In a world where Sony and Embracer are running around saying we need to be paying $70+ for games (while tipping the devs and buying micro transactions like a good like wallet)... You're mad at the storefront?

Yeah, go into Walmart and demand they take less of a cut so... The publisher can take more from the devs?

Gabe is rich because he spearheaded a good service (which I'll admit I thought was a scam back when I was forced to make an account way back when I had dial up) but... 30% is standard. For the price of games? Be mad at Embracer. Be mad at EA. You're free to not like or use Steam but they let the publishers set the price. Their cut is a drop in the bucket. The whole 'cut' debate is just EGS propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

...(which I'll admit I thought was a scam back when I was forced to make an account way back when I had dial up)...

Oh man, I cursed Valve and Steam back then. It effectively made LAN parties of the time impossible since you could no longer share media and needed Internet access to play. Back then, only business had the "fast" Internets while everyone else had 56k baud modems. Hard to do much when your max download speed for the entire connection was 5kb/s.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

saying we need to be paying $70+ for games

On which Steam gets $21 or more so in reality they need to sell games for $50.