It isn’t about the effect on you but the effect on the industry as a whole. That’s why they are similar.
Amazon and Airbnb both dominate the market. They both have a better product than their competitors. Exactly like steam, they abuse their position and have a long term negative impact on their respective scenes.
The article above is literally about how hard the gaming industry is having it. You would have a good product in any case, because the lion’s share of the money being made isn’t going to making steam better but going to filthy rich people like Gaben.
They have like 100 employees (the financial Times estimates they made about 11 million per employee in 2021), steam probably only needs to charge less then 1% to cover it’s current expenses and salaries. All that money is being taken from devs (less games for us, more bankrupt studios) and being given to the top dogs (Gaben to buy boats).
I don’t think there’s much more to say. You seem to be really enthusiastic about supporting a billionaire’s money extraction machine and can’t understand that the effects of a company go further than your enjoyment of their product. You are defending the boot because it’s fluffy and soft.
Okay, you seem to be missing the point.
It isn’t about the effect on you but the effect on the industry as a whole. That’s why they are similar.
Amazon and Airbnb both dominate the market. They both have a better product than their competitors. Exactly like steam, they abuse their position and have a long term negative impact on their respective scenes.
The article above is literally about how hard the gaming industry is having it. You would have a good product in any case, because the lion’s share of the money being made isn’t going to making steam better but going to filthy rich people like Gaben.
They have like 100 employees (the financial Times estimates they made about 11 million per employee in 2021), steam probably only needs to charge less then 1% to cover it’s current expenses and salaries. All that money is being taken from devs (less games for us, more bankrupt studios) and being given to the top dogs (Gaben to buy boats).
I don’t think there’s much more to say. You seem to be really enthusiastic about supporting a billionaire’s money extraction machine and can’t understand that the effects of a company go further than your enjoyment of their product. You are defending the boot because it’s fluffy and soft.
https://archive.ph/dmHDP (FT article)