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Study finds 72% of Developers View Steam as Monopoly [from the overall pool, 75% of respondents were senior managers] (steamdeckhq.com)

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[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Gamers have good reason to love Valve for Steam alone -- not even accounting for their amazing games. They really do have the best gamer-oriented platform, and seemingly they care about gamers. I think they've done a lot to advance gaming on linux as well which is much appreciated.

But, at least the way I see it, they still extract rents from game devs to an almost feudal degree.

"Sure -- come sell your ~~grain~~ game -- but you'll have to give me a third of your profit because I own the ~~town square~~ platform/servers."

Side note: It's pretty funny that for a while Valve had Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis on staff to analyze spontaneously emerging markets for digital items on Steam -- and he went on to write about the phenomenon above in his recent book Technofeudalism.

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