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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Never bought anything there and probably never will, but I'm always there every thursday to get the free games. Heavy gog and steam user, and gamepass subscriber.

[–] mindbleach 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Steam has a de-facto monopoly, no matter how soft or ethical you think their control is. They are simply the outlet for buying PC games.

Which would be fine, if they didn't take an entire fucking third of revenue, up-front, like locked-down consoles and greedy smartphone platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

While its undeniable the control steam has on the market. I think people forget you can self publish your games with some decent success (at least for those who rise to the top). Hell some of the largest games in the indie scene these days started that way (Minecraft, Factorio, Rimworld, Tarkov, etc). It just Steam has one of the largest userbases and to get into that garden you have the 30% price to pay. I will say people sort of ignore many of the benefits that Valve/steam provide. Hell steam input, steamvr, remote play, proton, steamdrm, etc. Many of these are so powerful that many people just piggyback off of these things indirectly. Like there is nothing physically stopping users from switching to GOG, Origins, Uplay, Epic store besides most of them are just shittier versions of steam (except GOG, where there is something novel reason why it exists)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you guys think e.g. YouTube or redshit is profitable despite of what they say and without "profit" that's pumped in by investors or mother companies?
it's just a business,
They get market share by loosing profit then once they are establish enough so most people won't leave if they change things and they change things and start to make profit.
At least that's the plan.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Google's goal with YouTube was never profit. Had it been YT would end up on Google graveyard long time ago. They are looking for market dominance with video streaming which in turn provides a lot of useful data for mining. Ads are there to curb price of whole ordeal a bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean, it’s trying to compete against Steam. A platform which has 99% of the games ever released on PC after its inception at the same price and with a great interface.

You’re not winning against that unless you actually sell the same games at a lower price (and I don’t think they can afford to do that)

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[–] MartinXYZ 5 points 2 years ago

I wonder if GOG is profitable?

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