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We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • So wait you're only hang-up is that the store has to offer the download? The fuck....

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Except they're literally listing them on other stores cheaper than on steam. The fuck are you talking about?

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • They are sold cheaper than on steam...the fuck are you talking about, literally you said they can't sell them cheaper. And that's completely false.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Uhh that's completely wrong. I've bought keys from tons of different stores (humble being the majn one) when there were sales going on for the game. All registered with steam keys.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • People forget what it was like matchmaking pre-steam. Games would vanish if they weren't some huge game publisher with a big following.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • It wasn't killed by steam, it was killed by technological progress. CDroms were absolutely expensive to produce, print, ship etc. What do price cuts have to do with availability? As I asked before, when since steam did indie games have the audience they have now?

    Also why say CD-ROM wasn't expensive and then bring up digital? You're not doing anything to prove steam is this evil thing.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Luckily your computer can run any software you want so there's no need to build any platform to play videogames.

    What's the point of this comment? This doesn't answer the question.

    I was reply to your concern of people not being able to find their games, the fediverse is an example of how you can build a non centralized network and still bring people together.

    Ok then what's stopping people from doing that?

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • All of those studies are flawed as fuck. They assume the products the rich sell as polution. Do you sit there and include farmers in it as well because they sell/grow the food you eat which is a huge contributor to climate change. The yachts they buy, sit in dry dock 99% of their lives. You bitching about it is pure ignorance.

    • Biden announces $2.5 billion in Ukraine defense assistance

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  • The fuck? Nothing I said was even remotely in support of your argument. What part of us giving our old equipment to Ukraine, which in turn helps support jobs here did you not get?

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • The second hand market wasn't killed because of steam, it was killed because of digitalizing everything...on top of that. The fact that you think physical copies allowed indie games to exist, shows how extremely ignorant of this topic you are. Physical media is extremely expensive, and was not available for anyone unless a publisher took a chance on you. Even if steam didn't exist, companies would have moved to digital anyways because its cheaper and more people get the product.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Steam has been around for 2 decades now, and I'll ask again. Please find me a indie game that had success when steam wasn't around, and find me one that made it in brick and mortar stores that didn't take 30%+

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Uhh no...no they didn't. B&Ms existed before the net and digital copies became Common place. The indie scene exploded with steam/itch/gog storefronts. The hell are you talking about, find me multiple indie games that have awards from decades ago. I'll wait.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • 30% when you get hosting/friends/multiplayer support/advertising/bandwidth out of that, and you don't have to do anything? Yes, they are happy to pay that.

    • Biden announces $2.5 billion in Ukraine defense assistance

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  • 60 billion is a drop in the bucket, the majority of which isn't cash, it's equipment that's been sitting and is no longer being used. That 60 billion is put back into our own economy because it means jobs are being made to replace said equipment. It's a win win for both sides. We're also the richest country on the planet, we have plenty to do what we need to here at home, but it's not getting done because of Ukraine, it's not getting done because we have politicians who are beholden to the rich oligarchs here.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Mega yachts aren't causing our issues. 3rd world countries with no regulations for environmental impact and consumerism is. Most of these yachts just sit in a port doing nothing but collecting dust 99% of the time. Thinking that getting rid of yachts is going to even scratch the surface of our environmental problems is a joke.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • Cool, that still doesn't answer the question...and if you're suggesting that people build a decentralized platform to rival steam...no one is stopping them from doing so.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • The fuck? Are you suggesting there is somehow a better way for people to find indie games? Let's say steam doesn't exist at all, and every indie dev has to host their own website and files....tell me how you plan on getting people to find their games?

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • So we're at a point that, someone who owns something because they're rich makes them evil?

    Y'all have lost the damn plot if that's the case.

    • We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple

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  • 70%...and devs are happy to pay the 30% to get on a platform that's worth a fuck. Valve carries the servers, the bandwidth and service. Tons of indie devs have made it via steam. They're a platform for games, not a healthcare company or apple that's exploiting slave labor.

    Plenty of villans out there, valve and gabe isn't one of them.