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People get real salty about Steam's monopoly.
And of course anything short of picking one camp and saying they did nothing wrong, vis-a-vis Gaza.
Oh, and not being a tankie on ML. I'm not looking that shit up. Half of it's removed by mod for honesty about Russia or China, and the other half involves people I should have blocked much sooner. (Alright, this exchange was amusing.)
Wading into the GameStop cult was fun.
Wait no I found my lowest total score: MOBA players screeching about what they'd like to pretend I said.
The steam this is really funny when you realize they were the first to popularize the idea of an App Store and being a middleman.
Previously there were many "stores" but they only listed apps and left it up to the developer to distribute and handled the payment system.
There were separate payment providers that took a cut but nothing approaching 30%, it was often a flat fee plus 2-3% to cover the credit card processing cost.
Steam created the app industry and somehow Apple takes all the heat.
The only thing Apple added was an option to charge as little as $1. The fee on those independent providers was $1+ by itself.
Still no idea what the fuck happened here.
Or in the follow-up about it.