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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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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Vale literally and probably does and has. 30% of revenue is not a reasonable fee for basically anything. That's a Mafia markup.

Like lmfao, it takes dozens to hundred of devs like 5-7 years to make a game like Baldur's Gate, and you think that Valve deserves 30% of all of their sales for managing the same basic storefront they built 20 years ago.

That's absurd.