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PedroEglasias t1_ixcjdfe wrote

lol they've realised the cut Valve takes for covering all the bandwidth and storage requirements to allow customers to download games indefinitely was actually pretty fair...

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tickettoride98 t1_ixcsf9y wrote

More like they realized they were losing a lot of sales by not being on Steam. This isn't about the 30% cut being "fair", it's about Steam being such a behemoth you can't afford not to be on it.

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PedroEglasias t1_ixcsthb wrote

The costs of bandwidth and storage on geographically distributed mirrors, and allowing customers to download as many times as they want, forever, would be very high.

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Lhumierre t1_ixfqv7d wrote

Especially population, Division 2 has endangered species level of people playing.

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