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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Epic is chasing that because they really want what Valve has, though no doubt they plan to speedrun the enshittification process as soon as they think it safe.

Like what Steam did with Greenlight and the plague of early access asset flips that clogged its home page for years?

[–] stillwater@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greenlight had nothing to do with selling out the end user experience to cash out on providing value and leaving the service near unusable, unless you have some kind of compulsion where you have to buy everything on Steam.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The trading card feature created an ecosystem allowing cheap asset flips to quickly make the threshold. And make their money back, creating a positive feedback loop.

Steam allowed its store to be flooded with these games at the expense of its customers because it got it's cut.

[–] pkpenguin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've never understood this complaint because it takes no effort at all to just ignore these games

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Do you think they wanted it to be abused? It's pretty obvious they didn't like the way it went which is why they got rid of it...