it again.

Epic, EA, Microsoft, sony, ubisoft all have a long history of poor worker conditions or anti-consumer practices.

Valve and gog have 20+ years of decent but not perfect history of worker and pro gamer practices.

The contention in this thread is from people who think valve cant be trusted because capitalism and those who say as long as they continue good behavior they’re a better choice than any of the others in the space. While epic has never shown this procommunity behavior.

Basically gog is valves only real competitor and since they dont support linux or provide many of the game featurss valve does for developers its no contest.

Gog doesnt support linux or id look at them. But they also charge 30%

Thats because they have a reputational problem that makes them toxic to the gamer base. If they ever get market share that split will change willy nilly.

You go write that text book. Let me know when you publish your first game, you clearly have it all figured out! You know… minus the basics.

Your problem is you’re antivalve for reasons no one really gives a shit about. Your issues with valve are not the %age it charges for sales on its steam store, but with moral positions you have personally and it colors your viewpoints.

Facts: valve has charged a 30% commission since it made steam available for other studios to use.

Fact: no one complained for literally 15 years.

Fact: complaints about the split start after two things occurred. Massive inflation cutting into margins and steam dominating the distribution of games.

You’re arguments to date have been: Gabe/valve are bad people because they’re a monopoly! Here are issues from over a decade that are no longer even relevant.

Like if you want to argue that the percentage valve takes is too high, then sure we can discuss that. And hey, you wont even hear a peep from me in that case. Because its true imo.

But the problem is GOG also takes 30%. And every other distributor has reputational issues that make them non-starters.

unless you have a valid and active issue with valves practices that are unique to valve maybe its time to take the L, fuck off on this topic, and get a clue? Because no one is defending valve because they’re valve. We’re defending them because they’re the best company in the market for consumers.

No, I’m not. you’re assuming i am. game developers dont generally have the relationships with distributors. the whole point of a publisher is to handle that relationship + the relationship with marketing avenues.

with digital distribution the role of a publisher is greatly reduced. mostly down to just marketing.

smile the whole point of publishers back in the day before the internet was distribution and marketing. no I am not mistaking one for the other.

but no, steam has maintained its 30% cut since its inception do you know the rate publishers like EA demand? 50%. EA is just pissed valve is a better and more reasonable publisher than they are.

so long as EA and other publishers exist and are taking a bigger cut than valve. I’m happy to give valve a pass atm at the better option.

the issue at hand atm is gamers won’t tolerate price increases and inflation has cut into the original profit margin. and so publishers are running around screaming about valve’s 30% cut when they demand a larger cut.

in this case you can.

even if they do become pro-consumer you shouldn’t spend there. because it’d be a temporary affair and soon as they win market share from steam it’ll disappear.

Calling people nazis is just shorthand for fascist which allows people to understand the depths of the horrors these individuals will cause.

It in no way devalues the suffering of Holocaust victims, its a warning.

You dont fucking wait until they’re turning the gas valves to go ‘oh these people are fascists!’

Lol. Sadly no we don’t do much better at rodent elimination these days. Our sanitation/cleanliness of our living spaces are the primary improvements that prevent things like the bubonic.

Yes the point was that the problem is the system design not the voters not being logical enough go watch star trek and follow Spock’s character development. 😂

And the problem with using a shared cultural reference is? 😂

Fucker we use water pipes to explain current and other concepts in high energy physics.

You need to get over yourself.

And your problem remains the same. Your friend experiences the world differently than you. You gf might very well have had a symmetrical face in her mind.

And as for sound healing: define healing. ;) many people find emotional release through music. Which is an example of healing.

You basically just sound like an anal retentive ass afk who hasnt even started to comprehend the world and people around them.

they couldn’t reason their way out of a wet paper bag.

neither can you apparently. you’re confusing reasoning with jargon. they just speak a different dialect.

‘focus energy in your feet’ is tell you to ground yourself, loosen your knees and tighten the core. chi describes focusing your mental attention on something. any person who has snowboarded/skateboarded would understand exactly what that person is saying if they bothered to listen and put the terms into context.

do you consider ‘sound healing’ bogus? what if I told you your cells have receptors that can detect sound vibrations (your ears work right? but its more than that individual cells can too.)? which cause neural impulses which can impact large areas of the brain and body directly and indirectly.

your problem is you dont stop to listen and understand what these people are saying and you just dismiss it because they settled on using a different way of speaking and describing concepts that are nontraditional in western societies.