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  • rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWhats his problem?
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    7 days ago

    The 30% percent cut, stealing money from devs

    This is a pretty spicy take. Let’s consider two possibilities:

    1. Game devs choose to distribute independently, and sell their game for $20. They sell 100,000 copies and make $2 million in revenue, and keep the entire $2 million.

    2. Game devs choose to distribute via Steam, promote it with a 50% off sale, it goes to the Steam front page, sells 500,000 copies at only $10 each, for a total $5 million in revenue. Steam takes $1.5 million and the devs take $3.5 million.

    In scenario 2 the devs make 75% more than in scenario 1. Did Valve steal from the game devs?













  • Which part of that is relevant to the conversation so far?

    To make one criticism of one event isn’t to say that “China bad”. That’s really black and white thinking, and comes off incredibly insecure.

    Not dodging any cult accusations when you would rather take the conversation in a dozen different directions than just admit, “yeah, killing a couple hundred civilians is a massacre”.


  • I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of real videos exist, in which case it would be really easy to condemn them as gross evil western propaganda. It’s easy to condemn Zionist propoganda as gross and evil.

    You know, because I’m not in a weird cult that makes me defend mass murder of civilians.