Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"
finance.yahoo.com
UK courts recently ruled that the trial can move forward
  • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    That’s disingenuous. They do a lot more than that.

    Discovery for one. Hosting the game so that downloads are fast and paying for the server and network infrastructure for that. Handling payment processing from all around the world.

    That all has a cost. And any developer can just drop the installer on their own website and pay all of these things themselves.