Valve's Steam platform smashes records again, hitting a new all-time peak of over 43.5 million concurrent players and 14.4 million in-game users.
  • NekoBeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 days

    Valve just offers such a good service with Steam.

    I first check Steam before buying a game anywhere else.

    GOG is a close runner-up though.

    • One2many@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 days

      Same, then I load the game I bought on GOG in steam for convenience.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14 days

    You’d think they could afford to knock that 30% cut down a little by now.

    • bigbangdangler@reddthat.comEnglish
      13 days

      I legitimately don’t understand this argument.

      Can you elaborate why Steam is singled out for this? Something beyond “Steam bad”?

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        12 days

        Because Steam is the company under discussion here. I don’t think Steam is bad.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        13 days

        Pretty sure both apple and google have been targetted for this as well, in court cases brought by epic iirc.

    • BlackAura@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 days

      They already do. I forget the numbers but once you’ve sold X copies it drops maybe to 20%? Then once you’ve sold Y copies (where Y > X) it drops even further, say like 10%?

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13 days

      That’s not how capitalism works. If anything, they should be increasing their prices because they have a stranglehold on the market.

    • arudesalad@piefed.caEnglish
      13 days

      He bought the yacht company, what’s next? The sea? At least his money isn’t as dirty as most tech ceo’s money is (although it isn’t completely clean)

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
      12 days

      I’ve basically moved all my ps5 gaming to steam.

      I bought a DisplayPort to hdmi 2 adapter for my computer and the expertise got a whole lot better.