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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

my problem is people conflate pro develper and pro consumer actions as the same thing, when they arent. what epic does is very pro developer(better cut, money in advance if exclusive), but the platform is far from being pro consumer(removes consumer choice in platform to buy it on, lower competiuon, inconplete community, store, workshop, and os functionality). I'm in open arms for competition, but it actively is a worse consumer experience, then its very hard to support.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago

Epic is really only pro-dev in that way though, steam has a lot of perks through its steamworks api

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

I said this in another place, but the single only reason that Epic is pro developer is because they have miniscule market share.

If they gain significant market share, they will 100% absolutely guaranteed, no doubt, double their cut from developers.

It is the exact scum tactic that has been done dozens of times before like amazon.