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The main problem I see with this is that game devs are trying to use capitalism to make money. So what you're saying is, it's alright for game devs, but not for store fronts.
That doesn't make sense to me.
Additionally though, of the major gaming retailers, Valve has the least predatory model (I'm not counting smaller game retailers in this because we need to be honest about the fact that they aren't competing in the market with Valve as far as what they offer devs).
Did you take into account the reasons that game devs choose Valve over other retailers like GOG? Or the fact that very often game devs will use Valve, GOG and other gaming retailers?
You didn't give any specifics in your answer to me and honestly I have to wonder if you even know where the majority of Valves money comes from.
Follow-up question.
How does the consumer benefit from and why should they switch to a different retailer than Valve's Steam? What is the benefit of a fediverse style retailer and how does it work?
Here an example that you can understand: nobody should buy gasoline or use cars but many are forced to do it because they have to go to work to earn the money they need to survive. The capitalists pushing this corrupted system are forced to do it only by their own greed, they are the ones who need to be blamed before anyone else.
They promote gambling to kids, the "least predatory model" it's still a predatory model.
Valve managed to build a small monopoly on the videogame market and together with other tech corporation they managed to centralize internet around a bunch of service/platforms that people are now hooked to. Promoting anything outside the corporation world would result in small to zero visibility.
From taking a cut on selling games and from microtransactions.
Now i have a question for you, how does the ceo of valve spend the majority of his money?
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html
The whole humanity will benefit if we stop giving money to billionares and their private corporations who promote closed and centralized, for profit, evil, business models.