potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhen we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?message-squaremessage-square172linkfedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1133arrow-down1message-squareWhen we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square172linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareamzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·11 months agoWhy? He takes a 30% cut from every game sale just because his platform has a dominant grasp on gamers. I don’t understand how people can hate taxes (which go on to pay for schools and roads) but not the way larger cut that digital storefronts charge.
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 months agoI don’t want to love him. I just feel like I’d never find anyone better, if I left, you know?
minus-squareamzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoIs this one of those “the ogre has fallen I love with the princess” farquaad meme situations
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoProbably? I’m not even the fucking princess tho?
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoI hate misused taxes. Gabe at least gives us 95% greatness back (5% being gambling)
minus-squareamzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoHe has an 111m superyacht, he is not giving you anything my friend, I’m sorry.
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 months agoProton, nice return policies, the best launcher, disclosure of BS like ML, other launchers, kernel level anticheat. Just a few. Relative to his wealth? No. Relative to others? A lot.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agoThe ability to play almost 100% of my games on my preferred OS is definitely something.
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoPff, I wish my overall taxation was only 30%.
minus-squareyeonalito@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoDevs can just generate keys and sell elsewhere to avoid the 30% cut.
Why? He takes a 30% cut from every game sale just because his platform has a dominant grasp on gamers.
I don’t understand how people can hate taxes (which go on to pay for schools and roads) but not the way larger cut that digital storefronts charge.
I don’t want to love him. I just feel like I’d never find anyone better, if I left, you know?
Is this one of those “the ogre has fallen I love with the princess” farquaad meme situations
Probably? I’m not even the fucking princess tho?
I hate misused taxes.
Gabe at least gives us 95% greatness back (5% being gambling)
He has an 111m superyacht, he is not giving you anything my friend, I’m sorry.
Proton, nice return policies, the best launcher, disclosure of BS like ML, other launchers, kernel level anticheat. Just a few.
Relative to his wealth? No. Relative to others? A lot.
The ability to play almost 100% of my games on my preferred OS is definitely something.
Pff, I wish my overall taxation was only 30%.
Devs can just generate keys and sell elsewhere to avoid the 30% cut.