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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly in c/[email protected]

[–] pkpenguin 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a lot like saying YouTube is evil for allowing anyone to upload videos to their platform

Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly in c/[email protected]

[–] pkpenguin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is still easily verifiably untrue in practice. Go to isthereanydeal and you'll see verified, approved Steam key retailers running sales for under the Steam price on hundreds of games literally every day. Humble offers a global discount on all keys in their store if you're s subscriber, undercutting virtually every Steam page. That's not to mention the bundles they sell which regularly cut hundreds of dollars of keys down to a few bucks.

Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly in c/[email protected]

[–] pkpenguin 4 points 1 year ago

I've never understood this complaint because it takes no effort at all to just ignore these games