Don't buy games from people who hate you: Hooded Horse.
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Steam is not pro consumer LOL
It is the only marketplace that allows negative reviews. EGS and GoG don't have reviews at all. It has a 2 week, 2 hours played no questions asked return policy, EGS and GOG don't do that. It allows you to block entire publishers so that you never get shown their games. Tim Sweeny would have an anurysm if one of his code monkeys came to him with that idea. Steam marks all games that use GenAI in their making. EGS has stated that all games will use GenAI if they get their way. Steam has a functioning friends list, and discussion board all games, EGS doesn't. Steam Workshop makes modding games trivial.
Steam is pro consumer because they want your money and want you to be happy with their service, instead of all the hyperpredatory shit EGS does, like allow cryptogame scams.
GoG has a 30 day refund policy even for games that have been played for any length of time during those 30 days. I believe it is the most permissive refund policy for any of the digital storefronts, by far.
They also have reviews and allow honest negative ones. Disco Elysium has some gems in there with titles like 'I don't support Communists' or "Devs are Marxist - DEFUND SOCIALISTS"
Their review system is trash & frequently crashes, GOG Galaxy is also a bloated, unstable piece of shit.
30% of sale price is obscene, period.
The storefront cut has not one thing to do with the consumer.
It's a complete non sequitur and evidence you're dealing with someone that believes in Labor Theory of Value.
Remember the Ubisoft Store?
Remember Battle.net?
Remember Origin?
Many publishers have tried making their own boutique storefronts to get away from le ebil Steam's grotesque 30% margin. Every single one of them crawled back to Gabe eventually. Guess 70% of sales revenue is better than ZERO.
It's standard. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Nintendo all charge 30%. For that matter most retail has a markup of 50% to 100%.
Its still too much.
And retail has store, shoplifting, cashier etc to pay. Steam/apple/msft have nothing.
for what matters, AAA negotiate lower rates with epic/steam/etc. Of course other game devs don't hve this right.
Steam at least lets you sell on other platforms with 0% cut, I'll give them that however.
Every successful storefront takes a similar cut. The only difference is Steam empowering consumers with open user reviews. Epic is welcome to match Steam's feature set while charging a smaller percentage, so why doesn't that happen?
Steam doesnt give a shit about you. Stop drinking the kool aid. Cmon man.
It does? They charge a lot less for indie publishers, and a lot of them moved to epic or microsoft to avoid exactly that problem
That’s on the publishers, not the consumers.
Again, tell us how Steam is no pro-customer?
No. Read my other replies.
Like that matters to the user.
Well games are more expensive, and less g oes to developer
If you buy the game directly from the developers, they earn more money.
What do you call this then?
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https://archive.is/FZZii
I stand corrected, GOG has reviews. In my defense, i haven't bought a game on there since Sseth reviewed MM6-7-8, which was 5 years ago.
When's the last time you used GoG? They have public reviews very clearly under every game. It's not hidden or hard to find. There are several games with nothing but negative reviews.