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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Valve doesn’t force you to buy games on their platform like Epic does.

You can use GOG and Itch.io instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just because there are other distribution channels doesn’t mean that valve doesn’t have that market stitched up. Their profitability is a function of being a monopoly. It isn’t like their client or anything is revolutionary.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I disagree as their client is the most feature rich one available and it’s not Valve’s fault that the competition shoots itself in the foot too often. Show me one example where Valve bought out competitor stores.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They're monopoly only because all of their competitors fail to capture the audience. You might as well say Water is monopolizing hydration.