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@ciggy2biggy @quantM364 Rawr

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@RoseGoldMamba @NosyBITCH6 @quantM364 Nobody wants to be retarted worthless trailer trash fag. Fuck off and cry like a bitch and block me like the other bitch did.

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@ryrycmcm @ksharpsoul @Pzn2OvAEKf68934 @nufylf @Flahh_0 This trailer trash thinks calling someone nigger is an own. The niggers already replaced most of you fucking retarted and worthless trailer trash so how about you shut the fuck up and go back to being the fucking cuck worthless bitch you are

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@NosyBITCH6 @RoseGoldMamba @quantM364 Listen American bitch it was the other American bitch tryna tell me how to talk shit. I know you trailer trash are undereducated and retarted but don't be this obvious about it

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@RoseGoldMamba @quantM364 Loser trying to tell me rules of engagement now. Just fuck off quietly dumb bitch.

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@FNazis87944 @RoseGoldMamba @quantM364 So you are a weak pathetic bitch that just likes to talk shit. Not surprised. That's your entrie country you fucking worthless piece of shit yank.

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@RoseGoldMamba @quantM364 He took control of my country and I couldn't do shit is not the come back you think it is. Do you wanna posture strength or being a pathetic weak bitch?

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@looman6445 @quantM364 American slave goy thinks he can talk big?

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@HiddenHasuta @quantM364 Retarted trailer trash, anime pfp, checkmark. You only needed a condom. No need to gatekeep your entire bloodline from women

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@AlexJChipman @quantM364 See we know you trailer trash are undereducated and retarted but you don't have to drive that home in your shitty pickup fucking poorfag yank

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@RoseGoldMamba @quantM364 Yeah and we don't put pedos to lead the country like you retarded worthless fucking yanks

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@ladiesman217_57 @quantM364 Fuck off retarted white trash American piece of worthless shit

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@ciggy2biggy @quantM364 Who asked your trailer trash low iq for a take fucking worthless American bitch

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@PaulWescot @PatchPlagueDoc This fucking retard thinks you need your own launcher. You being fucking monumentally low iq and fucking retarted is why you should off yourself worthless dumb bitch

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@CptNibbleswrth @nufylf @Flahh_0 Don't you got a school shooting to get shot at retarded trailer trash American bitch?

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@JonathanBridwe2 @nufylf @Flahh_0 Take your low iq back to your farmland fucking worthless trailer trash American

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@ksharpsoul Jobless anime fag had so much nothing to do you decided to be mad at Twitter randos because your small poorfag ego was hurt. Fuck off retarted white trash American piece of shit

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You'll never guess where this doofus works

[Kiaran Ritchie @kiaran_ritchie]

I'm gonna spell this out because this issue is deceptively subtle:

1. The Steam client and infrastructure is somewhere between "not that hard" and "trivial". It's a download service attached to a payment processor with a smattering of services on the side. Cloud providers handle all the infrastructure these days.

2. Steam takes 30% of gross revenue; ostensibly for the privilege of using these services, but in reality it is purely to get access to the massive Steam userbase.

3. Steam users love Steam and having their whole library in one place. It works. It's dependable. It has sales and cards and achievements, oh my!

4. PC developers have no option but to distribute through Steam or lose the vast majority of sales. Not releasing on Steam destroys the business model.

5. Therefore, no amount of competition will ever unseat Steam. People post-hoc rationalize this with memes about how gracious Gabe is. And how brilliant their services are. But realistically, no avid Steam user wants other stores to succeed.

The mere existence of other stores risks splintering their precious collection. They are "all in" on Steam. Invested.

Even if an alternative were objectively better, by whatever metric you care about, it would still be of no interest to Steam users. They would in fact find it to be a problem and a threat to their investment.

Competition in this space is not only uninteresting to most Steam users, it's actively denigrated!

The CONSEQUENCE of this situation, is that 30% of all gross revenue is siphoned out of the PC games industry into a black hole.

It doesn't recirculate into studios.

It doesn't pay any bonuses.

It doesn't fund any sequels or DLC.

This is a particularly insidious tax because it's well hidden. It's a second order effect. Most Steams users don't know, and the few that do never consider the aggregate effect this has on their favorite hobby.

It's undeniable that, at this point in history, Valve could EASILY lower the distribution fee while maintaining healthy margins. But they don't have to.

Users are locked into Steam and therefore developers are stuck paying 30% of gross revenue to Valve.

The irony is that Steam users, the very ones maintaining this unbreakable stalemate, would benefit the most from a better financed game development ecosystem.

I don't think this is fixable. It's just sad.

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@ksharpsoul @nufylf @Flahh_0 Lol another retard showed up to defend it's colonized bitch

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@ksharpsoul @Pzn2OvAEKf68934 @nufylf @Flahh_0 It's not my problem you American white trash are poorfags lol. Get a job worthless loser