Y'all have no idea what criticism even looks like.
The fact that using their services and paying them their cut is more profitable than not doing so absolutely, in and of itself, proves beyond discussion that their cut is fair.
Yes, sales should cost money. Moving units is a fucking massive value add. Valve deserves every penny they take and more. They're the best thing that ever happened to PC gaming and nothing else is remotely close.
Beyond discussion! What a mind-job.
Continued use only proves this is a way to make money. Probably the best available way. But to suggest that, so long as people are doing it, there cannot possibly be problems, is obvious crap.
Especially when you add "and more." Oh: so this isn't the exact right amount, as decreed by mighty god himself? We can talk about the middleman's cut, so long as the rent goes up?
If your complaint is the money they take in exchange for sales, it's literally impossible for anything but the fact that paying them nets you significantly more money to be meaningful.
Valve built PC as a platform. If they never existed, you wouldn't get 10% of the PC sales. That absolutely means they're entitled to their share. Platform development is a massive value add, and useless jackasses trivializing their contribution by pretending that the massive development project of building a platform isn't every bit as important as single products on the platform can fuck right off.
There is no point humoring abusive word salad.
Valve could take a lot less and it wouldn't kill them. Or PC gaming. Wouldn't be whatever frothing insult you pretend it is, either. It's just... less money. They'd still make a shitload of money. Just... less.
The number can be smaller and the sky wouldn't fall.
The number right now is obscenely high. It's the most they think they can get away with. And they can only get away with it because of their de-facto monopoly, which should end.
"It makes money so it can't be wrong."
"It's commonplace so it must be fine."
Y'all have no idea what criticism even looks like.
The fact that using their services and paying them their cut is more profitable than not doing so absolutely, in and of itself, proves beyond discussion that their cut is fair.
Yes, sales should cost money. Moving units is a fucking massive value add. Valve deserves every penny they take and more. They're the best thing that ever happened to PC gaming and nothing else is remotely close.
Beyond discussion! What a mind-job.
Continued use only proves this is a way to make money. Probably the best available way. But to suggest that, so long as people are doing it, there cannot possibly be problems, is obvious crap.
Especially when you add "and more." Oh: so this isn't the exact right amount, as decreed by mighty god himself? We can talk about the middleman's cut, so long as the rent goes up?
If your complaint is the money they take in exchange for sales, it's literally impossible for anything but the fact that paying them nets you significantly more money to be meaningful.
Valve built PC as a platform. If they never existed, you wouldn't get 10% of the PC sales. That absolutely means they're entitled to their share. Platform development is a massive value add, and useless jackasses trivializing their contribution by pretending that the massive development project of building a platform isn't every bit as important as single products on the platform can fuck right off.
There is no point humoring abusive word salad.
Valve could take a lot less and it wouldn't kill them. Or PC gaming. Wouldn't be whatever frothing insult you pretend it is, either. It's just... less money. They'd still make a shitload of money. Just... less.
The number can be smaller and the sky wouldn't fall.
The number right now is obscenely high. It's the most they think they can get away with. And they can only get away with it because of their de-facto monopoly, which should end.