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Mewtwo59 posted...

Plus there's the fact that most games just aren't worth full price.

This is what causes microtransactions. Steam's cut influences that but like I said, it's their culture of race-to-the-bottom pricing along with gamers who absolutely hate giving money people to the people who make the games they supposedly love. A $60 game 20 years ago is $100 today. That's what it comes down to. If you refuse to pay $60 up front, then they HAVE to make that up somewhere else.

Consoles take the same cut but give WAY more in return, not to mention the actual hardware they designed to run the game in the first place. That's why devs don't complain about that as much. Although it still has the issues with $60 base game. A smaller cut would work there too obviously.

Steam is another story though. They barely do anything for devs OR players, and all the good stuff they have done (linux, social features) they don't give a shit about vs selling more hats. Their entire value is they are old and thus have a lot of users. They are the facebook of games.

And they are trying to make the base price of games $15, which I'm gonna repeat in case you still don't get it, is NOT enough to fund a $100 game.
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