• ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    And Valve has other bills to pay, servers to run, employees to pay. Software to develop, did you think all of these great features Steam has were free to develop? Incidentally, remember when Valve released their in house animation software for free when people asked to buy it?

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      8 months ago

      did you think all of these great features Steam has were free to develop?

      No, just that they cost substantially less than the insane profits they’re making, and they could very easily afford to do all the same things with half the revenue, enabling actual developers to make more and better games.