alessandroIn 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there
echo64What’s the efficiency in taking 30% of almost all game sales on a platform? I know we all love valve, but the efficiency here is having a store that everyone has to use if they want to make sales at all.
Chefdano3Which is exactly what Apple does with their iTunes store.
olicvbNot exactly, apple forces their users to use their stores whereas Valve just offers a better experience than the other stores out there. There is nothing stopping you from using other stores to buy your games on.
That has no impact on both of them taking a 30% cut.
0xDIn the case of Steam that’s because no other corpo run by parasites can create anything close to it. You’re completely free to get any other launcher or store that takes a smaller cut.
And now is where your misguided comparison completely falls apart: Apple users have no other choice than the AppStore. Even if someone wanted to create a better store, they just can’t.