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  • If they took the first step and worked towards, or remained, independent and selfpublished, that would make it a bit easier.

    But Bethesda, Obsidian, InXile and even Blizzard couldn’t sell their asses to Microsoft fast enough once the offer was on the table.

    I get you want to support the Devs, but they kinda made their choice. They had independence, some quite successfully, but they sold it.

    Maybe it’s time to look for new studios to support and help up to contest with the old buggers?



  • Probably because Valve doesn’t make games anymore. Not on any serious level anyway.

    Most of their games are old as hell, and most of them where in the “proof of concept” relm. They only really made games to push the technology they were working with.

    It’d be a poor argument to bring up their old catalog of games from 20 years ago as something that made them a worse company today.


  • It’s about more than just taking a 30% cut of sales. Everyone agrees that it’s a high price. So what else might the potential competition do that make them stand out as worse than Valve?

    Also, overworked and underpaid Devs are a different matter. You have look at their Publishers about that. I believe Valves Devs are quite well paid and far from overburdened.