They are forcefully dropping store cuts to unsustainable levels because they are trying to destroy any and all competition, similar to what Uber was doing for taxi services.
Unsustainable ?
First of there is 0 reason to think that it is "unsustainable" much like 30% cut was never about sustainability but showing enough cut to out-compete normal stores which charged usually 50%. But unlike normal stores which need to rent places, hire people, have distribution channel, spend money on PR and shitload of other stuff Velve which is the biggest game distributor right now barely hires enough people to cover even few Gamestop stores.
So no 12% is perfectly sustainable. Velve outside of hiring few hundred people, renting servers and bandwidth doesn't have huge costs like whole Gamestop chain. Somehow Gamestop while battered by unsustainable 30% steam and other digital platforms cut still survives.
Free market is free market. It means either you fight or you die. If those are not sustainable for them then they should do something about it, fire people, restructure their business and so on. Would you also argue that 30% is unsustainable compared to normal shops 40-50% cut ?
You never ask if Walmart potatoes prices are "unsustainable" for smaller shops because you know it is dumb argument.
That is what competition does. This is what Uber does, this is what every company that wants to compete does. They find a way to profit in way other don't and make it business.
IF Velve can't compete they can fill for bankrupcy like in normal market.
They are limiting consumer choice and completely removing third party stores from the equation. They are raising game prices in many cases because, again, no competition.
Sure if you call walking from store 5m away "limit". Also Metro dropped price instead of rised so idk where you get those arguments about rising prices. More competition means less expensive stuff. Much like we went from 60$ every game to 5$ games.
If Epic takes only 12% cut then sooner or later game will be cheaper on Epic store because this is how market operates.
Why would you buy Game A which costs 60$ when you can buy Game B which costs 50$ ?
Their client is feature starved, accounts are getting hacked left and right and there are some very valid privacy concerns. And while knowing all this, they are trying to force people to use their client instead of working on getting better.
Well Steam forces me to use steam if i want to play steam games. Surprise ?
Every other store has issues including Steam. Yes i see only Epic store "issues" which means this is more of people fanboing over issues trying to prove Epic store is bad rather than giving any shit about what they write about.
They aren't financing games, they are bribing publishers.
And ? You do realize it is not Epic that forces developers to skip Steam but developers themselves deciding that Steam release is simply not worth it considering Epic deal ?
Aka Epic competes with Steam and developers decide that Steam is not worth to release on.
You see he does care. He cares enough to not support a storefront which snatches games a month or week later from release from his preferred store and turning it to an exclusive. That's pretty much the narrative here.....
Any normal human when he sees his favorite toothbrush becoming wallmart exclusive would go to walmart and buy it. Somehow games are apparently different. Because it is really really really important to buy your game in store of your choosing.
It doesn't make sense that store takes precedence over product and kind of shown that competition is bad place in PC sphere.
That comment was not aimed at your specifically or even limited to GAF.
Neither my answer was to you precisely.
