• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    I’m fairly certain every platform offers an SDK with mostly the same things.

    A lot of that stuff is just there to stop users from easily migrating in any case. Making mods only available inside a closed ecosystem so it’s easier to charge for them and grab a cut isn’t actually a good thing for instance.

    There’s also the fact that valve could easily offer all that and only grab like 3%. 90% of the cut is there to cover Gabens new boat purchase, not for the features.

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      I’m fairly certain every platform offers an SDK with mostly the same things.

      Just obectively, factually incorrect.

      Making mods only available inside a closed ecosystem so it’s easier to charge for them and grab a cut isn’t actually a good thing for instance.

      So you’re fed up with NexusMods bullshit too eh?

      Err… were you talking about something else?

      There’s also the fact that valve could easily offer all that and only grab like 3%. 90% of the cut is there to cover Gabens new boat purchase, not for the features.

      Fact? You have detailed access to the internal financial records of a privately held company that is generally not obligated to report them?

      You could be correct, but you’d need to provide… you know, evidence that that is the case.

      I’m not trying to clown on you to be an ass, I’m trying to point out that you just seem to know a bunch of things that are false, that you almost certainly can’t know, that apply equally or moreso to alternatives to Steam/Valve.

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      Gabe doesn’t need to buy new boats, he owns a company that builds them…

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        And he has actually been using his super yacht to do actual ground breaking research on the biology of extremely deep sea creatures.

        Not even joking, that yacht has a deep sea submersible, he bought the shipyard so he could direct the refitting of the super yacht to be able to carry and launch it… they’ve been mapping a trench near Japan, have captured high resolution video and bathymetry… they even appear to have discovered a or maybe a few new species.

        https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/gabe-newell-inkfish-unclassified-ocean-creature/

        I mean yeah, having a super yacht is … pretty extra.

        But, there are certainly worse ways one could be using it.