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Mewtwo59 posted...

Developers don't deserve respect with the stuff they've been pulling the last couple years. Treating their consumers as walking ATMs is terrible.

Buy their games for a one-time $100 purchase then. Then this wouldn't be a problem.

But that will never happen. Look at how disgusted you felt just seeing "$100 " and "game" in the same sentence. But that's what it takes to make the games you demand.

When you say Steam is pro-consumer, what you mean is it lets you demand $100 games and only pay $15 for them. You see that as a grand service bringing games to you for cheap. But you forget that of that $100 that the dev is asking from you, Steam demands $30. If Steam were truly pro-consumer, they would have a 0% cut, and the dev could sell you the game for $70 straight up. But 30% of $15 is more money in Gaben's pocket than 0% of $100, so Steam pressures devs to put their game on sale, and it pressures gamers to NOT support the work that they love.

The result is an industry where even the biggest games need to squeeze their players for charity donations through microtransactions to survive, and the smaller games literally can't exist at all.

If you like games, how does that help you?

Steam has such a huge potential to improve the gaming industry by making developing and selling a game far less risky, rewarding quality games far better, supporting niche/indie games that could not have been made otherwise, infusing a ton more cash into the ecosystem. But instead they just sit back, take their 30%, and watch while fewer and fewer quality games get made each year. And gamers like you worship them for it.
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