This kind of “moderation” (read: censoring adult content) is something he doesn’t want.

What does that achieve? Devs/publishers can moderate their Steam forums, and it saves them money and time compared to hosting their own.

People probably think Valve is the “good guy” in the case of refunds because they made it a worldwide policy after the Australia case. Other game platforms have only offered refunds explicitly where required. Hell, PlayStation gets away with no refunds almost anywhere if you’ve downloaded the game.

Steam provides publishers/developers tools to moderate their forums.

It’s crazy that people are genuinely offended by low effort ragebait shovelware.

When the competition (excluding any stores operating at a loss to build marketshare) is charging both developers and gamers more, they’re less bothered about Steam taking 20-30%. Consoles charge 30%, have extra fees, take a cut of third party keys (or restrict them altogether) and require a mandatory subscription for online play/cloud saves, while disallowing third party stores on their hardware.

Other companies do the exact same though, Nintendo controllers don’t support non-Nintendo devices (although they’ve been reverse-engineered for Steam and Linux).

You don’t have to play every game through Steam, switch to the controller action set in desktop mode and and it’ll work as a basic controller for any game.

All of the Steam Controller’s actually distinguishing features wouldn’t work with XInput though. If you’re not interested in that stuff you’d save money going for a basic Xbox controller or third party one.

I imagine it’s like the Deck where desktop mode has 2 modes so you can switch to use it for non-Steam games.

Thank god for Australia, can always rely on them to one-up our stupid vague UK laws.

The worst part is it’s probably started with good intentions, but then they base serious allegations on “media reports point to” and start using it as an excuse for more surveillance and ID verification.

I think the big difference is Valve isn’t really in control of many of the projects they’re funding, they’re mostly just bringing in existing maintainers as contractors and letting them work on what they want.

Chromium on the other hand has always been something Google has explicitly been in direct control of.

Ultimately the EGS has shown 12% is not profitable, a lower cut would be nice for smaller devs but I don’t see why Valve would when every other platform of Steam’s size also takes 30%.

It’s entirely for Fortnite, they bought entire studios like Harmonix and turned them into Fortnite game mode developers.

They’re fully owned by the publisher Nexon.

extra currency to make kids spend more with 100 gems short of your next purchase.

Valve doesn’t do that in their games though?

Small, unique games suitable for a more casual player base made with a lower budget release on Steam every day, isn’t that also a saturated market?

Eh, even if PC/component sales drop to zero, PC will still be the biggest platform with hundreds of millions of active users.

So you paid for them on PS5 but pirated them on PC? Great job telling Sony you don’t want PC versions.

The HDMI forum is made up of those TV manufacturers, so I doubt they’d help push an open standard that’d earn them less.

Minecraft is an infiniminer clone, it should be shut down ASAP.