potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoWhen we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?message-squaremessage-square173linkfedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1133arrow-down1message-squareWhen we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square173linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareamzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·26 days 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-up12·26 days 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-up9·26 days agoIs this one of those “the ogre has fallen I love with the princess” farquaad meme situations
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·26 days agoProbably? I’m not even the fucking princess tho?
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·26 days agoI hate misused taxes. Gabe at least gives us 95% greatness back (5% being gambling)
minus-squareamzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·26 days agoHe has an 111m superyacht, he is not giving you anything my friend, I’m sorry.
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up16·26 days 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-up11·26 days agoThe ability to play almost 100% of my games on my preferred OS is definitely something.
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoPff, I wish my overall taxation was only 30%.
minus-squarecaoimhinr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 days 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.