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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Epic makes tons of money off licensing Unreal to developers and have since before their store was a thing.

Proton makes direct zero profit, though it does make Steam the best store for anyone on Linux.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

Not sure why “direct profit” is important.

Proton is basic infrastructure for Steam Deck (which runs Linux). Valve has sold millions of units that I doubt would have been sold without Proton. There’s just a ton of games that will never be ported to native Linux.

Proton isn’t only Valve’s doing though. It’s heavily built on top of Wine which is a very mature open source project that has seen extensive leadership and contributions by CodeWeavers.