I’m not paying $80 for this game.

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    1 year ago

    Yep, correct. Steam and Gog charge a provision of 30% on every sale.
    Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo als charge this 30% on Top of that they chage a toll for releasing your game. And they charge you if you want to play online with the console you already payed.

    Epic is not a good comparison here because they are subsidized by chinese money.

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      Tencent is a very prolific investor as has been pointed out. The way this is phrased also comes across a bit xenophobic. Please keep that in mind when commenting further. Thanks

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        1 year ago

        Sorry mate.
        I did not intend to be xenophibic.

        Let’s just state that the money comes from the same un- democratic country that also brought us Tiktok

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      1 year ago

      You know all these companies have investments from the same Chinese company, right?